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 the communities that were to be founded were Cape May, New Jersey and Salem, New Jersey.

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 other primates, he is considered as primus inter pares.

Among active contemporary analytical chemistry research fields, micro total analysis system is considered as a great promise of revolutionary technology.

Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven's greatest works, and is considered by some to be the greatest piece of music ever written.

Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.

Among Tuaregs, the four most visible stars of Crux are considered iggaren, i. e. four Maerua crassifolia trees.

Among other marriages being considered for the queen, Robert Dudley was regarded as a possible candidate for nearly another decade.

Among those films not themselves considered film noirs, perhaps none had a greater effect on the development of the genre than America's own Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the landmark motion picture directed by Orson Welles.

Among them, the Hokke came to be considered as the leaders of the entire clan.

Among modern critics, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique wrote, " In the end, Destroy All Monsters is too slim in its storyline, too thin in its characterizations, to be considered a truly great film.

Among the Mandaeans, Jesus was considered a mšiha kdaba or " false messiah " who perverted the teachings entrusted to him by John the Baptist.

Among the gnostics, gnosis was first and foremost a matter of self-knowledge, which was considered the path leading to the goal of enlightenment as the hidden knowledge of the various pre-Judeo-Christian pagan Mystery-Religions.

Among books on the list considered to be the Great American Novel were: Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man and To Kill a Mockingbird.

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

Among the early Church Fathers, Joshua is considered a type of Jesus Christ.

Among those controversially considered by the official committees of the diagnostic manuals include self-defeating personality disorder, sadistic personality disorder, passive-aggressive personality disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Among these is who is considered the patriarch of Russian geography: Mikhail Lomonosov who in the mid-1750s began working in the Department of Geography, Academy of Sciences to conduct research in Siberia, their contributions are notable in this regard, shows the soil organic origin, develops a comprehensive law on the movement of the ice that still governs the basics, thereby founding a new branch of Geography: Glaciology.

" Among those included were the previous decrees placing various heliocentric works on the Index ("... which we will should be considered as though it were inserted in these presents, together with all, and singular, the things contained therein ...") and using his Apostolic authority he bound the faithful to its contents ("... and approve with Apostolic authority by the tenor of these presents, and: command and enjoin all persons everywhere to yield this Index a constant and complete obedience ...") Subsequent to Alexander VII's pontificate, the Index underwent a number of revisions.

Among these, politics in the broader sense is considered the pre-eminent topic of satire.

Among these Shires of Virginia, the five noted above are considered to be still existent in somewhat their same political form in Virginia as of 2006, though three of them have vanished.

In the 1961 decision, Justice Hugo Black commented in a footnote, " Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.

Among Sephardic Jews food is served to the visitors and it is considered a mitzvah to make a blessing on the food in the merit of the deceased.

Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was considered a virtuous pagan, while the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon popularized the notion of the Five Good Emperors, of which Trajan was the second.

Among grain vodkas, rye and wheat vodkas are generally considered superior.