Many British publications have gradually done away with the use of periods in abbreviations.

Many independents walked away from the 1901 meeting.

Many of these booms may be attributable to bird-scarers, automated cannon-like devices used by farmers to scare birds away from the many vineyards, orchards and crops.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

Many plants have evolved fruits that are attractive as a food source to animals, so that animals will eat the fruits and excrete the seeds some distance away.

Many world-renowned ski resorts such as Verbier and Crans-Montana are just over an hour away by car.

Many teams were going away from the traditional uniform and the Astros were no exception.

Many of these Jews would live in mountainous regions to get away from any non-Jewish influence.

Many battles were prearranged, with the clan warriors meeting at an assigned place and time, while women and children of the clan watched the festivities from some distance away.

Many of the break away Irish Republican groups which oppose the Good Friday Agreement ( the Continuity Irish Republican Army and the Real Irish Republican Army ) are believed to be in possession of a significant amount of the Libyan ammunition and semtex explosives delivered to the IRA during the 1970s and 1980s.

" Many workers, in fact, would like to get away from their factories if they could and find more creative artisanal types of work, not simply " participate " in " planning " their own misery.

Many dramatic actors gladly participated in musicals as a way to break away from their typecasting.

Many herbs were uncommon, particularly Mediterranean herbs, which are not hardy in much of New England away from the coast.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.

Many Structuralists later moved away from the most strict interpretations and applications of " structure ", and are thus called " Post-structuralists ".

Many Asians do not want to lose respect in society by admitting they are in pain and need help, believing the pain should be borne in silence, while other cultures ( e. g. Jewish ) feel they should report pain right away and get immediate relief.

Many of these letters are pious and poetic and express a desire to be in closer or more frequent contact with a loved one that is far enough away to only be reached by written correspondence.

Many centres are therefore moving away from using ciprofloxacin as the first line for treating suspected typhoid originating in South America, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, or Vietnam.

Many Viz gems are tucked away in spoof Terms and Conditions sections or application forms.

Many financial firms found that they could move to midtown Manhattan four miles away or elsewhere and still operate effectively.

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 Christians fell away, and were thereafter referred to as " lapsi ", but afterwards asked to be received again into the Church.

Many see Tristan as the beginning of the move away from conventional harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20th century.

Many Texians were also unhappy with the location of their state capital, which moved periodically between Saltillo and Monclova, both of which were in southern Coahuila, some away ; they wanted Tejas to be a separate state from Coahuila ( but not independent from Mexico ) and to have its own capital.

Many Boers who were dissatisfied with aspects of the British administration, in particular with Britain's abolition of slavery on 1 December 1834, elected to migrate away from British rule in what became known as the Great Trek.

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.