Many expatriates and well-heeled Singaporeans stay in this region.

Many Singaporeans also travel to Johor Bahru in Malaysia or Batam in Indonesia, to take advantage of price differences and differing product availability.

Many Singaporeans refer to Ngee Ann City as " Taka ", a slang-abbreviation of the anchor tenant's name, Takashimaya.

Many Singaporeans have invested in holiday homes in and around Port Dickson.

Many leading scientists including Newton and Huygens doubted that such a clock could ever be built and had more optimism for astronomical observations ( such as the Method of Lunar Distances ).

Many years later Jacques Monod pointed out to me that I did not appear to understand the correct use of the word dogma, which is a belief that cannot be doubted.

Many contemporary chroniclers doubted the sincerity of Frederick's illness, and their attitude may be explained by their pro-papal leanings.

Many doubted Strawn would be a success.

Many contemporaries and historians have doubted his suitability for this command, given his lack of familiarity with naval aviation.

Many human rights groups, however, doubted the efficacy of the proposed reforms, saying that the new laws would only help minor criminals and not help political prisoners, and that the reforms would not actually abolish the re-education through labor system.

Many virus analysts doubted if this payload would actually function.

Many doubted the young Mehmed II when he became sultan ( again ) following his father's death.

Many people doubted the claims we made against our former record label back in 1998 but with this announcement there is no denying we were the victims here.

Many observers, however, have doubted al-Maliki's commitment towards seeking a truly equitable resolution to the conflict ( on account of his Shia biases ).

Many scientists doubted that it could be studied on a large scale, or as a discipline in itself.

Many people condemned the latter war because they doubted U. S. and other claims about Saddam's relation to al-Qaida, about his possession of weapons of mass destruction ( WMDs ), and about the effectiveness of war as a means of containing WMDs, or because of the lack of United Nations support for war.

Even some contemporary American technical journals doubted that such a high speed had been attained: " Many are disposed to receive with doubt the statement that on May 9 the locomotive No. 999 of the New York Central railroad ran at the speed of 100 miles an hour, or that on a subsequent date she ran a single mile in 32 seconds.

Many have doubted the accuracy of this story and have instead related the " Negroes " to members of the local Siraya Tribe, who were massacred in the Lamey Island Massacre

Many inhabitants of the region the canal passed through doubted the 600-foot ( 183 m ) elevation difference between the Delaware River at Lackawaxen and the Hudson at Rondout could be sufficiently overcome.

Many inventors tried to fix these problems, but without commercial success.

Many cult films were independent films and were not expected by their creators to have mainstream success.

Many groups that were popular during the disco period subsequently struggled to maintain their success — even those that tried to adapt to evolving musical tastes.

Many of the people involved with INGRES became convinced of the future commercial success of such systems, and formed their own companies to commercialize the work but with an SQL interface.

Many of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, but he has never quite achieved the same success as in the 1970s.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Many Hollywood films with a British dimension ( based on British people, stories or events ) have had enormous worldwide commercial success.

Many KR methods were tried in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as heuristic question-answering, neural networks, theorem proving, and expert systems, with varying success.

Many French critics angrily rejected Wagner's music dramas while many French composers closely imitated them with variable success.

Many groups moved towards the beat music of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from skiffle, like the Quarrymen who became The Beatles, producing a form of rock and roll revivalism that carried them and many other groups to national success from about 1963 and to international success from 1964, known in America as the British Invasion.

Many of these bands enjoyed national success in the UK, but found it difficult to break into the American market.

Many other soap operas planned lavish storylines after the success of the All My Children shoot.

Many commented on how Gagarin's smile gained the attention of crowds on the frequent tours he did in the months after the Vostok 1 mission success.

Many factors, including the success of brands like Lindemans ( part of Foster's Group ) and Jacob's Creek in the UK, as well as Rosemount in the US and UK, were responsible for a dramatic expansion of plantings during the 1980s and 1990s ; a similar trajectory occurred in California.

Many of Besson's films have achieved popular, if not critical, success.

Many studies point to the success of strategy instruction, particularly for students who are poor comprehenders.

Many American cinematographers have gone on to become directors themselves: Barry Sonnenfeld, originally the Coen brothers ' DP, has gone on to have success as a director ; Jan de Bont, cinematographer on films as Die Hard and Basic Instinct went on to direct Speed and Twister.

" Many grunge artists were uncomfortable with their success and the resulting attention it brought.

Many different disagreements led to the fracture, for example ; while at the Fourth SI Conference in London in December, 1960, in a discussion about the political nature of the SI, the Gruppe SPUR members disagreed with the core situationist stance of counting on a revolutionary proletariat ; the accusation that their activities were based on a " systematic misunderstanding of situationist theses "; the understanding that at least one Gruppe SPUR member, sculptor Lothar Fischer, and possibly the rest of the group, were not actually understanding and / or agreeing with the situationist ideas, but were just using the SI to achieve success in the art market.

Many computerized wristwatches have been developed, but none have had long-term sales success, because they have awkward user interfaces due to the tiny screens and buttons, and a short battery life.

Many plant species and cultivars within species, including triticale, are recalcitrant in that the success rate of achieving whole newly generated ( diploid ) plants is very low.

Many domains, with a numerics focus, use limits logic to overcome the duck test necessity with varying degrees of success.

Many of its seats could be filled by a new wave of respectable political operatives, notables, who had joined the party after its 1984 success.

Many Australian bands and singers tried to enhance their careers by moving overseas, in particular to England, then seen as the mecca of popular music but few bands were successful and of those who relocated to the UK only The Seekers and The Bee Gees ( who were actually born and raised in the UK ) enjoyed any lasting success.