Among some communities, such as the Sakalava, Merina and Betsimisaraka, leaders seized the opportunity to unite these disparate communities and establish true kingdoms under their rule.

Among these movements, the most famous being that of the Maroons, slaves who escaped their masters and in the shelter of the forest communities organized free communities.

Among communities from these areas, khat chewing has a long history as a social custom dating back thousands of years.

Among communities part in the Serb ethnogenesis are the Romanized Paleo-Balkan tribes of Illyrians, Thracians and Dacians, Celts, Greek colonies and Romans.

Among these former communities, Bowser Station, Dorsey Station, Mollie, Silas, and Slocum all had post offices during the 19th century.

Among those reasons the report cites: Vilsack has repeatedly demonstrated a preference for large industrial farms and genetically modified crops ; as Iowa state governor, he originated the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, effectively blocking local communities from regulating where genetically engineered crops would be grown ; additionally, Vilsack was the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership, and was named Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, an industry lobbying group.

Among them are two Churches of Christ ( non-instrumental ), three Roman Catholic churches, four Lutheran churches, three Methodist churches, over a dozen Baptist churches, two LDS Churches, the Bullhead Islamic Center, two Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls, two Episcopal churches, two Seventh-day Adventist churches, Unity Church of the Mohave Valley, two Assemblies of God, Foursquare ( Spirit Life Church ), Calvary Chapel, Temple Israel Ba Midbor ( Jewish services in Laughlin ), and active Neo-Pagan ( Coven of the Canyon and River ) and Buddhist communities ( Soka Gakkai Colorado River District ).

Among communities in the United States with populations of 500 or more, Harwood Heights has the second highest percentage of residents born in Poland ( 18. 8 %).

Among those communities which suffered the consequences of that flood was Tiffin, located on the Sandusky River in northwest Ohio.

Among the largest communities in Fresno are the six neighborhoods that make up the Fort Bend MUD # 23 area.

Among the few regions where such comparatively traditional communities could be found, and the Manchu language was still widely spoken, were the Aigun District ( whose folkways the Russian ethnographer S. M. Shirokogoroff studied in 1915-1916 ) and the Tsitsihar District of Heilongjiang Province.

Among other things, human dignity means having a positive sense of self and instilling individuals with respect for the communities to which they belong.

Among other Morisco communities, they were known for their knowledge of the Qur ' an and the Sunna and Valencia " Alfaquíes " were known to travel throughout Spain as teachers for other Morisco communities.

Among pastoralist communities in East Africa, such as the Nandi, Tugen and Maasai communities, ghee and flocculated byproducts ( kamaek ) from ghee-making were traditionally used as cooking oil.

Among the biggest indigenous communities there are the Andira Marau, Munduruku and the Kayapó.

Among British and North American ecologists, the notion of a stable climax vegetation has been largely abandoned, and successional processes have come to be seen as much less deterministic, with important roles for historical contingency and for alternate pathways in the actual development of communities.

Among Adam's descendants there were many brave and pious men, greatly loved and revered by their respective communities.

Among other things, it reported that Francophones were underrepresented in the nation's political and business communities.

Among the listed sites are also communities that have been created so that players of video games may compete against each other for fast times and high scores.

Among the unique communities formed by the 19th-century rubber boom immigration was one of Sephardic Jews from Morocco.

Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.

Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

Among foreign countries responding were Germany, Canada, Brazil and India.

Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;

Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.

Among them were a number of newsmen, including Henry Raymont, of United Press International, and Robert Berrellez, of Associated Press.

Among his gangland buddies, he said, were Joseph ( Joey ) Glimco, a mob labor racketeer, and four gang gambling chiefs, Gus ( Slim ) Alex, Ralph Pierce, Joe ( Caesar ) DiVarco, and Jimmy ( Monk ) Allegretti.

Among the witnesses were Ed J. Lee, director of McCormick Place ; ;

Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.

Among major industrial centers closed to curtail pollution were the Nairit Chemical Plant, the Alaverdy Metallurgical Plant, and the Vanadzor Chemical Combine.

Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.

Among subsequent possessors were Scott's son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, J. R. Hope Scott, Q. C., and his daughter ( Scott's great-granddaughter ), the Hon.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.

Among Ammonius ' other pupils there were Herennius and Cassius Longinus.

Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result ( from 1942 to 1946, most intensively ).

" Among the Oxford Group practices AA retained were informal gatherings, a " changed-life " developed through " stages ", and working with others for no material gain.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.