And a very, very tiny proportion of supporters at one point.
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Numerically, Communists were a tiny proportion of the larger Jewish community.
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Sustainable funds currently only make up a tiny proportion of the American market.
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As a result, only a tiny proportion of people with behavioral disabilities became housed.
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O'Leary counters that a "tiny proportion" of its advantage over rivals is due to staff costs.
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Of the 1,400 papyri, a tiny proportion are medical texts, most of which have remained untranslated.
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We can intend, at best, only a tiny proportion of the effects of any of our actions.
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So even if family court is screwing fathers over, it's a tiny proportion of the custody issue.
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A tiny proportion of women – 4 percent – said they thought the experience would actually help her chances of winning.
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This affects a very tiny proportion of psychedelic users, and less users of this proportion report troubling effects with it.
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These used to be know as "orphan drugs" because they applied to a tiny proportion of the public with rare conditions.
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Such businesses represent a tiny proportion of Tesco's forecast revenue in 2015-16 of more than 55 billion pounds ($78 billion).
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In Amazon's statement to Planet Money, the spokesperson also states that private labels account for a "tiny" proportion of Amazon's business.
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The tiny proportion of candidates that pass an exam are invited to present a viva: a spoken explanation of their answers.
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"Is this a teeny-tiny proportion of the population, or is this something the average family doctor better learn about?" he asked.
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Healthy folk do not notice this lack of co-ordination (only a tiny proportion of people have accessed their GP records online).
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Fund managers argue that the steel and aluminum on which the U.S. has announced tariffs are a tiny proportion of China's exports.
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Best of the best But for would-be horse breeders there's a catch: only a tiny proportion of race horses become successful stallions.
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Of the billions of online searches for pornography that occur around the world each month, those involving children account for just a tiny proportion.
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The International Development Committee (IDC), a parliamentary committee, said it was concerned about the "tiny proportion" of contracts won by suppliers in developing countries.
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Diversity VC found that a tiny proportion of the top decision-makers at investment firms were women, and many firms have zero female representation.
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"On long-haul, crewing is a tiny proportion of the cost, compared to the fuel and the capital cost of the equipment," he added.
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At their peak, both companies employed about 1,200 workers, only a tiny proportion of the solar industry's total employment of more than 260,85033 workers.
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Bytedance said users flagged only a tiny proportion of TikTok videos, showing that a "very minuscule" proportion of its content was considered inappropriate or obscene.
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For many large carriers like American Airlines Group Inc and China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, the 737 MAX a tiny proportion of the total fleet.
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The judges hear appeals from federal district courts and usually have the final say, as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up only a tiny proportion of cases.
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FLEET PAIN For many large carriers like American Airlines Group Inc and China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, the 737 MAX a tiny proportion of the total fleet.
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Among the thousands of fatal police shootings between 2005 and mid-13, a tiny proportion—just 54—resulted in official charges, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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For a scrap of fabric worn by a tiny, tiny proportion of British women, the face veil has attracted a disproportionate amount of attention over the years.
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Hydroelectric accounts for less than 10 percent of Japan's electricity supply and geothermal almost nothing, while nuclear contributed nearly a third before Fukushima but a tiny proportion now.
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Fewer than 700 cases have been reported in other countries and even within China the epidemic is affecting "a very tiny, tiny, tiny proportion of people," Ryan said.
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Fewer than 700 cases have been reported in other countries and even within China the epidemic is affecting "a very tiny, tiny, tiny proportion of people," Ryan said.
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"The doping scandal involves a tiny proportion even of the elite field but for most of the runners it's a day of personal achievement and celebration," he said.
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The central bank, which declined to comment, is unlikely to sell off its gold holdings, while its Swiss franc investments make up only a tiny proportion of the total.
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But research by EMW, a commercial law firm, showed that between April 2016 and March 2017, just 8,700 new parents took advantage of the new laws — a tiny proportion.
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The 331 kilograms (730 pounds) on board the British-owned Pacific Egret is only a tiny proportion of the nearly 50 tonnes (55 tons) of plutonium held by Japan.
