Among the three major religions ( Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism ), the Sikhs formed the largest group ( 41. 6 %) only in the Ludhiana district.

Among the Rajputs, Sikhs and Mughals, princes and nobles were often portrayed wearing a katar at their side.

Among Sikhs there was a great frustration at this perceived sacrilege and the legal immunity of the perpetrators.

Among the visitors was Bhai Banno, who had led a group of Sikhs from Mangat, in western Punjab.

Among the chief proponents of this attitude were the militant Babbar Khalsa founded by Sukhdev Singh Babbar ( a close associate of Fauja Singh, one of the Sikhs killed at the Nirankari clash ) and Bibi Amarjit Kaur of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha ( widow of Fauja Singh ).

Singh is also featured in books discussing the successes of Sikhs who had migrated from India to the West, including Surjit Kaur's Among the Sikhs: Reaching for the Stars and Gurmukh Singh's The Global Indian: The Sikhs.

Among other adventures, Atalanta participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, which Artemis had sent to destroy Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at the harvest sacrifices.

Among some amateur astronomers, NGC 246 has garnered the nickname " Pac-Man Nebula " because of the arrangement of its central stars and the surrounding star field.

Among current educational psychologists, the cognitive perspective is more widely held than the behavioral perspective, perhaps because it admits causally related mental constructs such as traits, beliefs, memories, motivations and emotions.

Among QCT's disadvantages: it requires a high radiation dose compared to DXA, CT scanners are large and expensive, and because its practice has been less standardized than BMD, its results are more operator-dependent.

Among medieval literary texts, Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde plays a special role because Chaucer's usage seems to challenge the truth value of proverbs by exposing their epistemological unreliability.

Among the possibilities is that Pelayo's rebellion was successful because the greater part of the Muslim forces were gathering for an invasion of the Frankish empire.

Among the Selkups, the sea duck is a spirit animal because ducks fly in the air and dive in the water.

Among many Native Americans, the jaguar is a spirit animal because jaguars walk on earth, swim in water, and climb in trees.

Among those familiar with his poetry, his identity became an open secret, but Scott persisted maintaining the façade, perhaps because he thought his old-fashioned father would disapprove of his engaging in such a trivial pursuit as novel writing.

Among the things that prompted Cousteau to develop efficient air-breathing free-swimming diving gear, were two oxygen toxicity accidents that he had in 1939 with rebreathers, the first at 17 metres deep, but those accidents happened because he went too deep with pure oxygen.

Among them, the strain tolerance is crucial not because of any electrical effect, but because it determines how much structural material is needed to keep the SMES from breaking.

Among Anglophones, the word nigger was not always considered derogatory, because it then denoted " black-skinned ", a common Anglophone usage.

Among his many other wide-ranging non-fiction works were The Great Monkey Trial ( about the Scopes Trial ), The Ragged Edge of Science, Energy and Power, The Heroic Age of American Invention, The Day of the Dinosaur ( which argued, among other things, that evolution took hold after Darwin because of the Victorian interest spurred by recently popularized dinosaur remains, corresponding to legends of dragons ), and The Evolution of Naval Weapons ( a U. S. government textbook ).

Among tourists, Nice is the second most popular French city after Paris, a fact which, combined with the difficulties of land travel at long distance ( partly because of the Alps ), allows it to have the second busiest airport in France in terms of passenger numbers ( close to 10, 000, 000 passengers in 2005 ).

Among other things, the ecclesiastical primatical territory today continues to be larger because of the history: it includes part of modern Montenegro, notably around Bar, the ( honorary ) Roman Catholic primas of Dalmatia, but an exempt archbishopric without suffragans while the archbishoprics of Split ( also a historical primas of Dalmatia ) have provincial authority over all Croatian dioceses except the exempt archbishopric of Zadar.

Among Orthodox Christians, Sunday is considered to be a " Little Pascha " ( Easter ), and because of the Paschal joy, the making of prostrations is forbidden, except in certain circumstances.

Among the Mediterranean climate zone, chestnut trees are rarer in Greece because the chalky soil is not conducive to the tree's growth.

Among other things, he supported the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, because it was in line with the UN Security Council's decision and because only military centers were to be targeted.

Among the speakers was Canadian social activist and author Naomi Klein and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who firmly said in his talk, “ We are going to go to the UN to declare that water is a basic public need that must not be managed by private interests, but should be for all people, including people of rural areas .” The Forum was at first plagued with logistical problems, as a number of events had to be canceled at the last minute because of a lack of space, and a student strike against the policies of President Abdoulaye Wade in Diop University interrupted some scheduled plenaries.

