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.
But the greater part of its new 2010 report looked at human rights in the classic sense.
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.
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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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.
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.
Certainly, he was a divided soul who lived for the greater part of his life in the country, set apart from the world, musing, in verse, on the desirability or otherwise of rustic retirement how much freedom did it really represent?
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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Libya has a long coastline on the Mediterranean but the greater part consists of the central Sahara Desert.
"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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This site part of a greater network of training and racing areas includes a track for luge, skeleton and bobsledding and facilities for the biathlon (a combination of cross-country skiing and target-range shooting).
But the President believes that today marked an appropriate time with which to seek a different relationship with a country, if that country is willing to accept responsibilities to become part of a greater community of nations.
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.
"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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Aside from its southern border with Israel, Lebanon is entirely surrounded by Syria, and was considered part of "greater Syria" until the end of World War I.
In producing the National Security Scorecard, the Center hopes to assist the American people in understanding the commitment of their elected officials to the time-tested philosophy of promoting international peace through American strength, and to encourage greater accountability on the part of Senators and Members of Congress for their adherence to this principle.
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With the Arab Spring came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation, an opportunity for greater participation on the part of women in public life and in economic life in the Middle East.
The government is massively upgrading the public transportation network (see a map of the planned subway expansion) as part of this expansion of Greater Beijing.
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Or worse, that it is part of a trend towards greater corporate control of the public sector, like charter schools.
Sam Brownback of Kansas, to the effect that -- in the absence, at a minimum, of far greater disclosure and transparency on the part of Chinese and other foreign entities coming to the U.S. market, American investors could unwittingly wind up underwriting odious activities like CNPC's support for the government of Sudan.
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.
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