Among the scripts in modern use, the Hebrew alphabet bears the closest relation to the Imperial Aramaic script of the 5th century BCE, with an identical letter inventory and, for the most part, nearly identical letter shapes.

Among single-winner election systems where voters act in their own best interests, approval voting comes closest to reflecting the overall will of the people as measured in terms of minimizing Bayesian regret.

Among her closest forefathers there were family names like Polereczky ( Magyarized Polish or Slovak ) and Fegyveres ( Magyar ).

Among these was the devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák, the closest Brahms ever came to having a protégé.

Among English-speaking artists, the closest counterpart to symbolism was aestheticism.

Among the closest relatives to Stegosaurus are Wuerhosaurus from China and Kentrosaurus from east Africa.

Among its superfamily, the closest relatives of the Laniidae are probably the Corvidae ( crows and allies ).

Among the closest were Kevin McGoran and Jim McCarthy.

Among Fry's closest associates were Americans Miriam Davenport, a former art student at the Sorbonne, and the heiress Mary Jayne Gold, a lover of the arts and the " good life " who had come to Paris in the early 1930s.

Among these generals were men who would later become some of Hideyoshi's closest retainers, such as Katō Kiyomasa.

Among the Wang siblings, Cher has come closest to rivaling her father's wealth ..

Among Rousseau's definitions of law, the textually closest variant can be found in a passage of the Lettres écrites de la montagne summarizing the argument of Du contrat social, in which law is defined as " a public and solemn declaration of the general will on an object of common interest.

Among the dialects of Hebrew preserved into modern times, Yemenite Hebrew is regarded as one of the forms closest to Hebrew as used in ancient times, particularly Tiberian Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew.

Among the best-known and closest are the Pleiades ( M45 ) and the Hyades in Taurus and the Beehive ( M44 ) in Cancer.

Among Dunham's closest friends and colleagues was Julie Robinson, formerly a performer with the Katherine Dunham Company, and her husband, singer and later political activist Harry Belafonte.

Among the different ways of pronunciation are: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Temani ( which is considered the closest to the original pronunciation of Hebrew in biblical times ).

Among these, the two Tati pockets in Gilan, Kalasi and Kabataʾī, have their closest relatives in Upper Tarom in ZaZanjan province.

Among the closest living relatives of vetches are the lentils ( Lens ) and the true peas ( Pisum ).

Among his closest friends at the time were Carlo Bugatti and Emilio Longoni, both of whom profoundly influenced his work and his interests.

Among all the shopping malls in Singapore, this one is the closest to Malaysia.

J. N Hillgarth writes: " Among the descendants by the male line, the closest relation to Martín was James II of Urgell.

Among the most memorable games in the Pan Am ’ s history are NMSU ’ s heartbreaking 91-89 overtime loss to Larry Bird ’ s # 2-ranked Indiana State squad on February 2, 1979 ( the then-undefeated Sycamores ' closest call until losing to Michigan State in that year ’ s legendary national title game ); a 72-64 win over New Mexico on December 15, 1990 that saw an all-time record 14, 845 fans squeeze into the arena, a nationally televised 83-82 upset of # 7-ranked eventual national champion UNLV on January 8, 1990, and the Aggies ' thrilling 72-70 defeat of Utah State in the 2007 WAC Tournament Championship Game that clinched the Aggies ' seventeenth NCAA Tournament appearance.

Among the closest friends of Franc Fiszer were Bolesław Leśmian ( Fiszer is said to have invented his pen-name ), Stefan Żeromski, Władysław Reymont, the Skamandrites Antoni Słonimski and Julian Tuwim, Jan Lechoń, Miriam, Artur Rubinstein and Antoni Lange.

Among the species infecting the great apes, Plasmodium schwetzi morphologically appears to be the closest relation to P. ovale.

Among my school and neighborhood friends, during the next months, I bragged and swaggered and pompously described my impending date.

Among his friends were Augustine, Jerome, and Paulinus.

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

Among their friends was Henry Balnaves, a former secretary of state in the government, who negotiated with England for the financial support of the rebels.

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.

Among these friends were Enevold Brandt and Count Schack Carl Rantzau, leader of a circle of followers of the Enlightenment, who treated Struensee as his protégé.

Among his childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, son of King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall.

Among his friends during this time was future behaviorist John Watson, with whom he exchanged ideas and collaborated.

Among Astor's early political friends were the first female candidates to follow her to Parliament, including members of the other parties.

Among two or three friends, however, the picture of Rivers is quite different.

Among her few close friends she counted Patricia Tobin, whose family founded the Hibernia Bank, a branch of which Hearst would later aid in robbing.

Among his many friends was Edmund N. Bacon.

Among the more prominent of Priscillian's friends were two bishops, Instantius and Salvianus ; Hyginus of Cordova also joined the party.

Among the American expatriate community in Paris his friends included Susan Sontag.

Among the friends of the family was the historian Leopold von Ranke, which advised the parents to support the boy's innate talent.

Among his friends and acquaintances were many English artists and satirists of the period, for instance, Francis Hayman, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne.

Among his friends were such different people as Wilhelm Röpke, who was to become one of the leading figures of economic liberalism, Ernst Lemmer, later a trade unionist and also a Christian Democrat, and Viktor Agartz, a Marxist.

Among his friends at Edinburgh were the philosophers Adam Ferguson and David Hume and the artist Paul Sandby whom he met in the Highlands.

Among his friends were Booker T. Washington, Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller, and Mark Twain, all of whom came to visit Rogers in Fairhaven, sometimes for protracted periods.

Among those who stayed year-round, friends would be hosted for the snowy holidays and winter sports.

Among the friends he made here was the future Czech revolutionary poet Karel Havlíček, whose departure for Prague in 1838 may have influenced Smetana's own desire to experience life in the capital.

Among friends of equal social status, it is not necessary to use both hands while pouring or receiving a drink, but may be done out of habit or politeness, or if the situation is considered a particularly formal one.

Among the more noteworthy cases which fell under his direction were the proceedings against " Martin Marprelate ", Thomas Cartwright and his friends, and John Penry, whose " seditious writings " he caused to be intercepted and given up to the lord keeper.

Among his only remaining friends is the mortal head of the Talamasca Caste, David Talbot, who is seventy-four years old.