Many Westerners who first encountered the practice believed it was a sign of worship, but kowtowing does not necessarily have religious overtones in traditional Chinese culture.

Many Westerners consider the punishments prescribed by some countries ' interpretation of Islamic law to be " barbaric and cruel ".

Many Westerners were living in the city at that time, conducting trade or on missionary trips.

Many Westerners confuse Budai with Gautama Buddha.

Many Westerners were living in the Chinese capital city of the time, as Nanking was until December 1937, conducting trade or on missionary trips.

Many Westerners preferred familiar music about themselves and their environment.

Many Westerners falsely imagined a harem as a brothel consisting of many sensual young women lying around pools with oiled bodies, with the sole purpose of pleasing the powerful man to whom they had given themselves.

Many Westerners were living in the city at that time, conducting trade or on missionary trips.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

There is one other point we should never lose sight of: Many veterans who enter VA hospitals as non-service cases later qualify as service-connected.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

Many definitions of art have been proposed by philosophers and others who have characterized art in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values.

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

Many experts at the time, including Arthur Galston, the biologist who developed and intensively studied TCDD, opposed herbicidal warfare, due to concerns about the side effects to humans and the environment by indiscriminately spraying the chemical over a wide area.

Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.

Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to her eldest son Noel who was often ill.

Many phrases are characteristic of the German reformer Martin Bucer, or of the Italian Peter Martyr, ( who was staying with Cranmer at the time of the finalising of drafts ), or of his chaplain, Thomas Becon.

Many ordinary churchgoers — that is, those who could afford a copy, as it was expensive — would own a copy of the prayer book.

Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.

Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness.

Many who lived in cities had lost the skills necessary for survival in an agrarian environment.

Many of the Yakoma soldiers who left the country after the mutinies in 1996 – 1997 have now returned and must also be reintegrated into the army.

Many, but not all, who consider themselves cognitive scientists have a functionalist view of the mind — the view that mental states are classified functionally, such that any system that performs the proper function for some mental state is considered to be in that mental state.

Many older strips are no longer drawn by the original cartoonist, who has either died or retired.

Many of the Scots who immigrated there were either Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, which can be seen in a number of island landmarks and place names.

Many who thought themselves smarter.

Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.

" 19: 25-27 Again, the prophet Daniel writes, " Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Many of those players came from the Indians ' new AAA farm team, the Charlotte Knights, who won the International League title that year.

Many who were hired to head those departments were so-called " nestlings of Kerensky " (), the former convicts ( political and criminal ) that released by the Kerensky amnesty.

Many of the individual projects for which development assistance is required call for expenditures over lengthy periods.

Many anti-globalization activists call for forms of global integration that better provide democratic representation, advancement of human rights, fair trade and sustainable development and therefore feel the term " anti-globalization " is misleading.

Many of the songs are sung in a call and response format while others are in the form of a narrative.

Many classes have methods that call their own functions, thereby looking and feeling like most other OO languages.

Many mathematicians feel that to call their area a science is to downplay the importance of its aesthetic side, and its history in the traditional seven liberal arts ; others feel that to ignore its connection to the sciences is to turn a blind eye to the fact that the interface between mathematics and its applications in science and engineering has driven much development in mathematics.

Many Christians call their prophet Jesus of Nazareth the " Prince of Peace ", and see him as a messiah ( savior or deliverer ), the " Christ ", who manifested as the Son of God on Earth to establish God's Kingdom of Peace, wherein persons, societies, and all of Creation are to be healed of evil.

Many contemporary Andean Quechua speakers still call it runasimi ( or regional variants thereof ), literally " people speech ", although " runa " here has the more specific sense of " indigenous Andean " people.

Many embedded systems and RTOSs, however, allow the application itself to run in kernel mode for greater system call efficiency and also to permit the application to have greater control of the operating environment without requiring OS intervention.

Many Conservatives still call themselves " Tory " to differentiate themselves from opponents, and the term is common in the media.

; Trampolines: Many CPUs have smaller subroutine call instructions to access low memory.

Many applications call for a crystal oscillator frequency conveniently related to some other desired frequency, so hundreds of standard crystal frequencies are made in large quantities and stocked by electronics distributors.

Many authors call a variogram, others use the terms variogram and semivariogram synonymously.

Many different proposals for socialist economic systems call for a type of mixed economy, where multiple forms of ownership over the means of production co-exist with one another.

Many software vendors use the call to create the appearance of multitasking, by transferring control back to the terminated program on automatic or externally-generated events, such as pressing a certain key on the keyboard.

Many 76ers fans call these years " The Dark Ages ".

Many people prefer to call themselves software developer and programmer, because most widely agree what these terms mean, while software engineer is still being debated.

Many Kshatriya clans in India associate them with Chandra and call it Chandra Vansh.

Many Senegalese people wear amulets which they call gris-gris.

Many locals prefer to simply call it Benecìa, which is also used by most of the local media.

Many Christians of various theological perspectives would call themselves " evangelists " because they are spreaders of the gospel.

Many nationally-known organizations and businesses call Owings Mills home.

Many endangered species call Sag Harbor home such as the eastern tiger salamander which inhabits wetlands surrounding the village.

Many older documents refer to " Darby's Corners ," which was the intersection of what we now call Simmons, Mothersill and Middle Rd.

Many surviving descendants of these original Czech families still call Malin home and maintain family farms.

" Many of the town's young men became boatmen and were well known along the length of the canal for their distinctive call, " Shawnee against the World.