Many states at this time functioned as theocracies, with codes of conduct largely religious in origin or reference.

Many conversion tables and programs exist, largely created by genealogists.

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

Many North American Native Peoples ( such as the Cree, Iroquois, Huron, Navajo, and others ) were and still are largely panentheistic, conceiving of God as both confined in God's existence in Creation but also transcendent from it.

Many forms of socialist theory hold that human behaviour is largely shaped by the social environment.

Many species of oaks are under threat of extinction in the wild, largely due to land use changes, livestock grazing and unsustainable harvesting.

Many people have surmised that the decision to abolish the GLC was made because of the existence of a high-spending left-wing Labour administration under Livingstone, although pressure for the abolition of the GLC had arisen before Mr Livingstone took over, and was largely driven by the belief among the outer London Borough councils that they could perform the functions of the GLC just as well.

Many fans were reminded of the band's 1970s sound largely because of Khoroshev's classically oriented approach, though White also brought in world music influences with Latinesque arrangements, and with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch contributing to the album's textures.

Many anthropologists used the term tribal society to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ( see clan and kinship ).

Many musicals, such as the old Betty Grable-Don Ameche-Carmen Miranda vehicles, are largely unaffected, but this practice is especially misleading in translations of musicals like Show Boat, The Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady or Carousel, in which the lyrics to the songs and the spoken text are often or always closely integrated, and the lyrics serve to further the plot.

Many authors fled to the U. S. and Canada ( Josef Škvorecký ), Germany ( Peroutka ), Austria ( Kohout ), France ( M. Kundera ), but they generally did not fare much better than their contemporaries in Czechoslovakia, largely due to the absence of a readership.

Many of the main criticisms of moral relativism by the Catholic Church relate largely to modern controversies, such as elective abortion.

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

Many of the ideas of early object-relational database efforts have largely become incorporated into SQL: 1999.

Many other planned lines were delayed or scrapped entirely as JNR slid into debt throughout the late ' 70s, largely because of the high cost of building the Shinkansen network.

Many people from the surrounding rural areas ( largely Romanian ) were moved into the city.

Many wealthy planters settled in the area, leaving a legacy of historic mid-19th century architecture that largely survived intact into the modern era.

Many of the old land grants to the head right lands, now largely in the government area around Nancytown Lake, were granted in this period.

Many leaders of Rock Island, a community founded largely by Southerners, remained sympathetic to the Confederate cause throughout the Civil War.

Many historians have identified the early modern period as the epoch in which individuals began to think of themselves as belonging to a national polity — a notable break from medieval modes of self-identification, which had been largely based upon religion ( belonging to a universal Christendom ), language, or feudal allegiance ( belonging to the manor or extended household of a particular magnate or lord ).

Many people in the area use the lakes for activities such as swimming and many different boating activities and a band called " Almost Perfect " which, by all accounts, has existed largely unnoticed by the music community, owing that relative anonymity to a lack of ostensible musicianship.

Many of the countries most affected by ENSO events are developing countries within tropical sections of continents with economies that are largely dependent upon their agricultural and fishery sectors as a major source of food supply, employment, and foreign exchange.

Many foreigners from other parts of the world settled Cape Verde as their permanent country.

Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.

Many English settled then in North America for religious or economic reasons.

Many Irish servicemen, particularly sailors, settled in Britain: During the 18th and 19th century a third of the Army and Royal Navy were Irish.

Many of these cases are still in the process of being settled or are headed for trial.

Many other refugees from Iran and the Central Asian countries constituting the former Soviet Union have also settled in the city as economic migrants.

During World War II, about 30, 000 Polish refugees migrated to Karachi, at that time under British colonial rule. Many of these Polish families settled permanently in the city.

Many sources give the birthplace of Nasreddin as Hortu Village in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir Province, present-day Turkey, in the 13th century, after which he settled in Akşehir, and later in Konya under the Seljuq rule, where he died in 1275 / 6 or 1285 / 6 CE.

Many Polish inhabitants were executed, arrested, expelled to the General Government or used as forced labour ; at the same time many Germans and Volksdeutsche were settled in the city.

Many Italian Baroque artists, mostly architects and musicians, settled in the Slovene Lands, and contributed greatly to the development of the local culture.

Many rape cases are settled out of court, with the rapist paying monetary compensation ( jirah ) to the victim, and in some cases they pay diyya for injuries inflicted.

Many settled in the new free colony of Victoria, to the dismay of the free settlers in towns such as Melbourne.

Many of them founded their own cities and settled them with settlers from other parts of Europe.

Many also settled in the growing small towns along the expanding railway system.

Many settled down in South America, especially in the Rio Grande do Sul region, in Brazil ; others in Australia, Canada, and the United States of America.

Many Venetian-speaking families settled in Corfu during these centuries and until the second half of the 20th century, the Veneto da mar was spoken in Corfu: they were called Corfiot Italians.

Many moving to Canada settled in Schreiber, Ontario, because of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and many played a major part in its completion.

Many newly freed slaves were also settled there, prior to the establishment of Liberia as a colony for freed slaves.

Many other words were borrowed from the languages of tribes who settled in Oklahoma in the early 20th century.

Still in the 6th Century, bishop San Martín de Braga complained in his work De correctione rusticorum about the attachment of the Galician peasants to the pre-Christian cults: " Many demons, who were expelled from the heavens, settled in the sea, in the rivers, fountains and forests, and have come to be worshipped as gods by ignorant people.

Many of the Acadians settled in southern Louisiana, creating the Cajun culture there.

Many Afro-Brazilians settled in Porto-Novo following their return to Africa after emancipation in Brazil.

Many Hobbits followed them, and most of the territory they had settled in the Third Age was abandoned.

Many settled in the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where they gradually became known as the Stockbridge Indians.