Among Noonan's backers was a former slave, George B. Jackson, a businessman in San Angelo often called " the wealthiest black man in Texas " in the late 19th century.

Among the refugees was the Lin clan, one of the wealthiest clans in Taiwan at the time.

Among the candidates to the hand of one of the wealthiest women in Europe were Charles de Bourbon-Condé, Count of Charolais supported by France ( Louis XV even invited Maria Zofia to Versailles ), Portuguese infante Dom Manuel de Bragança supported by the Habsburgs ( proposed as the next King of Poland, due to the tenets of the Löwenwolde's Treaty ), Jan Klemens Branicki, Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Jan Tarło and August Aleksander Czartoryski, who eventually won the competition full of duels and speech encounters due to support of Augustus II, as the latter was afraid of increase of power of his opponents.

Among the poorest 20 % of the population, the share of births attended by skill health personnel was 29 % in 2005 / 2006 as compared to 77 % among the wealthiest 20 % of the population.

Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.

Among the Israelites, men commonly acknowledged their concubines, and such women enjoyed the same rights in the house as legitimate wives.

Among American university students, for both men and women, support for feminist ideas is more common than self-identification as a feminist.

Among the dead were the Roman Consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus, as well as two consuls for the preceding year, two quaestors, twenty-nine out of the forty-eight military tribunes and an additional eighty senators ( at a time when the Roman Senate comprised no more than 300 men, this constituted 25 %– 30 % of the governing body ).

Among these men was Heracles ' servant Hylas who was gathering water while Heracles was out finding some wood to carve a new oar to replace the one that broke.

*" Among the Arapesh, both men and women were peaceful in temperament and neither men nor women made war.

*" Among the Mundugumor, the opposite was true: both men and women were warlike in temperament.

Among the Cherokee, records show that slave holders in the tribe were largely the children of European men that had shown their children the economics of slavery.

Among the most noteworthy elements of the text are its non-linear plot, and the influence on events of choices made by women and serfs, besides the actions of fighting men.

" Among radical feminists, the view became widely held that, thus far, the sexual freedoms gained in the sexual revolution of the 1960s — in particular, the decreasing emphasis on monogamy — had been largely gained by men at women's expense.

Among the Barasana of Brazil, there is no absolute difference between those men recognized as shamans and those who are not.

Among the nominations were such notable men such as Lorenzo Campeggio, Giambattista Pallavicini, Adrian of Utrecht, Thomas Cajetan, Cristoforo Numai and Egidio Canisio.

Among Rigvedic deities, notably Ushas ( the dawn ) rides in a chariot, as well as Agni in his function as a messenger between gods and men.

Among these classes of prostitutes were the auletrides: female dancers, acrobats, and musicians, noted for dancing naked in an alluring fashion in front of audiences of men.

Among the main workers on the Union Pacific were many Army veterans and Irish emigrants while most of the engineers were ex-Army men who had learned their trade keeping the trains running during the American Civil War.

Among the most damaging of the numerous strikes during Wilson's periods in office was a six-week stoppage by the National Union of Seamen, beginning shortly after Wilson's re-election in 1966, and conducted, he claimed, by " politically motivated men ".

Among the Rendille of north-eastern Kenya and the Tchikrin people of the Brazilian rainforest, both men and women shave their heads after the death of a close family member.

Among many, perhaps most, African-Americans in the antebellum period up to today, Turner's legacy takes on a heroic status as someone willing to make slave-owners pay for the hardships that they enacted upon the millions of children, women and men they enslaved.

The architrave is decorated with a sculpture of Christ Among the Evangelists and various representations of men, animals and plants.

Among the Tuareg, Songhai, Moors, Hausa and Fulani of West Africa, women do not traditionally wear the veil, while men do.

Among those that followed David to Hebron to make him king were 50, 000 fully armed men of Zebulun with no double heart ( I Chronicles 12: 33 ), who brought with them, as sign of their hearty allegiance, bounteous supplies of meat and drink to celebrate the accession of their new ruler ( I Chronicles 12: 41 ).

Among the things which had been hastily brought away by the men was a " piece of a black stone ,".

Among his creations are a battering ram 60 metres long and requiring 1, 000 men to operate it and a wheeled siege tower named " Helepolis " ( or " Taker of Cities ") which stands 40 metres tall and 20 metres wide and weighs 180 tons.

Among his creations were a battering ram long, requiring 1000 men to operate it ; and a wheeled siege tower named " Helepolis " ( or " Taker of Cities ") which stood tall and wide, weighing 360, 000 pounds.

Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

Among prominent Fifth Monarchists were Thomas Harrison, Christopher Feake, Vavasor Powell, John Carew, John Rogers and Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the Admiralty and later of the British East India Company.

Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions in the 60th ( Royal Americans ) was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management ( including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and ' battle-dress `) would become universal in the British Army some 150 years later.

* Among the Syriac manuscripts obtained from the Nitrian desert in Egypt, British Museum, London: important Greek texts, Add.

Some spinels are among the most famous gemstones: Among them is the Black Prince's Ruby and the ' Timur ruby ' in the British Crown Jewels, and the ' cote de Bretagne ' formerly from the French Crown jewels.

Among Protestants the strong numbers of Lutherans and Moravians point to the German past of the country, the numbers of Anglicans to the British history of Tanganyika.

Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East.

Among other activities, Banks found time to serve as a trustee of the British Museum for 42 years.

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.

Among other accolades, it was ranked number 16 in Q Magazine's " The 50 Best British Albums Ever " in 2004, and number 11 in Rolling Stone's " The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time " as featured in their Mexican edition in 2004.

Among other demands, the mission sought increased compensation for its former Duars territories, but instead the British deducted nearly 3, 000 rupees from the annual compensation and demanded an apology for alleged plundering of British-protected lands by members of the mission.

Among the issues giving rise to tension between the Transvaal government on the one hand, and the Uitlanders and British interests on the other, were

Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 ( which he termed " an insolent parade ") and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre ( see illustration ).

Among the more challenging political dilemmas Wilson faced during his two terms in government and his two spells in Opposition before 1964 and between 1970 and 1974 was the issue of British membership of the European Community, the forerunner of the present European Union.

Among the members of the British patrol was Banastre Tarleton.

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

Among his best-known early works are the illustrations he produced for The Book of British Ballads ( 1842 ), and a frontispiece he designed for The Kentish Coronal ( 1840 ).

Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women.

Among the first pointed or " conical " bullets were those designed by Captain John Norton of the British Army in 1823.

Among these is Anna's Hummingbird, a common resident from California inland to southern Arizona and north to southwestern British Columbia.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

* 1989 British Academy Television Award, Best Single Drama: A Bed Among the Lentils ( shared with Innes Lloyd )

Among the donations were $ 1 million each by the governments of British Columbia and Ontario, the former to create a new research institute to be founded in Fox's name, and the latter an endowment given to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation.

Among the most controversial in British history, it systematically raised taxes on the rich, especially the landowners, to pay for the welfare programmes ( and for new battleships ).