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He said just 40,000 donums (10,000 hectares) of wheat and barley had been destroyed by fire nationwide, a tiny proportion of the estimated 313 million donums of cultivated land.
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Estimates say that perhaps a few hundred Indonesians — a tiny proportion, but a concerning number on its own — have left Indonesia to go fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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The right-hand chart shows that only a tiny proportion of funds investing in UK equities (like the Woodford fund) have beaten the market over periods from one to 2560 years.
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In doing so, these sales figures illuminate the fact that despite there being millions of Directioners worldwide, only a tiny proportion of them ended up supporting Zayn as a solo artist.
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These made up only a tiny proportion of the millions of tests that Theranos ran, but there are concerns that patients may nonetheless have been harmed by receiving the wrong test results.
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Domestic mask manufacturers, which account for a tiny proportion of the U.S. market, have warned for years about potential disruptions in the supply of foreign produced masks during a global infectious outbreak.
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The roughly 10 million Uighurs make up a tiny proportion of China&aposs almost 1.4 billion people and there has never been an insurgency that could challenge the central government&aposs overwhelming might.
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While the number of B Corps is growing it is still a tiny proportion of the 27.5 million businesses in Europe, or about 5.9 million in the United States, according to government data.
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It's a little because the volume of speech on the internet is so vast that one rather expects even the tiny proportion of it constituting hate speech to add up to millions and millions.
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Amazon has seen a rise in violation reports since 2009, according to documents from the U.S. Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, although the reports cover a tiny proportion of the packages Amazon ships each year.
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Despite being the world's largest auto producer, and having made slow progress building cars for foreign brands like Ford and selling them abroad, China still exports only a tiny proportion of the vehicles it makes.
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Babis has said he opposes even a modest pledge by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's government to accept 80 Syrian migrants, a tiny proportion of the millions fleeing the civil war there, from a Turkish camp.
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Aid in dying, it should be noted, may be a vehemently debated issue, with campaigns that can involve thousands of participants and millions of dollars — but it ultimately has affected a tiny proportion of people.
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Ireland's mushroom industry, the fifth largest in the EU, has an annual production worth only about 120 million euros, a tiny proportion of the country's 243 billion euro gross domestic product, and employs about 3,500 workers.
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The city of Yinchuan, in northwestern China, is the capital of Ningxia, a tiny lozenge of land that accounts for just half a per cent of China's population and a similarly tiny proportion of its landmass.
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For example, the percentage of drivers charged with driving more than 40 miles per hour above the speed limit nearly doubled (though it remained a tiny proportion of the total), to 2 percent of all violations.
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At the time, Liberty senior Dustin Wahl expressed concerns to Vox over the division between Liberty's leadership and its student ethos, pointing out that a tiny proportion of Liberty students voted for Trump in the Republican primaries.
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Up to now, GYG has sold some 200,000 places on its Originals tours — which is actually a tiny proportion of business, when you consider that the number of tours booked through the platform has passed 25 million.
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To do this in others, exact match donors would have to be found in the tiny proportion of people — most of them of northern European descent — who have the CCR5 mutation that makes them resistant to the virus.
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The data for 22017 showed that investment in these solutions was still a tiny proportion - just 210% - of total finance for electricity access and stood at $2300 million in 2017, with Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda garnering 56% of that.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The banks that will advise and execute Saudi Aramco's stock market listing are expected to share a tiny proportion of the $2382 billion Riyadh hopes to raise in its initial public offering, according to banking sources and industry insiders.
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Given the tiny proportion of coffee-based oil in the bus fuel, there was no immediate, empirical indication that the noisome whiff of central London's air would turn into the alluring aroma of, say, a Roman cafe, or even a Starbucks.
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This is a last resort, cherry-picked appeal layer that will only touch a fantastically tiny proportion of the content choices Facebook moderators make every second of every day — and from which real world impacts ripple out and rain down.
