Many top nationalist generals, including Chiang, had studied and trained in Japan before the Nationalists had returned to the mainland in the 1920s, and maintained close personal friendships with top Japanese officers.

Many luthiers consider the top the dominant factor in determining the sound quality.

Many bodies consist of good sounding but inexpensive woods, like ash, with a " top ," or thin layer of another, more attractive wood ( such as maple with a natural " flame " pattern ) glued to the top of the basic wood.

Many of their records feature the top session players of the era, and their arrangements, with multiple key changes and complex vocal harmonies, reflected a high level of craftsmanship.

Many theoretical search techniques for detecting Kaluza-Klein Resonances have been proposed using the mass couplings of such resonances with the top quark, however until the LHC reaches full operational power observation of such resonances are unlikely.

Many modern kayaks have modified the traditional design in various ways, such as: eliminating the cockpit by seating the paddler on top of the boat (" sit-on-top " kayaks ); having inflated air chambers surrounding the boat ; replacing the single hull by twin hulls (" W " kayak ), and replacing paddles with other human powered propulsion methods, such as foot-powered rotational propellers and ' flippers '.

Many pencils feature an eraser on the top and so the process is usually still considered incomplete at this point.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

Many ski manufacturers label their skis with the turning radius on the top.

Many turbine rotor blades have shrouding at the top, which interlocks with that of adjacent blades, to increase damping and thereby reduce blade flutter.

Many of Warner's top stars were considering quitting because of their absence.

Many of the American generals who were given top commands during the war were either picked or recommended by Marshall, including Dwight Eisenhower, Lloyd Fredendall, Leslie McNair, Mark Wayne Clark and Omar Bradley.

Many higher level protocols including TCP ( a connection-oriented service ) depend on IP's Datagram service, laying additional functionality on top.

Many athletes receive scholarships to four-year universities after playing at Pierce — and Pierce has some of the top sports facilities in the San Fernando Valley.

Many writers since the 1970s had been hailed as his successor, but none had attained anything near his popularity with children and, in a poll conducted shortly after the launch of Philosopher's Stone, seven of the ten most popular children's books were by Dahl, including the one in top place.

Many languages show mixed accusative and ergative behaviour ( for example: ergative morphology marking the verb arguments, on top of an accusative syntax ).

Many top architects and civil engineers from Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other cities and thousands of workers from all parts of the USSR took part in the rebuilding process which was mostly finished by the mid-1950s.

Many of the current top division wrestlers entered professional sumo by this route.

Many working-class Mexican men in American cities wear their hair in styles like the Mongolian ( shaved except for a tuft of hair at the nape of the neck ) or the rat tail ( crewcut on top, tuft at the nape ), and African-Americans often wear their hair in complex patterns of braids and cornrows, fastened with barrettes and beads, and sometimes including shaved sections or bright colour.

Many of Britain's top actors, including John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Joyce Grenfell, paid tribute at a memorial service, where 90-year-old Sybil Thorndike praised her friend's enormous talent and recalled that Rutherford had " never said anything horrid about anyone ".

Many observers noted that despite his lengthy layoff from competitive tournaments, Sampras still possessed many of the previous skills he had displayed while on the ATP tour, with tennis legend John McEnroe going as far as to say that Sampras would be worthy of a top five seeding at Wimbledon were he to enter the tournament.

Many were to serve in the bloodiest battles of the war, such as ex-miner Dick Trafford who took part in the Battle of Loos, and Frank Lindley who, seeking to avenge his dead brother, went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Many domestic rankings place Peking University amongst the top universities in China.

Many conventions of the detective-fiction genre evolved in this era, as numerous writers — from populist entertainers to respected poets — tried their hands at mystery stories.

Many courts throughout English royal history employed entertainers and most had professional fools, sometimes called licensed fools.

Many well-known people have lived in town, including numerous actors, musicians and other entertainers.

Many famous actors and entertainers have resided there, including Burt Reynolds, Rip Torn, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, James Dean, Madonna, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Alicia Keys, John Michael Bolger, and Sylvester Stallone.

