Prospering as farmers, they came to control more than one-tenth of the farmland by 1920, while constituting only 2 percent of the population.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 1990 case, Michigan v. Sitz, that a sobriety checkpoint, while constituting a seizure, was not unreasonable because the interest in public safety outweighed the minimal intrusion on a driver's time and privacy.
In the late 20th century Soviet planning began to give greater emphasis to private plots; while constituting only about 1.5 percent of Soviet farmland, these plots produced about one-third of the nation's agricultural output other than grains.
While constituting a minority, the relatively upscale wing clearly dominates party policy and provides the majority of the activists who run campaigns, serve as delegates to the convention and have become the core of the party's donor base.
While constituting pro-gay hetero-masculinities, straight gay friendships create landscapes of both new equalities and persistent inequalities.
It is the world's largest producer and exporter of corn while constituting about a fifth of the global area cultivation.
The sustainable management of soils, while constituting an important resource conservation concern in some contexts, has been neglected in the UK.
Comparison with the other four popular existing methods is also conducted, which demonstrates that with the implementation of sparse coding, all methods give better retrieval results than without while constituting the codebook, implying the significant contribution of machine learning techniques.
However, while constituting a tremendous improvement over previous methods, pyrosequencing is constrained by cost limitations and a relatively high per-read error rate.