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"Although bulk personal datasets constitute only a tiny proportion of the data GCHQ obtains, its retention and use of such datasets represent a significant interference with many people's right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)," reads one document.
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GENEVA, May 16 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday welcomed a $5 million donation from Microsoft Corp and called on the rest of the private sector, which makes up only a tiny proportion of its donors, to "step up to the plate".
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Trade data provided by the International Trade Centre, a U.N.-WTO joint venture, showed Japan accounted for a tiny proportion of India's mobile phone imports, valued at $13 million in 2011 and $43 million in 2012, but less than $2 million in all other years in the past decade.
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"If we are very, very diligent in both communicating exactly what the restrictions are and actually have an efficient process to deal with the situation, I don't suggest it will have an impact on numbers," Dubai Airports Chief Executive Paul Griffiths told DubaiEye radio, adding that a "very tiny proportion" may choose to switch airlines.
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At which critical point it flips the usual crisis PR switch and sends in a few token clean up teams — who scrub a tiny proportion of terrible content; or take down a tiny number of fake accounts; or indeed make a few token and heavily publicized gestures — before leaning heavily on civil society (and on users) to take the real strain.
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Don't trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users NewsGuard, which is Steve Brill's effort to get platforms to pay his company to rate the credibility of news sources, signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate into its Edge web browser: Edge has a tiny proportion of the global internet browser market and the NewsGuard plug-in is only included on the version for mobile users, not desktop users.
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Even that considered, it is still only a very tiny proportion of the current 15,000,000 population (0.7%).
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In a tiny proportion of patients, treatment failure is a reflection of extreme biological variation and no cause is found.
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As a result, even within its well-established range, T. atratulum is very scarce, with only a tiny proportion of Tetramorium sp. colonies playing host to this parasite.
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These speciality beers have a tiny proportion of the market, but are of interest to connoisseurs worldwide. London porter differs from stout in having generally lower gravity and lighter body, closer to bitter. Porter as distinct from stout virtually disappeared during the mid-20th century, but has had a modest revival since the 1980s (e.g. Dark Star Original, Fuller's London Porter).
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The archaeological evidence for Christianity in Roman Britain is not extensive, but is needed to determine the extent of the religion in this period. Determining whether an item was used in Christian or pagan symbolism and usage is not always straightforward, with the interpretation of such items often being speculative. This Christian material represents a "tiny proportion" of archaeological material recovered from Roman Britain.
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Psychiatric mental health nurses are also involved in the administration of the treatment of electroconvulsive therapy and assist with the preparation and recovery from the treatment, which involves anesthesia. This treatment is only used in a tiny proportion of cases and only after all other possible treatments have been exhausted. A patients consent to receive the treatment must be established and defended by the nurse.
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Steven Runciman thought that only a "tiny proportion" and Joshua Prawer only some "pitiful remnants" of the original army arrived in the Holy Land. Recent studies suggest that the number was substantial but shy of a majority. Of the 92 named individuals who took the crusader vow in Villehardouin's account, between 23 and 26 of them went to the Holy Land. The rate of "desertion" seems highest among the French faction.
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The Baloch are the majority ethnic inhabitants of the region of Balochistan in Iran. They speak the Rakhshani and Sarawani dialects of Balochi, an Iranian language. They mainly inhabit mountainous terrains, which have allowed them to maintain a distinct cultural identity and resist domination by neighbouring rulers. The Baloch are predominantly Muslim, with the vast majority belonging to the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, but there is also tiny proportion of Shia in Balochistan.
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Due to the proxy server implementation of the IWF's child abuse image content list (formally Cleanfeed) system, websites that filter users by IP address, such as wikis and file lockers, will be significantly broken,"Six UK ISP’s block a Wikipedia article locking out Wikipedia edits", Paul Nikkel, BitterWallet, 7 December 2008. "Anonymous editing from your Internet Provider is disabled, please log in." Retrieved 1 December 2013.Internet Watch Foundation - Unintended_effects even if only a tiny proportion of its content is flagged.
