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 of lizards become bipedal during high-speed, sprint locomotion, including the world's fastest lizard, the spiny-tailed iguana ( genus Ctenosaura ).

Many regard it as one of the world's first examples of modern journalism.

Many cities across the country have annual St Patrick's Day parades ; The nation's largest is in New York City — one of the world's largest parades.

Many visitors to Nashville attend live performances of the Grand Ole Opry, the world's longest running live radio show.

Many of the world's leading companies have now set up branch offices, and even changed headquarters to, there.

Many of the world's popular museums — from the Metropolitan in New York City to the Thyssen in Madrid or the Franz Mayer in Mexico City — have collections formed by the generous collectors that donated them to be seen by the general public.

Many of the world's deserts are caused by these climatological high-pressure areas.

Many of the world's rainforests are associated with the location of the monsoon trough, also known as the intertropical convergence zone.

Many mining companies have offices in Yakutsk including ALROSA, whose diamond mines in Yakutia account for about 20 % of the world's rough diamond output.

Many of its medieval buildings are notable, including the Church of Our Lady, whose brick spire reaches, making it one of the world's highest brick towers / buildings.

Many boys joined Scouting activities, resulting in the movement growing rapidly to become the world's largest youth organization.

Many of the world's wetlands are in temperate zones ( midway between the North or South Pole and the equator ).

Many systems were installed in the UK including the world's first supermarket teleshopping system.

Many of the world's finest Celtic musicians perform there, traveling from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and various regions of the U. S. to participate.

Many experts thought that San Juan's warm weather would affect Buchanan, but he upset those who thought that way and beat Laguna by a 15 round decision to become world's Lightweight champion.

Many of the world's mountaintops may be reached by walking or scrambling up their least-steep side.

Many of the world's leading astronomers have appeared on the show through the years, including Harlow Shapley ( the first to measure the size of the Milky Way galaxy ), Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Samuel Tolansky, Harold Spencer Jones, Martin Ryle, Carlos Frenk, and Bart Bok.

Many other documents reflect this value in the world's cultures.

* Sedimentary: Many of the world's most famous buildings have been built of sedimentary stone, from Durham Cathedral to St Peter's in Rome.

Some example of programs which have relied heavily on expert knowledge are Handtalk ( later known as Goemate ), The Many Faces of Go, Go Intellect, and Go ++, each of which has at some point been considered the world's best Go program.

Many of the world's deserts are caused by these climatological high-pressure areas.

Many stately homes have become open to the public ; Knebworth House, now a major venue for open air rock and pop concerts, Alton Towers, theme park and the most popular in the UK, and Longleat, the world's first safari park outside Africa.

Many design elements of the basilica symbolise nationalist themes: the portico, with its three arches, is adorned by two equestrian statues of French national saints Joan of Arc ( 1927 ) and King Saint Louis IX, both executed in bronze by Hippolyte Lefebvre ; and the nineteen-ton Savoyarde bell ( one of the world's heaviest ), cast in 1895 in Annecy, alludes to the annexation of Savoy in 1860.

Many visitors to the Ozark Folk Center also visit Blanchard Springs Caverns, float the Buffalo National River, or enjoy some of the world's best trout fishing on the White River, all of which are located in the Folk Center area.

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.