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 examples appear on the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, such as La Pouquelaye de Faldouet, La Sergenté, and La Hougue des Géonnais.

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 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 researchers believe the extinction was more gradual, resulting from the sea level and climate changes already occurring during the late Cretaceous, and aggravated by impact events or increased volcanic activity.

Many catalytic processes, especially those used in organic synthesis, require so called " late transition metals ", which include palladium, platinum, gold, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium.

Many calculators continued to use two or more integrated circuits ( ICs ), especially the scientific and the programmable ones, into the late 1970s.

Many churches begin celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a service called the Easter Vigil.

Many scholars consider the epistle to be written in the late 1st or early 2nd centuries, after the death of James the Just.

Many of his late paintings celebrate farm life, including many where he used his work horse " Rousseau " as a model.

Many linguists believe this to be true of the middle and late stages of Proto-Indo-European.

Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.

Other important sources include a group of four manuscripts originating in the west of Ireland in the late 14th or early 15th century: The Yellow Book of Lecan, The Great Book of Lecan, The Book of Hy Many, and The Book of Ballymote.

Many aspects of the Kyrgyz national culture were retained despite suppression of nationalist activity under Joseph Stalin, who controlled the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until 1953.

Many castles, especially royal castles were left to decay in the 15th century ; Kenilworth, however, continued to be used as a centre of choice, forming a late medieval " palace fortress ".

Many Komondors are " late bloomers ," not fully mature until nearly three years of age.

Many modern day cooperatives are influenced directly or indirectly by economic mutualism that became popular in the late 19th century.

Many deaths in the late 19th and early 20th century period were attributed to rescue teams being unable to locate those that had become lost in snowy regions as they were wearing only white.

Many modernists came to this viewpoint, for example Paul Hindemith in his late turn towards mysticism.

Many were sold to other armies in the late 19th century and continued to be used into the early 20th century, until they were gradually supplanted by Maxim guns.

Many late 1970s and early 1980s home computers used Compact Cassettes, encoded with the Kansas City standard, or several other " standards " such as the Tarbell Cassette Interface.

Many of the ideas in Klein's book derive from the influence of the Situationists, an art / political group founded in the late 1950s.

Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like St. Augustine.

* Many Russian language translations have been undertaken, reflecting the popularity of the Rubaiyat in Russia since the late 19th century and the increasingly popular tradition of using it for the purposes of bibliomancy.

Many local women ’ s groups in the late sixties, such as the UCLA Women ’ s Liberation Front ( WLF ), offered diplomatic statements of radical feminism ’ s ideologies.

Many radical feminists in Australia participated in a series of squats to establish various women's centres, and this form of action was common in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Many of these barons had taken an oath to stay in Normandy until the late king was properly buried, which prevented them from returning to England.