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Total annual opium intercepts by the Iranian authorities are larger than in any other country. The Iranian government admits that they can only intercept a tiny proportion of the thousands of tonnes that are trafficked through Iran every year. Opium costs far less in Iran than in the West, and is cheaper than beer. In Zahedan, an Iranian town near the Pakistani border, 3 grams of opium can be purchased for 10,000 Iranian rials, equivalent to $1 USD, and 1 kg costs the equivalent of $330.
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She served on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West, and founded what became the Women’s Committee within that Guild. The Committee compiled the first statistical survey of the number of women writers working in network television. The survey found that in the 1973 season, only a tiny proportion of scripts were written by women. Shortly thereafter, women’s committees were formed in the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild, which worked in concert to improve opportunities for women in film and television.
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Her thesis results showed that great tits actually captured a tiny proportion of the caterpillar population, amongst other things. As an early research scientist she was one of few women in a male dominated department. However she went on to have a long academic career and conducted further post-doctoral studies on tits, obtaining a second five-year grant from the Agricultural Research Council. Turner then worked on the Nature Conservancy funded Breckland Research Project with John Gibb on tits and their prey in the Breckland pine woods in the east of England.
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With the worldwide demand for this staple food, pasta is now largely mass-produced in factories and only a tiny proportion is crafted by hand. Pasta was originally solely a part of Italian and European cuisine. With an increase in popularity on a worldwide scale, pasta has crossed international borders and is now a popular form of fast food and a staple in North America and elsewhere. This is due to the great amount of Italian immigration into Canada and the United States around the beginning of the 20th century.
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As the price of a commodity is the average cost of production, it includes the fact that a tiny proportion of commodities may be found, although finding goods is hardly typical of modern manufacturing processes. Marginal utility as the source of value meant that the perceived need for an object was seen to be dictating the value, on an individual rather than a general level. The implication was that the individual mind is the source of economic value. Although Menger accepted the marginal utility theory, he made deviations from the work of other neoclassical pioneers.
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Tifinagh (or rather, Neo-Tifinagh) was introduced in the late 1990s and its use is now supported by the Moroccan authorities, in a standardised form promulgated by the Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM, Rabat). Publications entirely printed in Tifinagh still remain rare, and only a tiny proportion of Shilha speakers, if any, are able to handle the new script with confidence. Its main role is emblematic, that of a cultural icon. As such, Tifinagh has entered the public space, with town signs now showing the name in Tifinagh as well as in Arabic and Latin script.
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For all that the surviving western specimens of early medieval gold coins must represent only a tiny proportion of the original stock, it must be borne in mind that before the 13th century gold coins were extremely rare in western Europe: in England, for instance, only eight native gold pieces with meaningful legends are known from c. 650 to 1066, which can be complemented by finds from the same period of half a dozen Arabic gold and perhaps ten Carolingian gold pieces or imitations of them. Substantial and regular production of gold coinage only resumed in the 13th century.
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The neck was formed around a rebar support, obtained from the council's road department, and the eyes were made from glass marbles purchased at the town's outlet of Woolworths. The superintendent was not pleased with the modernist work, which he described to the treasurer as a "monstrosity", but it was liked by local people ensuring its survival. The swan was restored in summer 2018: damaged parts were replaced and new coats of render and paint were applied--prompted by complaints by Burton Civic Society in October 2017 and seeing expenditure of £3,000, a tiny proportion of the council's budget.
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Another criticism is that Newzbin claims to have successfully circumvented Cleanfeed following a court order forcing BT to censor the website over copyright infringement claims. This poses the question as to whether websites hosting child pornography could adopt similar measures to allow their users access to blocked content. Due to the proxy server implementation of the Cleanfeed system, websites that filter users by IP address such as a wikis and file lockers will be significantly broken through the system, even if only a tiny proportion of its content is blocked. Finally, information has surfaced that suggests that Cleanfeed could potentially be manipulated to provide a blacklist of blocked websites.
