Many went to Nicaea, where Theodore Lascaris set up an imperial court, or to Epirus, where Theodore Angelus did the same ; others fled to Trebizond, where one of the Comneni had already with Georgian support established an independent seat of empire.

Many coins issued during Elagabalus ' reign bear the inscriptions Fides Exercitus or Fides Militum, emphasising the loyalty of the army as the basis of imperial power.

Many had expected the original boundary line to run farther to the west, thereby ceding the Lahore region to India, possibly granting them all of Gujranwala Division: Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, districts and Sheikhupura, Okara, Kasur districts of Lahore Division ; and others had expected the line to run much farther east, possibly granting them control of Delhi, the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire including an east Punjab state for Sikhs of their own to govern.

Many U. S. units are virtually identical to their imperial counterparts, but the U. S. customary system developed from English units used in the British Empire before the system of imperial units was standardized in 1824.

Many Persian soldiers lost their lives that day, so many in fact that after the battle the casualties of the enemy ensured that Darius would never again raise an imperial army.

Many of his policies and reforms were brought into the Islamic nation in their transformation from a decentralized oligarchical into an imperial empire.

Many Strasbourg merchants left to avoid a potential clash with imperial forces.

Many of Europe's major elites also found advantages in formal, overseas expansion: large financial and industrial monopolies wanted imperial support to protect their overseas investments against competition and domestic political tensions abroad ; bureaucrats wanted and sought government offices ; military officers desired promotion ; and the traditional but waning landed gentries sought increased profits for their investments, formal titles, and high office.

Many of the clans and local chieftains that made up the Yamato polity claimed descent from the imperial family or other tribal Gods.

Many of the new roads were named after eminent figures in Britain's imperial history, such as Robert Clive.

Many Taiwanese people were disillusioned with the incoming Kuomintang administration, which proved to be as harsh as Japanese imperial rule.

Many of the monuments on Mount Nemrud are ruins of the imperial cult of Commagene.

Many princes were effectively ignoring the imperial government's authority within their own principalities.

Many designs that were enjoyed with the upper classes of imperial China became common even in everyday art.

Many princes settled in various provinces of India, but some settled in Burma and Bengal since a large number of imperial family members, along with Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar were exiled to Rangoon in Burma.

Many of the imperial provinces were vassal states before being reduced to provinces.

Many measures were again suspended in 1914 – 17 during the First World War, but secret government documents published in the Finnish press in November 1914 suggested that the imperial government still harbored plans for the complete Russification of Finland.

Many of the sovereigns minted in Australia were for use in India as part of a plan that the gold sovereign should become the imperial coin.

Many common people reacted by moving to the countryside, sometimes joining the estates of the wealthy, and in general trying to be self-sufficient and interact as little as possible with the imperial authorities.

Many references to ancient and imperial Rome were planned, such as the building of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana as a cubic Colosseum, an obelisk to Guglielmo Marconi, and a projected but not built great arch, featured in the Fair posters.

Many parts of the empire maintained their cultural identity, and were at best restive participants in the imperial project.

Many of Booth's works were linked to the British imperial past in China, Hong Kong and Central Asia.

Many gardens, particularly in the gardens of Jiangnan and the imperial gardens of northern China, have features and names taken from this work.

Many philosophies and worldviews have a set of classical elements believed to reflect the simplest essential parts and principles of which anything consists or upon which the constitution and fundamental powers of anything are based.

Many of the powers have specific advantages and limitations that apply only to that power.

Many of Africa's borders were artificially imposed by European colonial powers.

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 had signed treaties of friendship with Britain, but these were expressed as being between sovereign powers contracting with each other ; there was no subordination.

Many countries have a state religion without government directly deriving its powers from a divine authority, or direct government powers exercised by religious authority.

Many of today's standard vampire tropes originated in Varney: Varney has fangs, leaves two puncture wounds on the necks of his victims, has hypnotic powers, and has superhuman strength.

Many characters supplement their natural powers with a special weapon or device ( e. g., Wonder Woman's lasso and bracelets, Spider-Man's webbing, and Wolverine's adamantium claws ).

Many echinoderms have remarkable powers of regeneration.

Many of the great powers of the High Bronze Age in the Western Mediterranean had either collapsed or been severely weakened.

Many ascetics after long periods of penance and meditation are alleged to attain a state where they may utilize supernatural powers.

Many of these quantities are related to each other by various physical laws, and as a result the units of some of the quantities can be expressed as products ( or ratios ) of powers of other units ( e. g., momentum is mass times velocity and velocity is measured in distance divided by time ).

Many in the Chinese intellectual community believed that the United States had done little to convince the imperialist powers ( especially Britain, France, and Japan ) to adhere to the Fourteen Points, and observed that the United States itself had declined to join the League of Nations ; as a result they turned away from the Western liberal democratic model.

Many of the vice-regal reserve powers are untested, because of the brief constitutional history of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the observance of the convention that the head of state acts upon the advice of his or her chief minister.

Many minerals, in fact, were thought to possess magical powers, particularly gems.

Many other members of Brown's family were allegedly psychic, including her parents and grandparents, and she herself displayed psychic powers at an early age.

Many argued the new Independent Counsel's office was a sort of " fourth branch " of government that had virtually unlimited powers and was answerable to no one.

Many early twentieth century regimes failed through political instability and / or the interventions of heads of state, notably King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy's failure to back his government when facing the threat posed by Benito Mussolini in 1922, or the support given by King Alfonso XIII of Spain to a prime minister using dictatorial powers in the 1920s.

Many disputes between the two levels of government revolve around conflicting interpretations of the meaning of these two powers.

Many members of the Jedi Council remained skeptical of Palpatine's growing powers, especially at the expense of the Senate — the only body they were contractually bound to serve.

In The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Eastern Kentucky University professor Paul Blanchard writes that " Many observers consider the governor's informal powers — those derived from tradition, custom, and precedent — as important as the formal powers.

Many of the superhumans on Earth owe their powers to the " metagene ", a genetic feature of unknown origin, which causes some people to develop superpowers when exposed to dangerous substances and forces.