Did an asteroid hit it, blasting the greater part of its atmosphere into space?
Concealed carry laws have been on the rise for the greater part of three decades.
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For the greater part of the past half-century Wall Street financier Leon Levy has been an optimist.
Libya has a long coastline on the Mediterranean but the greater part consists of the central Sahara Desert.
That means that Medicare has to bear a greater part of the burden.
As a coach, I have spent the greater part of my career urging presenters to include benefits in their pitches.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Everyone knows that healthcare makes up 4.6 percent of the CPI index but a much greater part of spending in the real economy.
Scott Brown, Barry Robson and Paul Hartley hounded Carrick and Fletcher incessantly and for the greater part, held on to the ball when they could.
But the same fatal flaw that gives democratic majorities everywhere the power to vote themselves a comfy retirement now infects a greater part of the developed world.
Even in the home of consumer sites such as ebay and eTrade, which steal the headlines and achieve dizzying valuations, e-business is the greater part of online transactions.
However, the greater part of knowledge capture and management in businesses these days are spent on trying to capture and turn into assets what we colloquially refer to as best practices.
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The president credited the technology industry with a significant role in the current good economic times, and predicted the Internet would play an even greater part in the economy's continued growth and health.
Really, I never saw them as having left per se, as I've had many conversations with the two of them over the years, but now they're going to be playing a much greater part.
He added that United Biscuits was "delighted" that one of its existing shareholders, PAI - which has offices in Paris, London, Madrid and Milan - had decided to play a greater part in the business.
And while there is a greater part of the city that still is suffering horribly, the historic and tourism core of the city is thriving, and in many ways enjoying the spirit like no other time in history.
With the base row over, if America can rely upon Japan to play a greater part in its own defence, America can reduce the number of its own troops in Japan and move some forces to Guam or even Hawaii.
We meet Mr. Worthington's Nick Cassidy as he emerges from the subway at Sixth Avenue, crosses a city abuzz with anonymous life, checks into a room at the matronly Roosevelt Hotel and eats the greater part of a mediocre meal.
If not, and those banks decide to instead sit on those reserves, or at least the greater part of them, we will likely see a precipitous fall in the rate of growth in the money supply, maybe even an actual contraction.
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So not only do you have the economics of some of the most -- as the fishermen told the President -- some of the most important estuaries in our country, but you also have -- obviously these marshes represent the physical barrier that protects the greater part of Louisiana, particularly New Orleans, from bigger storms and hurricanes.
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"Improving the way management engages with workers gives them an opportunity to be something greater than part of a machine, " says Ian Spaulding, a senior partner at the firm, which is based in Hong Kong.
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Croydon was a separate town until 1965, when it was absorbed into Greater London as part of a reorganisation of the capital's administrative boundaries.
In fairness, Mr McCain's lower grade may in part reflect greater candour about his weaknesses.
In Chinese philosophy, the concept of Yin-Yang explains two complementary forces interacting to form a whole greater than either separate part.
Swing states suffered a more severe average decline of nearly 10%, due in large part to greater than 20% declines in Nevada and Ohio.
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In the meantime it offers two alternatives (see article), both backed up by better supervision and by greater transparency on the part of the banks.
"The geographical boundaries were redrawn in 1974 - previously Rochdale was a part of Lancashire Police, but post-1974 it became part of Greater Manchester Police, " he said.
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"There has been a greater consideration on the part of many urologists to take less aggressive approaches with some low-grade cancer, particularly in older men, " Brooks said.
They are expected to be joined early next year by Irene Saez, the Miss Universe of 1981 and now mayor of Chacao, an upmarket part of greater Caracas.
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