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Thus, the well-known pacifist and religious writer Stephen Henry Hobhouse was called up in 1916: he and many other Quaker activists took the unconditionalist stand, refusing both military and alternative service, and on enforced enlistment were court-martialled and imprisoned for disobedience.Brock, Peter,These strange criminals: an anthology of prison memoirs by conscientious objectors to military service from the Great War to the Cold War, p. 14, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, Conscientious objectors formed only a tiny proportion of Military Service Tribunals' cases over the whole conscription period, estimated at around 2%.Adrian Gregory, 'Military Service Tribunals, 1916–1918' in J. Harris (ed.) Civil Society in British History.
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Many hereditary peers are associated with famous estates such as Hatfield House; many notable estates are open to the public. The peerage has traditionally been associated with high gentry, the British nobility, and in recent times, the Conservative Party. Only a tiny proportion of wealthy people are peers, but the peerage includes a few of the very wealthiest, such as Hugh Grosvenor (the Duke of Westminster) and Lord Salisbury. A few peers own one or more of England's largest estates passed down through inheritance, particularly those with medieval roots: until the late 19th century the dominant English and Scottish land division on death was primogeniture.
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However, where research has been done on Drosophila, there appears to be large amounts of adaptively evolving non-coding DNA. Andolfatto (2005) estimated that adaptive evolution has occurred in 60% of untranslated mature portions of mRNAs, and in 20% of intronic and intergenic regions. If this is true, this would imply that much non-coding DNA could be of more functional importance than coding DNA, dramatically altering the consensus view. However, this would still leave unanswered what function all this non-coding DNA performs, as the regulatory activity observed thus far is in just a tiny proportion of the total amount of non-coding DNA.
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The Jewish role in the American slave trade was minimal.Professor Jacob R. Marcus of Hebrew Union College in The Colonial American Jew (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970), Vol. 2, pp. 702-703 According to historian and rabbi Bertram Korn, there were Jewish owners of plantations, but altogether they constituted only a tiny proportion of the industry.Bertram W. Korn, "Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865", in The Jewish Experience in America, ed. Abraham J. Karp (Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1969), Vol. 3, p. 180 : In 1830 there were only four Jews among the 11,000 Southerners who owned fifty or more slaves.
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This coalition battled at the time against Derg. The Band Aid Trust complained to the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit regarding the specific allegations in the BBC World Service documentary, and their complaint was upheld. In 2010 the BBC issued an apology to the Trust and stated there was no evidence money had been diverted, while the former British Ambassador to Ethiopia, Brian Barder, states, "the diversion of aid related only to the tiny proportion that was supplied by some NGOs to rebel-held areas." Although a professed admirer of Geldof's generosity and concern, American television commentator Bill O'Reilly was critical of the Live Aid's oversight of the use of the funds raised.
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Torpedo capacity was also restricted to around fourteen (Type VII) or 24 (Type IX), thus limiting the number of attacks that could be made, particularly when multiple firings were necessary for a single target. There was a real problem for the U-boats and their adversaries in finding each other; with a tiny proportion of the ocean in sight, without intelligence or radar, warships and even aircraft would be fortunate in coming across a submarine. The Royal Navy and later the United States Navy each took time to learn this lesson. Conversely, a U-boat's radius of vision was even smaller and had to be supplemented by regular long-range reconnaissance flights.
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A 2011 study of litter in the Bay area by Clean Water Action found that nearly half of the litter present on the streets was fast food packaging. The Natural Resources Defense Council's paper “Waste and Opportunity 2015: Environmental Progress and Challenges in Food, Beverage, and Consumer Goods Packaging” reported that no fast food brands were meeting best practices for use of recycled materials or promotion of recycling of the used packaging. The EPA states that only a tiny proportion of the plastic waste generated by the fast food industry is recycled.MacKerron, Conrad B. "Waste and Opportunity 2015: Environmental Progress and Challenges in Food, Beverage, and Consumer Goods Packaging". Rep. no. R:15-01-A. N.p.
