Many companies have systems, particularly in R & D, which work more or less well, depending upon size and actual belief in the policy on the part of administration, as will be abundantly apparent in subsequent quotations.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

Many other ( probably nearly all ) snakes at maturity are already more than half their final length.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

Many people seem hopeful, yet it is difficult to predict whether or not there will be any more real attainment of Christian unity in 1961 than there was in 1861.

Many see Calvinism as growing in acceptance, and some prominent Reformed Baptists, such as Albert Mohler and Mark Dever, have been pushing for the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a more Calvinistic orientation.

Many of AppleTalk's more advanced auto-configuration features have since been introduced in Bonjour.

Many participants were among those 11 million or more protesters that on the weekend of February 15, 2003, participated in global protests against the imminent Iraq war and were dubbed the " world's second superpower " by an editorial in the New York Times.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements.

Many players use a backhand hitting action for returning smashes on both the forehand and backhand sides, because backhands are more effective than forehands at covering smashes directed to the body.

Many universities throughout the world are now providing programs in bioengineering and biotechnology ( as independent programs or specialty programs within more established engineering fields ).

Many people with hypomania are actually in fact more productive than usual, while manic individuals have difficulty completing tasks due to a shortened attention span.

Many of the instances that occur in practical applications can be solved much more quickly.

Many games borrow elements from more than one type of game.

Many more examples could be given.

Many cavers carry two or more sources of light-one as primary and the others as backup in case the first fails.

Many researchers believe the extinction was more gradual, resulting from the sea level and climate changes already occurring during the late Cretaceous, and aggravated by impact events or increased volcanic activity.

Many fine chemicals are prepared via catalysis ; methods include those of heavy industry as well as more specialized processes that would be prohibitively expensive on a large scale.

Many carbohydrates contain one or more modified monosaccharide units that have had one or more groups replaced or removed.

Many such short processes involve a few changes to traditional methods, including smaller, more homogenized pieces in the compost, controlling carbon to nitrogen ( CN ) ratio at 30 to 1 or less, and monitoring the moisture level more carefully.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

Many had an uninhibited, often irreverent style ; their frank depictions of nudity, sex, profanity, and politics had no parallel outside their precursors, the pornographic and even more obscure " Tijuana bibles ".

Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

Many evangelical creeds will restate traditional Calvinist or Arminian theology, such as belief in biblical inerrancy and creation.

* Many traditional beliefs in the Philippines still practised to an extent today are animist and spiritist in origin in that there are rituals aimed at pacifying malevolent spirits or are apotropaic in nature.

* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

Many observe the traditional bonfire rites, to whatever extent this is feasible where they live, including the dousing of the household hearth flame and relighting it from the communal fire.

Many of those countries still hold the traditional memorial ceremony every year.

Many traditional regional cuisines rely on basic methods of preservation such as drying, salting, pickling and fermentation.

Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.

Many contemporary dance forms can be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dance.

Many of these algorithms use convolution with the filter 1 to slightly whiten or flatten the spectrum, thereby allowing traditional lossless compression to work more efficiently.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Many of Dublin's traditional industries, such as food processing, textile manufacturing, brewing, and distilling have gradually declined, although Guinness has been brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery since 1759.

Many historians trace modern Ethiopian foreign policy to the reign of Emperor Tewodros II, whose primary concerns were the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders, obtaining technology from Europe ( or modernization ), and to a lesser degree Ethiopian rights to the monastery of Dar-es-Sultan in the city of Jerusalem.

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

Many of the elements in EverQuest have been drawn from text-based MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon ) games, particularly DikuMUDs, which in turn were inspired by traditional role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons.

Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

Many types of surfing are popular on the island, including traditional surfing, windsurfing ( where the board is propelled by a sail ) and most recently kitesurfing.

Many feminist theologians assert that personal experience can be an important component of insight into the divine, along with the more traditional sources of holy books or received tradition.

Many of the pre-Christian, traditional Indo-European, festivals and celebrations such as Tyarndarach ( Trndez-associated with fire worship ) and Vartavar ( Vadarvar-associated with water worship ), that dated back to thousands of years were preserved and continued in the form of Christian celebrations and chants.

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

Many other scales, both diatonic and synthetic, can be obtained by adjusting the pedals differently from each other ; also, many chords in traditional harmony can be obtained by adjusting pedals so that some notes are enharmonic equivalents of others, and this is central to harp technique.

Many stores include restaurants serving traditional Swedish food, including potatoes with Swedish meatballs, cream sauce and lingonberry jam, although there are variations.

Many people on MDI regimens carry insulin pens to inject their rapid-acting insulins instead of traditional syringes.

Many use traditional songs and rites from sources such as The Silver Bough and The Carmina Gadelica.