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 GA-style guitars also have a convex back panel to increase the volume of space in the soundbox without making the soundbox deeper at the edges, which would affect comfort and playability.

Many bars kept extra liquor in a secret panel behind the bar, or in a car down the block, to facilitate resuming business as quickly as possible if alcohol was seized.

Many flat panel LCD monitors have only the DVI-D connection so that a DVI-D male to DVI-D male cable will suffice when connecting the monitor to a computer's DVI-I female connector.

Many tops have decorative " borders ", of plainer design, surrounding the central panel of the top and enlarging the quilt.

Many panels were also made for the actor Rock Hudson, one of which consisted of a navy blue background with silver " Rock Hudson " and stars, above a rainbow with the word " Hollywood ".< ref > Rock Hudson AIDS Quilt panel.

Many HPs are fitted with additional equipment in the platform itself, which can include a control panel, lighting equipment, a fixed water outlet or monitor, power outlets or compressed air outlets ( allowing the fixing of rescue equipment, such as hydraulic rescue tools ).

She also made regular appearances on the long-running ( 1948 to date ) BBC radio series Any Questions ?, on the radio panel game Many a Slip and on the women's discussion series The Petticoat Line.

Many of the early users of PCs were mainframe programmers or users, who were accustomed to and liked the ISPF panel system.

Many Perishers strips are polyptychs-a single continuous background image is divided into three or four panels and the characters move across it from panel to panel.

Many overhead projectors are used with a flat panel LCD which, when used this way is referred to as a spatial light modulator or SLM.

Many works of art from the era show Charles XI as a victorious warrior in Scania and on the central panel of Jacques Foucquet ’ s monumental ceiling painting in the Stockholm Royal Palace, Charles XI is depicted with " the goddess of Scania " at his feet.

Many options, such as font selection, paper size and tray selection, I / O settings, and test prints are also available at this control panel through a menu system.

" Many Pit Bull fans jokingly claimed that since they agreed with most of what was being questioned of NASCAR by the panel ( and most of the time, it was Mulhern and Blake doing the questioning ) that they were " anti-NASCAR ," even though they were NASCAR fans.

Many other large panel system buildings like Ronan Point have since been demolished.

Many states have a central panel agency, but the agency does not handle all the hearings for every state agency.

Plomley's broadcasting career was not restricted to Desert Island Discs ; he also compiled and presented several feature programmes and was the chairman of BBC Radio's game show Many a Slip from 1964 to 1979, and a participant in such panel games as Does the Team Think ?, also on BBC Radio.

Many of the regular panel members have hosted the show since its early stages such as James O ' Brien, Janet Ellis, Kate Silverton, Henry Bonsu, Anne Diamond, Vanessa Feltz, Lowri Turner, Matt Allwright, Kaye Adams, Nihal Arthenayke, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Andrew Castle.

Many of them also come with customizable, prefabricated ' widgets ' that accomplish such common tasks as picking a date from a calendar, displaying a data chart, or making a tabbed panel.

Many elements in the panel incorporate earlier iconographical conventions depicting hell.

Many popular figures have appeared on the programme more than once: the record for appearances is held by Tony Benn, who first appeared as a panel member in March 1951 and has contributed to over 80 programmes.

Many of his works are unusually large for Netherlandish panel paintings of the time, as are those of Hieronymus Bosch, another painter of large landscapes, from a generation earlier.

( Many times, the scene cut to a pre-drawn panel of Spidey using his web-shooters, with the caption " Take that!

Many Dutch painters of the Golden Age used panel for their small works, including Rembrandt on occasion.