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Methane and ethane make up a tiny proportion of Jupiter's atmosphere Extraction of oil, which contains many distinct hydrocarbons including alkanes Alkanes form a small portion of the atmospheres of the outer gas planets such as Jupiter (0.1% methane, 2 ppm ethane), Saturn (0.2% methane, 5 ppm ethane), Uranus (1.99% methane, 2.5 ppm ethane) and Neptune (1.5% methane, 1.5 ppm ethane). Titan (1.6% methane), a satellite of Saturn, was examined by the Huygens probe, which indicated that Titan's atmosphere periodically rains liquid methane onto the moon's surface. Also on Titan the Cassini mission has imaged seasonal methane/ethane lakes near the polar regions of Titan. Methane and ethane have also been detected in the tail of the comet Hyakutake.
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Deoki first contested elections in 1947, when he ran for the Southern Indo-Fijian constituency in the Legislative Council elections, losing to Vishnu Deo. Following the 1956 elections he was appointed to be one of the two Indo-Fijian nominated members of the Council. He ran for election again in the Southern constituency in 1959 and was elected with 59% of the vote. He realised that being a Christian (who made up a tiny proportion of Indo-Fijian community), he needed to maintain good relations with all sections of the Indian community, and consequently his nomination paper for the 1963 elections was signed by two Hindus, a Muslim, a Gujarati, a South Indian and a Sikh; he was re-elected.
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Pinel was the chief physician of the Salpêtrière by 1794, in charge of a 200-bed infirmary which housed a tiny proportion of the huge indigent female population. He was succeeded by his assistant Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840) who, from 1817, delivered the first systematic lectures on psychiatry in France and was the chief architect of the lunacy legislation of 30 June 1838. Esquirol was followed by Étienne Pariset; and from 1831 till 1867 the chef d'hospice was Jean-Pierre Falret (1794–1870) who contributed much to our understanding of bipolar disorder and folie à deux. A regular visitor to the Salpêtrière from 1842 till his death more than thirty years later was Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875).
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It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison", and called on the South African government to abandon its apartheid policy. The scholar Isidore Diala wrote that Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Brink are "three of South Africa's most distinguished white writers, all with definite anti-apartheid commitment". It has been argued that Coetzee's 1999 novel Disgrace allegorises South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Asked about his views on the TRC, Coetzee said, "In a state with no official religion, the TRC was somewhat anomalous: a court of a certain kind based to a large degree on Christian teaching and on a strand of Christian teaching accepted in their hearts by only a tiny proportion of the citizenry.
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Christie's Some artists remain unidentified, and were clearly not of the first rank, but, given the significant names represented among the tiny proportion of survivors, it appears that many artists took an occasional break from larger projects to produce desci. The circular tondo shape in normal panel paintings, which became fashionable in the mid-fifteenth century in Florence, may have developed from the smaller desci."The Adoration of the Kings, about 1470-5, Sandro Botticelli", National Gallery Diana and Actaeon. San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum The format of the desco, usually about 50 to 60 cm across, is with twelve or sixteen sides, or from about 1430, round,Musacchio 1998:141; Robert Olson, Florentine Tondo, 2000:29, compares deschi with the circular format of a tondo.
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This evidence shows that the founder population of Iceland came from Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia: studies of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomes indicate that 62% of Icelanders' matrilineal ancestry derives from Scotland and Ireland (with most of the rest being from Scandinavia), while 75% of their patrilineal ancestry derives from Scandinavia (with most of the rest being from the Irish and British Isles).. Other studies have identified other ancestries, however. One study of mitochondrial DNA, blood groups, and isozymes revealed a more variable population than expected, comparable to the diversity of some other Europeans.Árnason et al., 2000 Another study showed that a tiny proportion of samples of contemporary Icelanders carry a more distant lineage, which belongs to the haplogroup C1e, which can possibly be traced to the settlement of the Americas around 14,000 years ago.
