Sentences with phrase «great majority of subjects»

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The vast movement of religious revival which took place in the fifth century of the Hijrah (eleventh century A.D.) and led to the establishment of the Almoravid dynasty in Morocco and Spain gave a strong impetus to the spread of Islam among the subjects of the great pagan African Ghana Empire, whose sway extended at one time over the gold mines of the Upper Senegal and over the majority of the Berber tribes of the Sahara.

We call on Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford and Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to explain why small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms are to be subjected to greater scrutiny and compliance costs than cattle feedlots, instead of being treated under the law like other grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.

They had been persuaded that the bill should be subjected to greater scrutiny and debate, given the overwhelming opposition of the vast majority of medical professionals, legal experts, patient advocacy groups and respected charities,

To make the task manageable, the first round of the process consists of discarding the great majority of candidates on the basis of two quantifiable, and therefore supposedly objective, standards: grade point average and GRE scores, including those in specific subject matter tests.

Results showed that the ratio of senescent to naïve T cells changed favorably in the majority of participants, with most of the study subjects regaining greater numbers of the naïve variety.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

The Claim Your College coalition has received extraordinary interest from the great majority of teachers consulted alongside unions, subject associations, universities, school improvement organisations, third sector organisations and others across the education sector.

While completing their professional practical experience, the majority of respondents reported being exposed to schools that did not value the arts, instead placing greater emphasis on other academic subjects.

Those are by far the exception; the vast majority of charter schools are boosting student performance, encouraging greater parental involvement, increasing teacher satisfaction, and broadening the curriculum with classes such as music and art without sacrificing core subjects.

But DRM - protected titles are still subject to piracy, and we believe a great majority of readers are just as against piracy as publishers are, understanding that piracy impacts on an author's ability to earn an income from their creative work.

Just a note: While I do prefer «subject matter I love but with poorer story writing or telling» books to books with «subject matter I hate but with great writing and storytelling», I have to admit that the VAST MAJORITY of the former type of books I loved were page - turners to me, or at least were almost never boring.

Aristotle and Isaac Newton ridiculed the possibility of comets, and the great majority of Amercian academics boycotted the Macmillan's textbooks in order to suppress Immanuel Velikovsky's exquisitely reasoned and meticulously documented theory that Earth had been subjected to catastrophic near collisions with Venus and Mars between 1500 and 700 BC.

You ask some great questions, and the answers are the subject of much ongoing research as the majority (but not all) of the climate models looking at the decline in Arctic sea ice from anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing did not forsee the extremely rapid decline we've seen.

«In short, on the basis of all the evidence submitted to the Committee to date, and subject to our comments below about the possibility of bringing a further count, we can not, with great regret, accept Justice Girouard's version of the facts,» the majority of the inquiry committee wrote regarding what happened in the video between Girouard and Lamontagne.

The majority of the factual subject matter involved Russia and the great bulk of evidence would have to come from Russian witnesses.