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Many nations had elite upper houses of legislatures, the members of which often had lifetime tenure, but eventually these houses lost power ( as in Britain's House of Lords ), or else became elective and remained powerful ( as in the United States Senate ).
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Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.
Many European nations chartered corporations to lead colonial ventures, such as the Dutch East India Company or the Hudson's Bay Company, and these corporations came to play a large part in the history of corporate colonialism.
Many nations ascribe to and follow, to varying degrees, international agreements regarding environmental issues.
Many Greeks either fled to other European nations or to geographically isolated areas ( i. e. mountains and heavily forested territories ) in order to escape foreign rule.
Many nations and ethnic groups have tried to assert themselves as ethnic, or cultural successors to the Huns.
Many Jeep variants serving similar military and civilian roles have since been created in other nations.
Many nations have used the system, including the United States, Japan, and several European countries.
Many nations, including the United States and Canada, and the European Union, have imposed investment and trade sanctions on Burma.
Many other small or distant nations have no formal diplomatic relations with Niamey except through their respective consulates at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
Many tribal cultures balance individual ownership with the laws of collective groups: tribes, families, associations and nations.
Many others were captured and prosecuted by Allied authorities at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes, and absconding SS criminals were the targets of police forces in various Allied nations, post-war West and East Germany, Austria, and Israel.
Many nations currently have moratoria on either ES cell research or the production of new ES cell lines.
Many nations are taking direct steps to protect the ecology of the taiga by prohibiting logging, mining, oil and gas production, and other forms of development.
Many more nations became aware of EMC as a growing problem and issued directives to the manufacturers of digital electronic equipment, which set out the essential manufacturer requirements before their equipment could be marketed or sold.
Many archipelagoes and island nations have an overwhelming majority of its exposed bedrock made up by basalt due to being above hotspots, for example, Iceland and Hawaii
Many nations sent oceanographic observations to Maury at the Naval Observatory, where he and his colleagues evaluated the information and gave the results worldwide distribution.
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Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
Many of them had once been members of a church or at least had been given instruction in Christianity but for one or another reason had allowed the connexion to lapse.
Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.
Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.
Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.
Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.
Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening.
Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.
Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.
Many scholars debate over what happened on the threshing floor ; yet it seems unlikely Boaz and Ruth had sexual relations based on the narrative's portrayal of their character ( esp.
Many original members of the future Social Democratic Party had been members of the Manifesto Group within the Labour Party.
Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.
Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.
Many of the early building societies were based in taverns or coffeehouses, which had become the focus for a network of clubs and societies for co-operation and the exchange of ideas among Birmingham's highly active citizenry as part of the movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment.
Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.
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