Many Israeli singers and entertainers began their careers in Lahakat HaNahal, among them Tuvya Tzafir, Neomy Polani and Gidi Gov.

Many treaties, however, address certain types of business profits ( such as directors ' fees or income from the activities of athletes and entertainers ) separately.

Many top entertainers performed at the Latin including Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Joey Bishop.

Many top entertainers began their careers with a performance on this programme.

Many entertainers, among them Danny Thomas, Pat Cooper and the comedy team of Martin and Lewis, made their New York debuts at the Copacabana.

Many top entertainers performed at the Latin including Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Joey Bishop.

Many members of the group have attained prominence and fame as entertainers, including musicians, singers, actors, and presenters.

Many guest entertainers have told her that she looks a lot like Estefan.

Many musical entertainers and some surprise guests from the 1950s through the 1970s performed some of their biggest chart-topping hits in tribute to Yost.

Many Filipinos also work in service industries in the Central business district, and also in Hong Kong Disneyland as entertainers or other cast members.

Many celebrity entertainers and athletes have also graced the doors of The Algonquin over the years.

Many Italian TV stars such as Rosario Fiorello, Pippo Baudo, Fabio Fazio, Sandra Mondaini, Alba Parietti, Paola Barale, Carlo Conti, Gerry Scotti, Marco Columbro and several other entertainers attended the service which was held by bishop Erminio De Scalzi.

Many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY in the post-World War I era when Ivy League universities, such as Yale University, discriminated against Jews.

Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.

Many of the characteristic types of literary epigram look back to inscriptional contexts, particularly funerary epigram, which in the Hellenistic era becomes a literary exercise.

Many sites of this era display monumental masks for the first time ( Uaxactún, El Mirador, Cival, Tikal and Nakbé ).

Many Albanians gained prominent positions in the Ottoman government, Albanians highly active during the Ottoman era and leaders such as Ali Pasha of Tepelena might have aided Husein Gradaščević.

* Many of his pieces have been displayed on the strategy game Civilization IV, specifically when the player enters the modern era.

Many of the team's highlights from this era instead centered around the end of Brett's career, such as his third and final batting title in 1990 – which made him the first player to win batting titles in three different decades – and his 3, 000th hit.

Many historic buildings are also located in city, which were constructed in British era like Karachi Port Trust, Sindh High Court.

Many of these people live as squatters in unfinished 1970s era luxury hotels facing the Indian Ocean.

Many separate but related religious groups of that era shared similar mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs.

Many tracks previously laid in the pre-oil era ( prior to the 1930s ) were resurfaced and widened, turning them into ' road arteries '.

Many of these vintage motels, some dating to the cabin court era of the 1930s, have been renovated, restored and added to the US National Register of Historic Places or the corresponding local and state listings.

Many of the most challenging tenor roles in the repertory were written during the bel canto era, such as Donizetti's sequence of 9 Cs above middle C during La fille du régiment.

Many historians now prefer to use the term " Early Modern " for this period, a more neutral designation that highlights the period as a transitional one between the Middle Ages and the modern era.

Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable.

Many of these paper prints survived longer and in better condition than the actual films of that era.

Many believe that without the group's primary producer, Ced Gee, the golden era of sampling may have looked very different.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the " Dust Bowl Troubadour.

Many of the leading press barons of the era, such as Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and John and Gardner Cowles, publishers of the Minneapolis Star and the Minneapolis Tribune, as well as The Des Moines Register and Look magazine, supported Willkie in their newspapers and magazines.

Many backfired on him, and were opposed by the aristocracy who had much to lose from these " Enlightenment " era reforms, especially the fear of a weakened or toppled political and economic elite.

Many items of archaeological interest from this Hellenic era have been retrieved and are displayed in various places locally.

Many buildings in the city from the Spanish colonial era are still standing.

Many Hokkien chose to work in Southeast Asia ( where they had earlier links starting from the Ming era ), as did the Cantonese.