Many of the sessions are sponsored by academic associations, universities, or publishers, while others are arranged by ad-hoc groups which are interested in a particular topic.

Many of these may be ad-hoc and buggy due to time constraints ( time for development of such tools is often not included in a game's schedule ) as well as because they are only for in-house use anyway.

Many parties are little more than ad-hoc electoral lists, formed by negotiation among influential local figures representing the various confessional communities ; these lists usually function only for the purpose of the election, and do not form identifiable groupings in the parliament subsequently.

Many recent MPs and in particular Ministers are recruited by lobby firms and lobbyists have been recruited by ministers as ' special advisors ' using what is termed the Revolving door of influence.

Many senior leaders often lobby directly or indirectly for their descendants and relatives to succeed them.

Many hotels, resorts, and cruise ships offer Internet access for the convenience of their guests ; this can take various forms, such as in-room wireless access, or a web browser that uses the in-room television set for its display ( usually in this case the hotel provides a wireless keyboard on the assumption that the guest will use it from the bed ), or computer ( s ) that guests can use, either in the lobby or in a business center.

Many politicians in Canada West began to lobby for representation by population as they no longer considered the equal representation mandated by the Act of Union to be just.

Many GSD fanciers like the white colour and continue to breed for the white coat ; some lobby for its acceptance into the breed standard, others argue for the creation of a new breed.

Many clubs have a lobby area where the cover charge, if any, is collected by a doorman or doorwoman and security personnel can do a quick check of prospective customers as they enter the facility.

Many would-be empresarios had congregated in Mexico to lobby for land grants.

Many malls and high-end residential towers are on the east side of the road. The residential towers however are not fully occupied because of the builder lobby sticking to unreasonable prices.

Many different and diverse action groups were formed ( and still remain ) in order to effectively lobby government.

Many are phototrophic, although some groups contain members that are mixotrophic, deriving energy both from photosynthesis and uptake of organic carbon either by osmotrophy, myzotrophy, or phagotrophy.

Many Ásatrú groups celebrate with blóts.

Many Coccidiomorpha have an intermediate host as well as a primary host, and the evolution of hosts proceeded in different ways and at different times in these groups.

Many western human rights groups state that civil rights and free expression are severely limited in Belarus, though there are some individuals and groups that refuse to be controlled and some journalists have disappeared.

Many organisations, including the police, not for profit, social or charitable groups with a regular need for group transport may find it practical or cost-effective to own and operate a bus for their own needs.

Many thousands of innocents were incarcerated as part the Leningrad Affair and the Doctor's Plot, while whole ethnic groups were deported to Siberia.

Many ethnic groups were involved, including ancestors of the Turks, Mongols, and Tibetans.

Many riders choose to ride together in groups of the same skill level to take advantage of drafting.

Many carbohydrates contain one or more modified monosaccharide units that have had one or more groups replaced or removed.

Many Capoeira groups include Maculelê in their presentations.

Many familiar groups, the rodents and the insects for example, are clades ; others, like the lizards and the monkeys, are not.

Many historical reenactment groups, especially those whose focus is Antiquity or the Middle Ages, commonly use mail both as practical armour and for costuming.

Many thousands of dissidents, deserters, or other people were arrested, tortured or executed by various Cheka groups.

Many groups sprang up independently of CND, some affiliating later.

Many of the existence proofs and some of the uniqueness proofs for the sporadic groups originally used computer calculations, most of which have since been replaced by shorter hand proofs.

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 Essene groups appear to have been celibate, but Josephus speaks also of another " order of Essenes " that observed the practice of being engaged for three years and then becoming married.

Many flame wars have been fought between groups insisting that their editor of choice is the paragon of editing perfection, and insulting the others.

Many Muslims object to the use of the term when referring to Islamist groups, and oppose being placed in the same category as Christian fundamentalists, whom they see as theologically incomplete.

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

Many groups of Guatemalan exiles were armed and trained by the CIA, and commanded by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas they invaded Guatemala on June 18, 1954.

* Compact groups or locally compact groups — Many of the results of finite group representation theory are proved by averaging over the group.

* Lie groups — Many important Lie groups are compact, so the results of compact representation theory apply to them.

Many of them sincerely believe that the use of liquor in any form or in any degree is intrinsically evil and sinful.

Many studies have observed the effects of volunteerism ( as a form of altruism ) on happiness and health and have consistently found a strong connection between volunteerism and current and future health and well-being.

Many protists also exist as individual amoeboid cells, or take such a form at some point in their life-cycle.

Many anarchists view capitalism as an inherently authoritarian and hierarchical system and therefore reject anarcho-capitalism as a form of anarchism.

Many agates are hollow, since deposition has not proceeded far enough to fill the cavity, and in such cases the last deposit commonly consists of drusy quartz, sometimes amethystine, having the apices of the crystals directed towards the free space so as to form a crystal-lined cavity or geode.

Many such are localised, and do not form part of general Australian use, while others, such as kangaroo, boomerang, budgerigar, wallaby and so on have become international.

Many of these tales have morals or some form of belief that is being taught.

Many Muslim musicians also perform a form of a cappella music called nasheed or Tawasheeh.

Many states still prohibit selling alcohol for on and off-premise sales in one form or another on Sundays at some restricted time, under the rationale that people should be in church on Sunday morning, or at least not drinking.

Many fundamental questions of craftsmanship versus mass production, the relationship of usefulness and beauty, the practical purpose of formal beauty in a commonplace object, and whether or not a single proper form could exist, were argued out among its 1, 870 members ( by 1914 ).

Many tekkes survive to this day, some in the form of mosques while others have become museums such as the Cerrahi Tekke and the Sünbül Efendi and Ramazan Efendi mosques and türbes in Fatih, the Galata Mevlevihanesi in Beyoğlu, the Yahya Efendi tekke in Beşiktaş, and the Bektaşi Tekke in Kadıköy, which now serves Alevi Muslims as a cemevi.

Many of Howard's original unedited Conan stories also form part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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

USASF / IASF Worlds: Many United States cheerleading organizations form and register the not-for-profit entity the United States All Star Federation ( USASF ) and also the International All Star Federation ( IASF ) to support international club cheerleading and the World Cheerleading Club Championships.

Many men, usually the younger brothers in a family would stress out, accept lower status serfdom in form of human lease, but one with the possibility of a stable love life, than the emotional trauma of high status and polyandry.

Many mythologies involve a " world center ", which is often the sacred place of creation ; this center often takes the form of a tree, mountain, or other upright object, which serves as an axis mundi or axle of the world.

Many ecclesias organise holidays for young people, the most popular form in the UK being camping holidays and Youth Weekends such as Swanwick and others locally organised by different ecclesias.

Many elements and chemical compounds aside from these form diatomic molecules when evaporated.

Many historical linguists view any speech form as a dialect of the older medium of communication from which it developed.

Many phoneticians ( especially those trained in the British school ) resort to it constantly as a quick and convenient form of reference.

Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives.

Many of the stricter communities of the Reformed and Presbyterian denominations practice a form of restricted Communion, which they designate Close Communion ( to distinguish it from the closed communion system mentioned above ).

Many mainline Protestant churches offer communicants gluten-free alternatives to wheaten bread, usually in the form of a rice-based cracker or gluten-free bread.

Many Methodist churches ( see The United Methodist Church, among others ) retain the form and function of episcopal polity, although in a modified form, called connexionalism.