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The adoption of the fashions, mannerisms, and ideals of Western Europe by the Russian nobility was a gradual process rooted in the strict guidelines of Peter the Great and the educational reforms of Catherine the Great. While cultural westernization was mostly superficial and restricted to court, it coincided with the efforts of Russian autocrats to link Russia to Western Europe in more fundamental ways – socially, economically and politically. However, Russia's existing economic system, which lacked a sizable middle class and which relied heavily on forced labor, proved an insurmountable obstacle to the development of a free market economy. Furthermore, the lower classes (an overwhelming majority of the Russian population) lived virtually isolated from the upper classes and the imperial court. Thus, most of the nobility's “western” tendencies were largely aesthetic and confined to a tiny proportion of the populace.
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A British study published in 1996 found 62 cases of alleged ritual abuse reported to researchers by police, social and welfare agencies from the period of 1988 to 1991, representing a tiny proportion of extremely high-profile cases compared to the total number investigated by the agencies.Hughes & Parker in Bibby, 1996, pp. 215–30. Anthropologist Jean LaFontaine spent several years researching ritual abuse cases in Britain at the behest of the government, finding that all of the cases of alleged satanic ritual abuse that could be substantiated were cases where the perpetrators' goal was sexual gratification rather than religious worship. Producing several reports and the 1998 book Speak of the Devil, after reviewing cases reported to police and children's protective services throughout the country LaFontaine concluded that the only rituals she uncovered were those invented by child abusers to frighten their victims or justify the sexual abuse.
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However, defenses that animals have evolved are mostly general > rather than specific for particular chemicals; moreover, defenses are > generally inducible and therefore protect well from low doses of both > synthetic and natural chemicals. > 3) Because the toxicology of natural and synthetic chemicals is similar, > one expects (and finds) a similar positivity rate for carcinogenicity among > synthetic and natural chemicals. The positivity rate among chemicals tested > in rats and mice is ~50%. Therefore, because humans are exposed to so many > more natural than synthetic chemicals (by weight and by number), humans are > exposed to an enormous background of rodent carcinogens, as defined by high- > dose tests on rodents. We have shown that even though only a tiny proportion > of natural pesticides in plant foods have been tested, the 29 that are > rodent carcinogens among the 57 tested, occur in more than 50 common plant > foods.
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A reconstruction of the Battle of Leuctra. The Theban forces are in blue, while the Spartan forces are in red. The Sacred Band under Pelopidas is the smaller phalanx at the bottom right corner, beside the largest concentration of infantry in the Theban left wing. The Spartan army numbered about 10,000 hoplites, 1,000 light infantry, and 1,000 cavalry. However, only about 700 hoplites of the Spartan army were composed of spartiates (Spartan citizens), the rest were conscripted troops from Spartan subject states (the perioeci) forced to fight.Paul Cartledge and other historians believe that the exceedingly tiny proportion of spartiates dominating a force of about 10,000 allied troops (not all of them fully loyal) may have contributed to the defeat. The number of spartiates have been falling catastrophically for over a century, numbering at perhaps not more than 1,500 by the time of the Battle of Leuctra. At the Battle of Nemea (394 BC), for example, spartiates still constituted 6,000 hoplites of an army 19,000 strong.
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The database, often referred to as a "list" in the press and by one of its founders, operated as a blacklist against workers who were active trade union members or otherwise vocal on matters such as health and safety violations by their employers. Many of the workers were on the list having been accused by previous employers of being "troublemakers" or "militant"; other notes in the database referred to subjects' personal and family relationships, and those who had pursued an employment tribunal. Workers who were on the list allege they were deprived of their livelihoods as a result of their inclusion, with supporters claiming their human rights have been breached. Following initial newspaper reports in 2008, arising out of an investigation into worker dismissals during construction of Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) action in early 2009, it emerged that the Consulting Association held files on about 3,213 construction workers, including political activists, environmentalists, shop stewards and health and safety representatives (it was later alleged that the 3,213 was only a tiny proportion, and that up to 95% of TCA files were left untouched, leading to speculation, denied by the ICO, that 60,000 workers could have been blacklisted).
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