Many countries, including some US states, also permit the use of less severe corporal punishment for children in school.

Many countries now observe a similar holiday.

Many of the stories have them travel to foreign countries, though others are set in and around their village.

Many European countries, such as Germany, ban most Sunday shopping.

Many European countries still place strong restrictions on store opening hours on Sundays, an example being Germany's Ladenschlussgesetz.

Many countries, including signatories of the BWC, currently pursue research into the defense or protection against biological warfare, which is not prohibited by the BWC.

Many Central European countries and regions were parts of the German Empire | German and the Austro-Hungarian empires ; thus they also have historical and cultural connections.

Many countries have extended the length of their copyright terms ( sometimes retroactively ).

Many countries have state-owned banks or other quasi-government entities that have entirely separate functions, such as financing imports and exports.

Many countries such as the United States will monitor and control the banking sector through different agencies and for different purposes, although there is usually significant cooperation between the agencies.

Many of those countries still hold the traditional memorial ceremony every year.

Many other countries also play.

Many countries have forms of business entity unique to that country, although there are equivalents elsewhere.

Many countries use a post-enumeration survey to adjust the raw census counts.

Many of the remaining 10. 4 % were immigrants — or descendants of recent immigrants — from neighbour countries, Turkey, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Asia, and from the Middle East.

Many countries are replacing broadcast analog television with digital television to allow other uses of the television radio spectrum.

Many merchants from Amsterdam and Zeeland decided to work with marine and merchants from Hamburg, Glückstadt ( then Danish ), England and other countries.

Many specialists claim that it is impossible to advance significant development programs with such a little public sector ( the tax burden in the United States is around 25 % of the GDP and in other developed countries of the EU it can reach around 50 %, like in Sweden ).

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

Many countries have adopted comprehensive environmental laws.

Many countries regulate their slaughterhouses by law.

Many countries of the world can be divided into distinct geographic regions, in each of which some physical characteristic is dominant, almost to the exclusion of others.

Many countries have extensive club competitions for junior and senior players.

Many Muslim countries ( such as Egypt and Tunisia ) have an official mufti position ; a distinguished expert in the sharia is appointed to this position by the civil authorities of the country.

Many of the music-loving members of the President's staff gathered around the tent listening and watching the rapt attention given by the young seated audience.

Many Japanese manufacturers and firms give their employees three to five days off around the 15th of August.

Many homes are built around the school's boundaries.

Many important routes are not electrified and are only single track traffic around ' bends '.

Many people around the world know the name and face of the current U. S. president Barack Obama.

Many towns center around a " green ", such as the Litchfield Green, Lebanon Green ( the largest in the state ), and Wethersfield Green ( the oldest in the state ).

Many escapees from captivity can also be found in similar watery habitats around the world.

Many clippers sailed Clipper route | around Cape Horn

Many plots revolved around Dilbert's engineer nature or his bizarre inventions.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Many legends have grown around the figure of David.

Many governments around the world provide subsidies to offset the high cost and make their production economically feasible.

Many ENSO linkages exist in the high southern latitudes around Antarctica.

Many gags centre around how easily he is manipulated by his executive producer, the most typical case being when Mike refuses to present a story and then is convinced to run it by an appeal to his supposed fearlessness or journalistic integrity.

Many graffiti artists in Israel come from other places around the globe, such as JUIF, from Los Angeles, and DEVIONE from London.

Many cities and towns in Europe and around the world still make use of arms.

Many Russians around the world refer to Russia as their motherland.

Many different types of hops are grown by farmers around the world, with different types being used for particular styles of beer.

Many TV services are available by satellite, such as Sky, and Freesat from the Astra 2 / Eurobird 1 group, as well as services from a range of other satellites around Europe such as Astra 1 and Hot Bird.

Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.

Many astronomers, geologists and biologists believe that exploration of the Solar System provides knowledge that could not be gained by observations from Earth's surface or from orbit around Earth.

Many CD authoring applications attempt to get around the filename length by truncating filenames automatically, but do so at the risk of breaking applications that rely on a specific file structure.