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.
As a coach, I have spent the greater part of my career urging presenters to include benefits in their pitches.
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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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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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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Libya has a long coastline on the Mediterranean but the greater part consists of the central Sahara Desert.
Everyone knows that healthcare makes up 4.6 percent of the CPI index but a much greater part of spending in the real economy.
The authors suggest that the impact of any philanthropic endeavor is greater when advocacy and service are part of the equation, but I believe that is an inefficient, non-scalable solution.
If firms could buy out these interlocking stakes, shareholders would benefit both by greater liquidity in the stockmarket and by a greater clarity of purpose on the part of the managers they employ.
"At The New York Times and The Washington Post, there is much greater interest on the part of the top executives in fulfilling an obligation to society, " Carroll says.
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.
The Helix Producer is being ramped up, pressurized as part of the greater containment.
The cross-party committee warned that the increased use of biofuels, part of the European Union's demand for greater stability in energy, would drive up the cost of food.
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This meant they were able to figure out which of the four profiles the participant was thinking about just by looking at what part of the brain showed greater activation when a participant was imagining a scene.
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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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Thames Clippers gets a small subsidy from Transport for London (TfL), part of the Greater London Authority.
That means that Medicare has to bear a greater part of the burden.
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.
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.
"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.
The latter part of Ruffini's plan presented the greater challenge.
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 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.
One need not agree with all of this book's musings or interpretations -- particularly the notion of nullification, whereby a group of like-minded people can declare a law null and void for them -- to appreciate its plea for a greater sensitivity on the part of our political establishment to those with unconventional beliefs.
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