Many factors contributed to the growth of the European movement.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.

Many European countries, such as Germany, ban most Sunday shopping.

Many European countries still place strong restrictions on store opening hours on Sundays, an example being Germany's Ladenschlussgesetz.

Many British Standards ( BSs ) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards ( BS EN, BS ISO ) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom.

Many Central European countries and regions were parts of the German Empire | German and the Austro-Hungarian empires ; thus they also have historical and cultural connections.

Many European designers immigrated to the U. S. since the economy was recovering.

Many European languages do not distinguish clearly between the two though.

Many European and American admirers such as Voltaire and H. G. Creel point to the revolutionary idea of replacing nobility of blood with nobility of virtue.

Many of the European armies henceforth imitated this all-purpose set of weaponry.

Many French people are uninterested in such matters: only 40 % of the French electorate voted in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

Many Greeks either fled to other European nations or to geographically isolated areas ( i. e. mountains and heavily forested territories ) in order to escape foreign rule.

Many European countries took action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before 1990.

Many of these nacent states formed the core of many modern European countries.

Many international hedge fund markets are affected by regulation passed in 2010 within the United States and European Union.

Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

Many European monarchs were related due to political marriages, sometimes resulting in distant cousins ( and even first cousins ) being married.

Many of Africa's borders were artificially imposed by European colonial powers.

Many European Soviet citizens and much of Russia's industry were relocated to Kazakhstan during World War II, when Nazi armies threatened to capture all the European industrial centers of the Soviet Union.

Many nations have used the system, including the United States, Japan, and several European countries.

Many other European languages have one lateral and one rhotic phoneme.

Many European sailors were shipwrecked on the coasts of the island, among them Robert Drury, whose journal is one of the few written depictions of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

Many nations and NGOs argued for a total ban on shipment of all hazardous waste to LDCs.

Many industrialized nations also began to utilize EVM in their own procurement programs.

Many nations ascribe to and follow, to varying degrees, international agreements regarding environmental issues.

Many nations and ethnic groups have tried to assert themselves as ethnic, or cultural successors to the Huns.

Many Jeep variants serving similar military and civilian roles have since been created in other nations.

Many nations are subdivided into states and provinces ( i. e. a subnational " state ").

Many nations, including the United States and Canada, and the European Union, have imposed investment and trade sanctions on Burma.

Many other small or distant nations have no formal diplomatic relations with Niamey except through their respective consulates at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Many nations have laws protecting minority rights.

Many African nations use red, yellow, and green, including Ghana, Cameroon, Mali and Senegal.

Many tribal cultures balance individual ownership with the laws of collective groups: tribes, families, associations and nations.

Many South American, Central American, and African nations follow the presidential model.

Many nations had elite upper houses of legislatures, the members of which often had lifetime tenure, but eventually these houses lost power ( as in Britain's House of Lords ), or else became elective and remained powerful ( as in the United States Senate ).

Many others were captured and prosecuted by Allied authorities at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes, and absconding SS criminals were the targets of police forces in various Allied nations, post-war West and East Germany, Austria, and Israel.

Many nations used silver as the basic unit of monetary value.

Many nations currently have moratoria on either ES cell research or the production of new ES cell lines.

Many slaves were taken in the wars with the Christian nations of medieval Europe.

Many nations are taking direct steps to protect the ecology of the taiga by prohibiting logging, mining, oil and gas production, and other forms of development.

Many more nations became aware of EMC as a growing problem and issued directives to the manufacturers of digital electronic equipment, which set out the essential manufacturer requirements before their equipment could be marketed or sold.

Many archipelagoes and island nations have an overwhelming majority of its exposed bedrock made up by basalt due to being above hotspots, for example, Iceland and Hawaii

Many nations sent oceanographic observations to Maury at the Naval Observatory, where he and his colleagues evaluated the information and gave the results worldwide distribution.