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It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake.
Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.
Large-scale surface currents are already known to exist, and major currents below the ocean surface, too, are being found.
The major religions in China are Taoism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.
Japan has had the experience of being hit by major earthquake disasters, since it is a country which has historically had many earthquakes.
The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.
Capital investments planned by major Japanese businesses for this year have been revised upward in view of an improving economic outlook.
Japanese companies have set up factories on every continent, and Japanese banks help finance many of the world's major economic programs.
While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden, and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.
Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.
In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.
It would be a great convenience if English were to become everybody's major language.
Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.
The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
Anglais mot "major"(major) se produit dans des ensembles:
Tchaikovsky's house (16.01.18) + (19.01.18)lekcja 2- słownictwo wojskowe.Moduł 28 - święta państwoweSŁOWNICTWO 22 (MARZEC 2013)j. angielski-zaw unit 82. majority
Majority rule is a basic principle of democracy.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The majority of employees
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.
The vast majority of high school students I know can't read an unknown word and pronounce the letters in the right order, let alone pronounce it correctly or naturally.
Normally speaking, Chinese people consider rice to be an important food; the majority of Westerners consider fast food to be an important food.
Together, the developers may amend this constitution, provided a 3:1 majority is in agreement.
Before the conquest by the Arabians, the majority of the Persians were Zoroastrians, but there were also Jews and Christians. So, who could imagine today that Iranians have Jewish or Christian ancestors?
I don't believe that some day a majority of the world's population will speak Esperanto.
the vast majority (=nearly everyone/everything) The vast majority had never travelled outside the United States.
These are issues which did not meet with an agreement from the majority.
Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.