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 examples are recorded from antiquity.

Many examples are familiar in everyday speech even today, " One cannot be a judge in one's own cause " ( see Dr. Bonham's Case ), rights are reciprocal to obligations, and the like.

Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross-stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia.

Many more examples could be given.

Many examples are reproduced in Dennis Rickard's The Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith ( Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1973 ).

Many excellent examples of structures made from these concretes are still standing, notably the huge dome of the Pantheon in Rome and the massive Baths of Caracalla.

Many of them would come to be definitive examples of what came to be known as " mockumentaries ".

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 examples have passed into common usage.

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

Many Ericales species are cultivated for their showy flowers: well-known examples are azalea, rhododendron, camellia, polyanthus, cyclamen, phlox, and busy Lizzie.

Many examples of evildoers and warnings about their fates are given in rapid succession.

Many other examples of this like The Country Doctor ( 1908 ) can easily be found in his work.

Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.

Many recent examples are " backronyms " ( acronyms made up to explain a term ), as in " snob ", and " posh " for " port outward, starboard homeward "; many other sourced examples are listed in the article on backronyms.

Many other titles contain in-game depictions of graffiti ( such as The Darkness, Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, NetHack, Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, The World Ends with You, The Warriors, Just Cause, Portal, various examples of Virtual Graffiti, etc .).

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Many examples can be seen at an annual competition hosted by the All Japan Swordsmith Association, under the auspices of the Nihontō Bunka Shinkō Kyōkai ( Society for the promotion of Japanese Sword Culture ).

Many sulfide minerals are economically important as metal ores ; examples include sphalerite ( ZnS ), an ore of zinc, galena ( PbS ), an ore of lead, cinnabar ( HgS ), an ore of mercury, and molybdenite ( MoS < sub > 2 </ sub >, an ore of molybdenum.

Many examples of such devices have been found in old Roman mines and some examples are now preserved in the British Museum and the National Museum of Wales.

Many specific examples are given in the article on multiplicative functions.

Many of them appear to drop out, for one reason or another.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Many of these programmes also appear throughout the week on BBC News's sister channel BBC World News.

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 Dungeons & Dragons elements appear in hobbies of the mid-to-late 20th century, although these elements had existed previously.

Many of these appear to be fairly uniform, so by the virial theorem, the total kinetic energy should be half the total gravitational binding energy of the galaxies.

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 elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the wizard Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann and final rest in Avalon.

Many of these buildings seem to have been planned in relation to each other: the baths at the northern end of the hippodrome are on the same alignment as it is, and the stoa, the xenon, the lower fountain, and the rows of seats all appear to have been built in an intentionally similar alignment.

Many of Lisa's operating system advances would not appear in the Macintosh operating system until System 7 or later.

Many species of mushrooms seemingly appear overnight, growing or expanding rapidly.

Many years later, he returned to appear as a guest host of the programme.

Many more are known in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds — they are easier to detect in external systems than in our own galaxy because projection effects can cause unrelated clusters within the Milky Way to appear close to each other.

Many appear to have been written early in the history of ancient Israel ( first millennium BC or even earlier ), while others may have been written after the exile to Babylon, which occurred in the sixth century BC.

Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as " The Bag o ' Nails " ( Bacchanals ), " The Goat and Compasses " ( God Encompasseth Us ), " The Cat and the Fiddle " ( Caton Fidèle ) and " The Bull and Bush ", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at " Boulogne Bouche " or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

Many of these hosts also publish books, write newspaper columns, appear on television, and give public lectures ( Limbaugh, again, was a pioneer of this model of multi-media punditry ).

Many minor or third political parties appear from time to time.

Many strips appear only once.

Many of the links on this site are broken and it does not appear to be being maintained.

Many examples appear in ancient texts, such as those from Egypt and Babylonia.

Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess.

Many tornadoes which appear to have path lengths of or longer are composed of a family of tornadoes which have formed in quick succession ; however, there is no substantial evidence that this occurred in the case of the Tri-State Tornado.

Many of the crop species are hybrids, and hybridization appear to be an important factor in speciation in some plant groups.