Many European countries have an eagle as the main charge of the heraldic shields of their respective monarchies: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and pre-revolutionary Russia all used some derivative of this bird in their badge.

Many heraldic and clan web sites and other media suggest that a person has the right to use the family or clan Arms.

Many soldiers have sold their helmets and shields.

Many surviving examples of metal shields are generally felt to be ceremonial rather than practical, for example the Yetholm-type shields of the Bronze Age or the Iron Age Battersea shield.

* Many of the " human shields " begin to return to their home countries because the Iraqi government actually wanted to use them as human shields.

Many of the gun crews had lost lower limbs due to splinters passing under the gun shields.

Many archaeological sites found contain scattered stone artefacts from old campsites, and scarred trees from which traditional people removed slabs of bark to make canoes, containers and shields.

Many of the shields chose to stay ; many others chose to leave.

Many of these original shields survive today and can be seen on display at the Security Forces Museum, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Many shields were painted on telephone poles.

Many attempts of falsely torturing Nanako, including stripped her down to only her panties and being tortured by Kuron, hanging her above a boiling pot of goo, topless with only nipple shields to cover her big breasts in a torture ritual, and a near-lesbian scene where Satsuki tries to " make her into a real woman ," all fail.

Many rural and urban women also transform some foodcrops into alcoholic drinks such as sorghum beer or hard liquor and derive considerable income from the sale of these drinks.

Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the last depression.

Many different exegetical methods are employed to derive deeper meaning from a text.

Many challenges in NLP involve natural language understanding -- that is, enabling computers to derive meaning from human or natural language input.

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 attempts have been made to derive its value ( currently measured at about 1 / 137. 035999 ) from theory, but so far none have succeeded.

Many of the constellations and star names in use today derive from Greek astronomy.

Many Humanists derive their moral codes from a philosophy of utilitarianism, ethical naturalism or evolutionary ethics, and some advocate a science of morality.

Many of Mozart's baritone and bass-baritone roles derive from the basso buffo tradition, where no clear distinction was drawn between bass and baritone, a practice that continued well into the 19th century.

Many other words related to normative or regulatory concepts derive from this same root, including correct, regulate, and rex ( meaning " king "), whence regal and thence royal.

Many of the most interesting predictions of the autosegmental model derive from the automatic effects of the Well-formedness Condition and their independence of language-particular rules.

Many of the members of the order are parasitic plants, mostly hemi-parasites, able to produce sugars through photosynthesis, but tapping the stems or roots of other plants to obtain water and minerals ; some ( e. g. Arceuthobium ) are obligate parasites, have low concentrations of chlorophyll within their shoots ( 1 / 5 to 1 / 10 of that found in their host ’ s foliage ) and derive the majority of their sustenance from the host ’ s vascular tissues ( water, micro-and macro-nutrients, and sucrose ).

Many of Smaug's attributes and behaviour in The Hobbit derive directly from the unnamed " old night-scather " in Beowulf: great age ; winged, fiery, and reptilian form ; a stolen barrow within which he lies on his hoard ; disturbance by a theft ; and violent airborne revenge on the lands all about.

Many such Chinese names derive from the suffix-long:

Many of the country's legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of, and precedents set by, the United Kingdom's Westminster Parliament ; however, Barbados has evolved variations.

Many of the older laws derive from French legal norms as France was the former colonial power.

Many Japanese surnames derive from geographical features ; for example, Ishikawa ( 石川 ) means " stone river ", Yamamoto ( 山本 ) means " the base of the mountain ", and Inoue ( 井上 ) means " above the well ".

Many attempts have been made to reconstruct the plot of the play, but none of them is more than hypothetical, because of the scanty remains that survive from its text and of the total absence of ancient descriptions or résumés-though it has been suggested that a part of Hyginus ' narration of the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides ' play.

Many genres of popular music, including blues, jazz and rumba, derive to varying degrees from musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by enslaved Africans.

Many place names and words and expressions in the local dialects derive from the Finnish.

Many clan tartans derive from a 19th century hoax known as the Vestiarium Scoticum.

Many of the most important modern commercial red raspberry cultivars derive from hybrids between R. idaeus and R. strigosus.

Many Indo-European branches show evidence for horse sacrifice, and comparative mythology suggests that they derive from a Proto-Indo-European ritual.

Many of the limitations of MetaPost derive from features of Metafont.

Many small bones protruded crazily from the shreds of flesh.

Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.

Many of today's developments in thermoforming stem from original work done with signs and displays ; ;

Many workers believe that the response is proportional to the incident momentum of the particles, a relation deduced from laboratory results linearly extrapolated to meteoritic velocities.

Many people use wicker cradles for old red wine, lifting the bottle carefully from the bin into the cradle and eventually to the table, without disturbing the sediment.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

Many appeared to regard their sexual behavior as a justifiable means of gaining acceptance from and identification with others ; ;

Many are phototrophic, although some groups contain members that are mixotrophic, deriving energy both from photosynthesis and uptake of organic carbon either by osmotrophy, myzotrophy, or phagotrophy.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

Many newer brands are alcohol-free and contain odor-elimination agents such as oxidizers, as well as odor-preventing agents such as zinc ion to keep future bad breath from developing.

Many of the Anti-Taurus peaks apparently are recently extinct volcanoes, to judge from extensive lava flows.

Many modern Pueblo tribes trace their lineage from settlements.

Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

Many laboratory methods exist for the organic synthesis of arenes from non-arene precursors.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

Many illustrious Athenians, including Cimon, Miltiades, Alcibiades and the historian Thucydides, traced their descent from Ajax.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

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 arguments from morality are based on morality normativity, which suggest that objective moral truths exist and require God's existence to give them authority.

Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears, the boomerang in Australia, the hot air Kongming lantern, and kites.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

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 letters look similar but are distinguished from one another by dots () above or below their central part, called.