Among other challenges, the consensus scoring criterion means that it is impossible to create items ( questions ) that only a minority of respondents can solve, because, by definition, responses are deemed emotionally " intelligent " only if the majority of the sample has endorsed them.

Among the first to bring the term " ethnic group " into social studies was the German sociologist Max Weber, who defined it as: hose human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration ; this belief must be important for group formation ; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.

Among other rulings, the court ( 1 ) held that application of that law did not violate the Boy Scouts ' First Amendment right of expressive association because Dale's inclusion would not significantly affect members ' ability to carry out their purposes ; ( 2 ) determined that New Jersey has a compelling interest in eliminating the destructive consequences of discrimination from society, and that its public accommodations law abridges no more speech than is necessary to accomplish its purpose ; and ( 3 ) held that Dale's reinstatement did not compel the Boy Scouts to express any message.

Among Black players, the name " craps " refers primarily to the casino version of the game that is played on a marked felt surface on a table.

Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.

Among the theories on the origin of the Addicks name are that it was the south-east London pronunciation of either " addict " or " athletic ".

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

Among indigenous Australians, it is forbidden to use the name, image, or audio-visual recording of the deceased ; the Australian Broadcasting Corporation now publishes a warning to indigenous Australians when using names, images or audio-visual recordings of people who have died.

Among other conclusions, he found a tendency among the inhabitants of Ebla to replace the name of El, king of the gods of the Canaanite pantheon ( found in names such as Mikael ), with Ia.

Among the languages considered was a new language anonymously submitted under the pen name Ido.

Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes (' susilieti, lietis ' means to unite and the word ' lietuva ' means something which has been united ).

Among these was the Maison " Citrohan ", a pun on the name of the French Citroën automaker, for the modern industrial methods and materials Le Corbusier advocated using for the house.

Among the women who are specifically named in the New Testament of the Bible, Mary Magdalene ’ s name is one of the most frequently found.

Among those who don't believe are a son of Alma who also shares the name Alma ( but he is usually differentiated as " Alma the Younger "), and King's Mosiah's own sons.

: " 3 Among the disputed writings, which are nevertheless recognized by many, are extant the so-called epistle of James and that of Jude, also the second epistle of Peter, and those that are called the second and third of John, whether they belong to the evangelist or to another person of the same name.

Among the pub rock bands that formed that year was The 101 ' ers, whose lead singer would soon adopt the name Joe Strummer.

Among writers defining the terms of this discourse is Charles Jencks, described by Architectural Design Magazine as " the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years " and the " internationally acclaimed critic ..., whose name became synonymous with Post-modernism in the 80s ".

Among others, Lemmy Kilmister will invariably be referred to as " Lemmy out of Motörhead ", Bono as " Bonio " ( a brand of dog biscuit ) and Sting as " Sting ( real name Gordon Sting )", mixing the singer's birth and stage names.

Among programmers, yet another ( often abbreviated ya, Ya or YA in the initial part of an acronym ) is an idiomatic qualifier in the name of a computer program, organisation, or event that is confessedly unoriginal.

Among the Hindus of Bengal, it is common to see the name " swastika " ( shostik ) applied to a slightly different symbol, which has the same significance as the common swastika, and both symbols are used as auspicious signs.

126 Among the rarities .. was some fine ice cream, which, with the strawberries and milk, eat most deliciously .< ref name = oed >" ice cream, n ." The Oxford English Dictionary.

Among the critics of the views put forward in this book was a Jesuit, Francis Line ( 1595 – 1675 ), and it was while answering his objections that Boyle made his first mention of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely to the pressure of the gas, which among English-speaking people is usually called Boyle's Law after his name.

Among them was one woman, Zarrín Táj Bara < u > gh </ u > áni, a poetess, who later received the name of Táhirih ( the Pure ).

Among these objects are coins imprinted with the name Ithaca and the image of Odysseus which suggest that the island was self-governed.

Among the names that have been incorrectly asserted as having been the name he was born under are Matuschanskayasky, Matashansky and Matansky.

Among other honors, the Vladimir M. Komarov Astronautical Rocketry Club ( ARK ) in Ljubljana has also borne Komarov's name since 1969.

Among other issues, the referendum paved the way for national elections and for the country to become a constitutional monarchy, changing the country's official name from the State of Bahrain to the Kingdom of Bahrain ( a change which took effect in February 2002 ).

" Among the most prominent are the Irish ballad " Finnegan's Wake " from which the book takes its name, Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico's La Scienza Nuova, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the plays of Shakespeare, and religious texts such as the Bible and Qur ' an.