While the business interests of the new states were and still arepredominantly agricultural, the railroads had transformed the occupation of farming.
Hence the sexual symbolism of myths that were predominantly aetiological in character--that were predominantly attempts to answer the great Why?
Though it has some bustling cities, thriving towns, and prosperous communities, the Appalachian South today is predominantly rural.
Then, too, the great masses of negroes live in States which are predominantly rural and in which the percentage of white illiteracy is also high.
Many orders of the land reptiles sent a branch into the waters in an age which, we saw, waspredominantly one of water-surface.
In their study of the emanations from uranium compounds the Curies were led to isolate the various elements of the compounds until they discovered that the discharge was predominantly due to one specific element, radium.
Though the Primary Era was predominantly the age of Cryptogams, we saw that a very large number of seed-bearing plants, with very mixed characters, appeared before its close.
They include sedimentary deposits, showing the action of water, and even probable traces of organic remains, but they are, especially in their deeper and older sections, predominantly volcanic.
The first question has a predominantly technical interest, and the authorities are not agreed in replying to it.
As we saw, the Primary Era was predominantly the age of Cryptogams; the later periods witness the rise and supremacy of the Phanerogams.
This circumstance, and the witness of Australia, permit us, perhaps, to regard the Jurassic mammals as predominantly marsupial.
In the middle of the Carboniferous, when Europe is predominantly a flat, low-lying land, largely submerged, a chain of mountains begins to rise across its central part.
Two pairs of membranous, hair-covered wings, with predominantly longitudinal neuration.
Two pairs of similar, membranous wings, with predominantly longitudinal neuration.
Nevertheless, even in the Roman province of Galatia the internal organisation was predominantly Celtic.
Both of these steps applied also to the senatorial provinces, and were to all appearance predominantly felt as a benefit.
As the Italic town was the basis for the organisation of the south province, so the canton was for the northern, and predominantly indeed the canton of the Celtic formerly political, now communal, organisation.
But it was predominantly abroad that the Greeks practised both; of the export of Greek art-products formerly so important there is little mention at this period.
The high gradient of upland tributaries in the Flint Hills area produced turbulence and bottoms predominantly of rubble.
Its backfilling was predominantly of the same sandy clay and, consequently, the exact edge of the cellar hole was sometimes hard to determine.
An unusually large percentage of Colono-Indian pottery was present, predominantly in pits dating from the second quarter of the 18th century.
The iron-oxide slip which extends to the midsection of the body is well mottled and predominantly of good color.
Then we find a region characterized predominantly by pines and pine-like trees and birches, and may be called the region of pines.
The driver, a young lieutenant who seemed to be of predominantly Malayan and Polynesian blood, slid back the duraglass canopy for him to climb in, then snapped it into place when he had strapped himself into his seat.
Here it is quite clear that these frontiersmen were predominantly from the lower Susquehanna Valley and southeastern Pennsylvania.
How very rarely an imagination is to be found which is not predominantly subjective, is shown precisely in the very highest grade of its development--in the creations of imitative art.
A more artistic feeling is a universal want of the times to counteract the prevailing school form, and the preponderating mathematical view of the world, or, at least, a predominantly mathematical cast of mind.
Hence, too, so far, at least, as this is possible in the domain of science, the point of view of this philosophy is predominantly artistic.
Manufacturing, predominantly in private hands, accounts for about 20% of GDP and 12% of the labor force.
Portions of the mountains are predominantly limestone with characteristic phenomena, such as caves, waterfalls, and underground streams.
Opportunities for travel and cultural contacts that later developed were also predominantly within Western areas and intensified the political consciousness of the Romanians along Western lines.
Despite the desires of the Soviet leaders that Romania remain predominantly agricultural, the new Romanian leadership was determined to industrialize.
This phenomenon is an outgrowth primarily of a progressive qualitative deterioration of the agricultural manpower pool, owing to a continuing transfer of predominantly young male workers into nonagricultural occupations.
Although the population has always been predominantly Romanian, Hungarians and Germans constitute a majority in some areas of the country and remain a source of potential political and social problems.
Romanians are predominantly Orthodox, whereas more than half of the Hungarians in the country are Roman Catholic, most of the remainder are Calvinists, and some are Unitarians.
Two small sherds of North Devon gravel-tempered ware were found there in a predominantly mid-18th-century deposit.
Cultural material is predominantly from about 1675.
No other pieces of this type were found, associated artifacts having been predominantly from the 18th century.
Patrick had probably consecrated diocesan bishops in large numbers, the Church soon became "predominantly monastic.
The Council, like its predecessors, was predominantly Eastern; but its decisions were afterwards accepted by the West.
In a lesson predominantly inductive or deductive, some element of drill may enter, or appreciation may be sought with respect to some particular part of the situation presented.
Give examples of reasoning demanded in school work in which the process is predominantly inductive.
Give an example of a lesson which you have taught which was predominantly inductive.
Manufacturing, predominantly in private hands, accounts for about 18% of GDP and 12% of the labor force.
The economy is market oriented with most decisions made by private individuals and business firms and with government purchases of goods and services made predominantly in the marketplace.
The economy is predominantlyagricultural with roughly 90% of the population dependent on subsistence agriculture.
Industrial activity is predominantly in food processing, chemicals, petroleum refining, and electrical machinery.
Mediaeval monasticism, whether cloistered or sent forth into the world, was predominantly coenobitic or communal.
Since Rome was still pagan when these lands were made provinces, an unchristianized Latinity was grafted upon their predominantly Celtic populations.
One cannot read the old chansons de geste in which fighting, and not love, is the absorbing topic, without feeling that the audience before whom they were chanted was predominantly male.
There one may see what might come of a predominantly Celtic people who lacked the lesson of Roman conquest and the discipline of Roman order.
Predominantly lay and ecclesiastically somewhat bizarre, they were scarcely monks.
But the stress of French life was not so surely in the towns, nor men's minds so characteristically urban as in Italy, and by no means so predominantly humanistic.
But the growth, the development, the further composition, of the matiere de Bretagne ispredominantly French.
But the operations of his mind were predominantly Carolingian, which is to say that ninety-nine per cent of the contents of his opera consist of material extracted from prior writers.
In the past, poor fool that he has been, he has not availed himself of his opportunities: "Hitherto superstition and mythical ideas of sin have predominantly controlled these powers.
In the past, we are told, "superstitious and mythical ideas of sin havepredominantly controlled these powers.
Even the biological hedonist must originally possess such a thing and, it may be supposed, must deal with it as he would with the gravely diseased children, and as something which would "predominantly control his powers of enjoyment.
The ground color is predominantly a brown, but varies from a brownish-green to almost black with a pattern of 10 to 17 irregular bands of a darker shade of brown.
