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 anthems have been composed since this time, generally by organists rather than professional composers and often in a conservative style.

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 other toques, like Samango, Santa Maria, Amazonas, Regional de Bimba, Benguela or Miudinho have their own story, meaning and game style.

Many had an uninhibited, often irreverent style ; their frank depictions of nudity, sex, profanity, and politics had no parallel outside their precursors, the pornographic and even more obscure " Tijuana bibles ".

Many have cited this work as an example of the stile antico ( old style ) or prima pratica ( first practice ).

Many academics often publish material in journals requiring different varieties of English and change style and spellings as necessary without great difficulty.

Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.

Many of his films were noted for creating " psychological dilemmas " for his male protagonists along with having a strong " sense of environment ," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director.

Many fighters vary their defensive style throughout a bout in order to adapt to the situation of the moment, choosing the position best suited to protect them.

Many of these techniques are rooted in the aiki-no-jutsu portions of the Daitō-ryū curriculum rather than the more direct jujutsu style joint-locking techniques.

Many scholars have contended that in discussion on the resurrection, Apostle Paul refers to a rabbinic style transmission of an early authoritative tradition that he received and has passed on to the church at Corinth.

Many of the terms associated with ragtime have inexact definitions, and are defined differently by different experts ; the definitions are muddled further by the fact that publishers often labelled pieces for the fad of the moment rather than the true style of the composition.

Many publications provide instructions or macros for typesetting in the house style.

Many ball valves do not have bonnets since the valve body is put together in a different style, such as being screwed together at the middle of the valve body.

Many Chinese cooks use Western style cast-iron pans for stir-frying on electric stoves, since they hold enough heat for the required sustained high temperatures.

Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the beginning of the 1990s the hip hop / rap scene has developed a unique sound and indigenous style.

Many barbecue restaurants outside the United States claim to serve " Texas barbecue ", regardless of the style they actually serve.

Many important historic buildings were rebuilt, including the Semper Opera House, the Zwinger Palace and a great many other historic buildings, although the city leaders chose to reconstruct large areas of the city in a " socialist modern " style, partly for economic reasons, but also to break away from the city's past as the royal capital of Saxony and a stronghold of the German bourgeoisie.

Many traditional style bands compete in contest known as a Battle of the Bands, similar to the Atlanta Classic from the movie Drumline.

Many collectors enjoy making a plan for their collections, combining education, stimulation and experimentation to develop a personal collecting style ; and even those who reject the notion of " planned collecting " can refine their " selection skills " with some background information on the methods of collecting.

Many of the city's historic buildings are designed in the Baroque style.

Many think that Miffy is Japanese, because Sanrio's Hello Kitty and friends are rendered using a similar line style.

Many of the key techniques of the four-mallet style, such as multi-linear playing and the advanced dampening techniques described below, are easily applied to playing with two mallets and some modern two-mallet players have adapted these devices to their playing, somewhat blurring the distinctions between modern two-and four-mallet players.

Many Slovenian polka / oberkrainer style bands in Europe are also in tribute of Avsenik's music, including Slovenia's Hisni ansambel Avsenik and Gasperji / Die Jungen Oberkrainer.

Many American style guides explicitly permit periods and commas outside the quotation marks when the presence of the punctuation mark inside the quotation marks will lead to ambiguity, such as when describing keyboard input: