Many languages use modified forms of the Latin alphabet, with additional letters formed using diacritical marks.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

Many anti-globalization activists call for forms of global integration that better provide democratic representation, advancement of human rights, fair trade and sustainable development and therefore feel the term " anti-globalization " is misleading.

Many different forms of storage, based on various natural phenomena, have been invented.

Many crystalline minerals can be transformed into higher-density phases by shock waves ; for example, the common mineral quartz can be transformed into the higher-pressure forms coesite and stishovite.

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

Many definitions tend to postulate or assume that complexity expresses a condition of numerous elements in a system and numerous forms of relationships among the elements.

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

Many early forms of music and dance were created and performed together.

Many of the generic forms of documentary, for example the biopic or profile ; or the observational piece.

Many researchers combine qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis to better answer questions which cannot be studied in laboratory settings, particularly in the social sciences and in education.

Many of these treatments are alleged to help against only specific forms of cancer.

Many paleoanthropologists now use the term Homo ergaster for the non-Asian forms of this group, and reserve Homo erectus only for those fossils that are found in Asia and meet certain skeletal and dental requirements which differ slightly from H. ergaster.

* Many other forms of spectroscopy also rely upon Fourier Transforms to determine the three-dimensional structure and / or identity of the sample being analyzed, including Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopies.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

Many of these mutant forms of hemoglobin cause no disease.

Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

Many commands have mnemonic short forms ; for example and are coded and respectively.

Many logical positivists endorsed forms of materialism, metaphysical naturalism, and empiricism.

Many social dance forms have a long history of same-sex and role-crossing partnerships, and there have been some changes to the strict gendering of partner dances in some competition or performance contexts.

Many of the forms of analysis performed by lint-like tools are also performed by optimizing compilers, whose prime motivation is to generate faster code.

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

Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.

Many larger animals begin their life as zooplankton before they become large enough to take their familiar forms.

* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

Many holidays are linked to faiths and religions ( see etymology above ).

Many religions state that those who do not go to heaven will go to another place, hell, which is eternal in religions such as Christianity.

Many religions share common beliefs.

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 of the features common to the most widely practiced religions provide built-in advantages in an evolutionary context, she writes.

Many religions feature adversarial elements, punishing apostasy, for instance, or demonizing infidels.

Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.

Many pagans and pagan traditions attempt to incorporate elements of historical religions, cultures and mythologies into their beliefs and practices, often emphasizing the age of their sources.

Many LGBT Neopagans were initially attracted to Neopagan religions because of this inclusion, in which their relationships are seen on an equal footing.

Many traditional and folk religions including African traditional religions and Native American religions can be seen as pantheistic, or a mixture of pantheism and other doctrines such as polytheism and animism.

Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

Many ancient religions had sacred sites, temples, oracles and sacred groves to which pilgrimages were made.

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe.

Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places, and scriptures.

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 religions involve an initial Paradise preceding ordinary historical time.

* Many religions involve the story of a god who undergoes death and resurrection ( see life-death-rebirth deity ).

Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.