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 contemporary dance forms can be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dance.

Many synagogues in the diaspora, even though Ashkenazi by rite and by ethnic composition, have adopted the " Sephardic " pronunciation in deference to Israeli Hebrew.

Many nations and ethnic groups have tried to assert themselves as ethnic, or cultural successors to the Huns.

Many local ethnic languages are the first language of most Indonesians and still important.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Many news organizations reflect or are perceived to reflect in some way the viewpoint of the geographic, ethnic, and national population that they primarily serve.

Many Muslims, regardless of their ethnic background, wear Middle Eastern clothing associated with Arabic Islam to special occasions and prayers at mosques.

Many Rohingya refugees, not recognised as an ethnic group and allegedly suffering abuse by the Burmese state, remain in Bangladesh, and have been threatened with forced repatriation to Burma.

Many are part of larger ethnic networks extending into several countries, which link West African states in the area.

Many other languages have words that sound the same as nigger ( are homophonic ), but do not necessarily have the same meaning, while on the other hand having ethnic slurs dissimilar to ' nigger ' but carrying the same meaning.

Many members of the minorities ( Jews, ethnic Ukrainians and others ) joined in these attacks.

Many ethnic Mon are monolingual in Burmese.

Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves where particular ethnic groups and cultures predominate.

Many countries provide immigration privileges to individuals with ethnic ties to these countries ( so-called leges sanguinis ):

# State name: Many commoners took the name of their state, either to show their continuing allegiance or as a matter of national and ethnic identity.

Many Baloch outside of Balochistan are also bilingual or of mixed ancestry due to their proximity to other ethnic groups, including the Sindhis, Brahui, Persians, Seraikis and Pashtuns.

Many of the individual cultures that make up the Sydney mosaic are centred on the cultural, artistic, ethnic, linguistic and religious communities formed by waves of immigration.

Many Jews and Christians retain the belief that the table applies to the entire population of the earth, while others read it as a guide only to local ethnic groups.

Many ethnic Germans had families who had lived in Poland for centuries ; even the more recent immigrants had arrived 30 years or more before the war.

Many modern theories suggest that the ancestors of the Laz-Mingrelians constituted the dominant ethnic and cultural presence in the region in antiquity, and hence played a significant role in the ethnogenesis of the modern Georgians.

Many important scholars of natural science, astronomy, and medicine originate from Harran ; they were non-Arab and non-Islamic ethnic Assyrians, including possibly the alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān.

Many Chinatown areas also feature Chinese bakeries, boba milk tea shops, roasted meat, vegetarian cuisine, and specialized dessert shops.

Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and the Indians, Chinese, and Mayans developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations.

Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House.

Many cafeterias ( canteens ) at Chinese universities have separate sections or dining areas for Muslim students ( Hui or western Chinese minorities ), typically labeled " qingzhen.

Many Halal Chinese restaurants exist in New York City, owned by Hui Muslims.

Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

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 Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration.

Many Taoists venerate Laozi as Daotsu the founder of the school of Dao, the Daode Tianjun in the Three Pure Ones, one of the eight elders transformed from Taiji in the Chinese creation myth.

Many translations are written by people with a foundation in Chinese language and philosophy who are trying to render the original meaning of the text as faithfully as possible into English.

Many later Marxist theorists ( e. g. Eric Wolfe ) have generalized this characterization to include non-European societies, grouping feudalism together with Imperial Chinese and pre-Columbian Incan societies as ' tributary.

Many Confucian-educated Chinese who now lacked profession turned to the arts of painting and theatre instead, as the Yuan period became one of the most vibrant and abundant eras for Chinese artwork.

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 VNQDD members joined the Yunnan military school and received military training from the Kuomintang Chinese army.

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 historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mǎdiào ( 馬吊 ) ( also known as Ma Tiae, hanging horse ; or Yèzí, leaf ) in the early Ming dynasty.

Many forms of Chinese martial arts also feature weapons as part of their curriculum.

Many New Left thinkers in the U. S. were influenced by the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Many Chinese and foreign observers see the PRC as in transition from a system of public ownership to one in which private ownership plays an increasingly important role.

Many visual effects are possible, and the SVG specification automatically handles bidirectional text ( for composing a combination of English and Arabic text, for example ), vertical text ( as Chinese was historically written ) and characters along a curved path ( such as the text around the edge of the Great Seal of the United States ).

Many Chinese in gossip hungry Chungking would have known of their time alone and rumors would have spread quickly.

Many popular dishes eaten in Thailand were originally Chinese dishes which were introduced to Thailand mainly by the Teochew people who make up the majority of the Thai Chinese.