Many patents worldwide are testaments to failed attempts at making these pens commercially viable and widely available.

Many attempts have been made at identifying its origins.

Many lives were lost in futile attempts to charge across the no man's land where these crossfires were set up.

Many of the routes listed below are in poor condition and may be operating at only a fraction of their original capacity ( if at all ), despite recent attempts to make improvements.

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

Many of these attempts brought him unfavorable criticism from the press and garnered him constant rebukes by his father, who nonetheless provided him with small sums for living expenses.

Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – a phenomenon widely known as climate change denial.

Many Indians view the war as a betrayal of India's attempts at establishing a long-standing peace with China and started to question Nehru's usage of the term " Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai " ( meaning " Indians and Chinese are brothers ").

Many low-end entertainment systems have a karaoke mode that attempts to remove the vocal track from regular audio CDs, using an Out Of Phase Stereo ( OOPS ) technique.

Many sonar attempts had been made previously, but most were either inconclusive or negative.

Many attempts were made to adapt the existing systems to have better performance, but the overhead was always considerable and most of these efforts required the user-space programs to be moved back into the kernel.

Many attempts were made to improve the performance of Mach and Mach-like microkernels, but by the mid-1990s much of the early intense interest had died.

Many opera companies have experienced a similar trend, and opera company websites are replete with attempts to attract a younger audience.

Many attempts have been made to derive its value ( currently measured at about 1 / 137. 035999 ) from theory, but so far none have succeeded.

Many attempts were made to imitate it in Italy and France.

Many of the PCC's attempts at organizing peasants, were met with violent repression by the Colombian government, and landowning class.

Many active sabotage attempts were against critical rail lines of transportation.

Many attempts by the ROC to rejoin the UN, in recent years, have not made it past committee, under fierce opposition and threatened vetoes from the PRC.

Many attempts have been made to amend the Constitution to allow Congress to prohibit the desecration of the flag.

Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental word play, lists and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.

Many attempts have been made to broker a two-state solution, involving the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside an independent Jewish state or next to the State of Israel ( after Israel's establishment in 1948 ).

Many of the corporate raiders of the 1980s were onetime clients of Michael Milken, whose investment banking firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert helped raise blind pools of capital which corporate raiders could use to make legitimate attempts to take over companies and provide high-yield debt financing of the buyouts.

Many attempts were made to restore the old Mission from the early 20th century, but it was not until the Hearst Foundation gave a large gift of money in the 1940s, that the Mission was finally restored.

Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidotera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.

Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as " The Harder They Come ," " Sitting in Limbo ", " You Can Get It If You Really Want " and " Many Rivers to Cross " from the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world ; and his covers of Cat Stevens ' " Wild World " and Johnny Nash's " I Can See Clearly Now " from the film Cool Runnings.

Many examples of his work can be seen at the Cal Earth Institute in Hesperia, CA, which he established in 1986 to popularize his ideas about natural construction techniques.

Many of these people tried to popularize Viennese-style songs with Hungarian texts, or to use German and Italian forms ; these people included the poet László Amadé, novelist Ignác Mészáros and the author and linguist Ferenc Verseghy.

Many of them, moreover, are beginning to complain about the scarcity of Western amusements and to ridicule the old life of the bazaar merchant, the mullah, and the peasant.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Many of his writings, prayers and letters are extant, and his discourses with the Western Bahá ' ís emphasize the growth of the faith by the late 1890s.

Many battles of the Western Front in the First World War were intentionally ( Verdun ) or unintentionally ( Somme ) attrition battles.

Many Allied operations in the Western Desert and on the Eastern Front relied on massive concentrations of firepower to establish breakthroughs by fast-moving armoured units.

Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

Many of the Germanic people that filled the power vacuum left by the Western Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages codified their laws.

Many games, including card games, are fabricated by science fiction authors and screenwriters to distance a culture depicted in the story from present-day Western culture.

Many Islamic scholars and modern Western academics do not view Uzair as " Ezra "; for example Professor Gordon Darnell Newby associates Uzair with Enoch and Metatron.

Many such homelands are found across Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Many reasons have been cited for the obscurity of Western classical music in India, a country rich in its musical heritage by its own right, however the two main reasons are an utter lack of exposure and a passive disinterest in what is considered esoteric at best.

Many aspects of Judaism have also directly or indirectly influenced secular Western ethics and civil law.

Many Western politicians courted president Tubman.

Many Western countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, and eventually Italy condemned Libya for the brutal crackdown on the dissidents.

Many from outside the Western United States pronounce it with the vowel of " father ".

Many Western Australian schools have been using some form of OBE for K-10 students for several years.

Many Western European companies have established their Polish headquarters in Poznań, or in the nearby towns of Tarnowo Podgórne and Swarzędz.

Many have spoken out for the right of Jewish women to pray aloud and read from the Torah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Women of the Wall group.

Many of the stories take place in the semiarid landscapes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, so a popular setting was the Tabernas Desert in the Province of Almeria in southeastern Spain, at the studios of Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood, and Western Leone.

Many well-known historical figures who influenced Western science considered themselves Christian such as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Boyle.

Many critics and audiences have likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken it to a crime novel that revolves around mistaken identity plot devices.

Many cloth shops located on Wing On Street, also known as Cloth Alley, were moved to the Western Market while Eu Yan Sang, a traditional Chinese medicine shop, was moved near the Stag Building to continue business.