Writers Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri have together in their books ( Empire & Multitude ) expanded on this idea of a disunified multitude: humans coming together for shared causes, but lacking the complete sameness of the notion of ' the people '.

You will see a multitude of tiny particles mingling in a multitude of ways ... their dancing is an actual indication of underlying movements of matter that are hidden from our sight ...

A multitude of modes of operations have been designed to allow their repeated use in a secure way, commonly to achieve the security goals of encryption and authentication.

Then, through casting lots, the princes chose among the " strongest and ablest " among their people to " go into foreign nations, to procure themselves sustenance, and free their native country from a superfluous multitude of people.

Both the Epistles and the Apocalypse, however, presuppose that their author John belonged to the multitude of personal eyewitnesses of the life and work of Christ ( cf.

A single listing of pianists in all genres would be impractical, given the multitude of musicians noted for their performances on the instrument.

With this all Roman able-bodied, property-owning male citizens were divided into five classes for military service based on their wealth and then organised into centuries as sub-units of the greater Roman army or legio ( multitude ).

Other stars are visible from Earth during the night when they are not obscured by atmospheric phenomena, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points because of their immense distance.

Since this cause has been pending in this court, we have been favored, in addition to briefs of counsel and various amici curiae, with a multitude of resolutions, addresses, and communications from scientific bodies, religious factions, and individuals giving us the benefit of their views upon the theory of evolution.

Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty ; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind ".

During the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, it is theorized that a multitude of hand-held thermobaric weapons were used by the Russian Armed Forces in their efforts to retake the school.

During a shower, a multitude of meteors arrive from the same direction, and, from the perspective of an observer, their glowing trails appear to radiate from a single point in space.

" If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long — as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.

Archaeologist Stephen Aldhouse-Green notes that while Wales has a " multitude " of Mesolithic sites, their settlements were " focused on the coastal plains ", the uplands were " exploited only by specialist hunting groups ".

But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads ; there is a great multitude of women coming and going ; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice.

The result is that developers and their management created a multitude of control protocols.

As he did, it was reported by the same witnesses that a " multitude of Indians, who completely filled the square, saw that lamentable spectacle knew that their lord and Inca was to die, they deafened the skies, making them reverberate with their cries and wailing.

Parker Hall proposes an empathic therapeutic relationship to support clients to develop or recover their organismic capacity ( Rogers, 1951 ) to process their often multitude of traumas ( unprocessed life events ).

Popular by acts of graceful but corrupting generosity, by charming manners, and by the appeal of hereditary honours-they collected the material power granted by a multitude of clients and followers, and the intellectual power provided by the monopoly of philosophical education ; their taste in the fine arts, and their knowledge of stylish literature.

He therefore argued that, while some individuals may have henotheistically chosen one god to worship, Egyptian religion as a whole had no notion of a divine being beyond the immediate multitude of deities.

Adler noted that it was this belief in polytheism that had allowed the " multitude " of different Pagan religions to " exist more or less in harmony ", as in enabled them to accept the existence and worship of one another's deities.

In the mid-19th century, a multitude of small breweries grew into existence in all the larger cities of Sweden, and every town had to have at least one brewery, if nothing else for sating the local patriotism.

A source from the 12th century, Liber Eliensis, written by the monks at Ely, suggests that Byrhtnoth had only a few men to command: " he was neither shaken by the small number of his men, nor fearful of the multitude of the enemy ".

They were weak at first, when they were separated from the Pelasgians, but they grew from a small group into a multitude, especially when many peoples, including other barbarians in great numbers, had joined them.

At that time, Rome had delegates from a multitude of nations, from Armenia to Russia, Greece and various parts of north and east Africa.

Since then, she has had both leading and supporting roles in a multitude of films that received varied critical and box office receptions, including films such as Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Taxi, Kung Faux, Beauty Shop, and Hairspray.

A unified Irish proto-state had been coalescing from the multitude of small tribal kingdoms that existed circa AD 500, similar to the pattern elsewhere in Europe.

'" Returning toward Antioch, the troops of Antiochus sacked Jerusalem and removed the sacred objects from the Jerusalem Temple, slaughtering an unknown, but large, number of Jews :" And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude, And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof ... And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly. Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every place where they were.

There was dispute among the Māori as to who owned the land at atime when even the word ownership had a multitude of meanings to Maori that were alien to the settlers.

Since 1719, when the influence of the few great territorial families had been merged in a multitude of needy gentlemen, the first estate had become the nursery and afterwards the stronghold of an opposition at once noble and democratic which found its natural leaders in such men as Count Carl Gyllenborg and Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.

