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 who call themselves Buddhists regard the Buddhist tradition, in contrast to most other world faiths, as nontheistic, humanistic and experientially-based.

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 them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.

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 of the refugee children being hidden in Chambon attended Cévenol and it was at this school that Grothendieck apparently first became fascinated with mathematics.

Many consider him the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of flight.

Many of his works were published posthumously in the first decades after his death.

Many Greek sculptures followed, notably the first purpose-built exhibition space, the Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman Sculpture, in 1805.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

Many cavers carry two or more sources of light-one as primary and the others as backup in case the first fails.

Many of the public works instituted in his reign were based on plans first suggested by Julius Caesar.

Many Indo-European languages, for example, obey " Wackernagel's Law ", which requires clitics to appear in " second position ", after the first syntactic phrase or the first stressed word in a clause:

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

Many systems have unintentionally resulted in the first possibility.

Many of these use the Faroese and Greenlandic languages, respectively, as their first language.

Many of the first films, such as those made by Auguste and Louis Lumière, were a minute or less in length, due to technological limitations.

Many regard it as one of the world's first examples of modern journalism.

Many tried in vain to prove the fifth postulate from the first four.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

Many of the Articles in Section I are structured in two paragraphs: the first sets out a basic right or freedom ( such as Article 2 ( 1 ) – the right to life ) but the second contains various exclusions, exceptions or limitations on the basic right ( such as Article 2 ( 2 ) – which excepts certain uses of force leading to death ).

Many early first ladies expressed their own preference for how they were addressed, including the use of such titles as " Lady ", " Mrs. President ", and " Mrs. Presidentress "; Martha Washington was often referred to as " Lady Washington.

Many first ladies, including Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, and Michelle Obama have been significant fashion trendsetters.

Many developments in first aid and many other medical techniques have been driven by wars, such as in the case of the American Civil War, which prompted Clara Barton to organize the American Red Cross.