The rule of ratification suggested by the committee to whom this subject was last confided was, that a treaty might be sanctioned by two thirds of the senators present, but not by a smaller number.
The controlling reason why a smaller number than a majority of the members of each house should not be permitted to make laws, was to be found in the extent of the country and the diversity of its interests.
Whilst a large number of small by-spines cover the entire surface, a smaller number of large main spines are scattered over it, or limited to certain regularly distributed points.
It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number.
So long as we have merely the substitution of a smaller number of large competing businesses for a larger number of small ones, no radical change is effected in the nature of industry.
I have repeatedly taken nests containing this number, and have comparatively seldom met with a smaller number of eggs at all incubated.
Besides these primary markings, all the eggs exhibit a greater or smaller number of faint lilac or purple spots or blotches, which chiefly occur where the other markings are most dense.
More and more authority to direct or do the greater things in a corporation are concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of individuals.
From their number they usually select a smaller number to manage or direct its affairs.
Time is ever becoming a more important element, a smaller number of men can act more quickly than a larger number, and so business must be more and more concentrated to be done efficiently.
By this system a voter may cast as many votes for each of the candidates as he holds shares of stock, or he may distribute or cumulate his votes on a smaller number.
The higher the finish of the surface, the softer are the drawings; but the printing process becomes sooner pasty, and a smaller number of impressions can be taken.
Without being entirely freed from the tax, a manor has been rated at a smaller number of hides than it really contains.
Dissected to show confluence of caeca to form a smaller number of terminal tubes of larger calibre entering the intestine.
The larger mass of the jejuno-ileal coils is developed from the descending limb of the loop; a smaller number of convolutions belong to the returning or ascending limb, which also includes the ileo-colic junction.
The single alphabet demands much less from the optical memory, and the corresponding motor inner attitude of consciousness is adjusted to a smaller number of possibilities.
In other experiments the arrangement was that two different lists were read and that in the two lists a larger or smaller number of words were repeated from the first list.
The influence becomes narrower, it is directed toward a smaller number of persons; but, on the other hand, it gains just by the new possibility of individualization.
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