In the 1950s, many professors who had been removed because of their alleged affiliation with the Nazi party were allowed to return and a multitude of new institutes were founded.

And when he came to the pit, he descended down one hundred and fifty steps, bearing with him two lanterns, and found the dragon, and said the words that S. Peter had said to him, and bound his mouth with the thread, and sealed it, and after returned, and as he came upward again he met with two enchanters which followed him for to see if he descended, which were almost dead of the stench of the dragon, whom he brought with him whole and sound, which anon were baptized, with a great multitude of people with them.

Defever's early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies ; he suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times, a burst appendix, a cyst on his tonsils and asthma.

When the moment arrived for the recitation of the names of the defunct bishops from the diptychs, the multitude closed in silence about the holy table ; and when the deacon had read the new insertions, a mighty shout arose, " Glory be to Thee, O Lord!

Zeus, primarily, and also Poseidon, both had a multitude of affairs with mortal women, with Zeus having to shield them from his wife Hera after she was alerted to the infidelity.

" The lesser punishment – to be stood in the pillory – was by no means a lenient one, for the victims often had to fear for their lives at the hands of an enraged multitude armed with brickbats as well as filth and curses.

Traditionally, these skills had been passed along through apprenticeships, however, more recently Jewelry Arts Schools specializing solely in teaching goldsmithing and a multitude of skills falling under the jewelry arts umbrella are available.

Major Andre walked from the stone house, in which he had been confined, between two of our subaltern officers, arm in arm ; the eyes of the immense multitude were fixed on him, who, rising superior to the fears of death, appeared as if conscious of the dignified deportment which he displayed.

His son, Alexander, arrived in Athens with a Macedonian army, while a rabid multitude of Athenians returned home, expecting revenge against the politicians who had exiled them.

The scattered tribes of Khoisan peoples moving into South Africa from around 10, 000 BC had their own fluent art styles seen today in a multitude of cave paintings.

A multitude of airports around the Alps ( and some within ), as well as long-distance rail links from all neighbouring countries, afford large numbers of travellers easy access from abroad.

He regarded material substance as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, referring all generation and disappearance to mixture and separation respectively.

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

Chance, one would say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals ; a small number found themselves constructed in such a manner that the parts of the animal were able to satisfy its needs ; in another infinitely greater number, there was neither fitness nor order: all of these latter have perished.

Through a multitude of complicated tariff schedule revisions, the act made almost all woolen goods subject to the maximum duty rate.

A multitude of do-dos appear, all agreeing.

A great festival, called the Feast of Lamps, was held annually in her honor and, according to Herodotus, her devotees burned a multitude of lights in the open air all night during the celebration.

The network of mainly informal gardens displays a multitude of exotic and delicate plants from as far afield as Chile, Madeira and Tasmania, all sheltered by windbreaks of pine trees and ornamental rhododendrons.

" Warren Hill " overlooks the town and consists of 3 all weather canters and a multitude of grass canters.

The gods sent " a multitude of field-mice, which devoured all the quivers and bowstrings of the enemy, and ate the thongs by which they managed their shields.

It's a great tool for a multitude of people who need to see all built-in calendar events in Task List view ( therefore Google Calendar, MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo !, AOL, etc

On one hand, we all feel like we have free will, a multitude of behavioral choices to select among.

Gonzaga University offers a multitude of intramural and club sports for each season, open to all students, and over 72 % of the student population participates.

[...] It could be applied to a multitude of topics, practically all anatomical, morphological, physiological, pathological, and psychological features and characteristics -- " from the dimensions of the skull measurements, structure of spine, red hair, the shape of the ear, the pattern of fingerprints, hemogram, or disposition to tuberculosis, all the way to conceptions of morals, criminality, performance in school or talent for playing chess.

They developed a multitude of games in all kinds of different shapes – animals, houses and other objects-whereas the development in the western world revolved mainly around geometrical shapes.

He often uses his car's multitude of gadgets to help out the other drivers if they all get caught in the same trap.

In Europe and North America, so-called " world music " acts came from all over the world and played in a multitude of styles.

At a Washington, D. C. convention in 1935, Rutherford rejected Russell's teaching that the " great company " of Revelation 7: 9 was a " secondary spiritual class " composed of millions of Christians who would be resurrected to heaven apart from the 144, 000 " elect ", and instead argued that the " great multitude ", the " sheep " of Matthew 25 and the " Jonadabs " of 2 Kings chapter 10 all picture the people who could potentially survive Armageddon and receive everlasting human life on earth if they became Jehovah's Witnesses before it began.