Many of them, moreover, are beginning to complain about the scarcity of Western amusements and to ridicule the old life of the bazaar merchant, the mullah, and the peasant.

Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell's `` Tara '' Plantation.

Many people use wicker cradles for old red wine, lifting the bottle carefully from the bin into the cradle and eventually to the table, without disturbing the sediment.

Many of the recent TV Games series of old Atari games have included either the 2600 or arcade versions of Asteroids.

Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.

Many commercial BBS software companies that continue to support their old BBS software products switched to the shareware model or made it entirely free.

Many old retired buses have also been converted into mobile holiday homes and campers.

Many of their songs are very old and are said to date back to the old kingdom of Mali.

Many new roads were built, and old roads were quickly repaired.

Many in the city, struck with a reverential fear, tempered with joy, ran immediately to the church, young and old citizens and strangers, all with one voice giving praise to Jesus Christ.

Many people still mistakenly associate DIN with the old naming convention.

Many very old double basses have had their shoulders cut or sloped to aid playing with modern techniques.

Many English Parliamentarians had suspicions regarding such a move, because they feared that setting up a new kingdom might destroy the old English traditions which had bound the English monarchy.

Many old catechisms are in a question-and-answer ( Q & A ) format.

* Many disk galaxies have a puffed up outer disk ( often called the " thick disk ") that is composed of old stars.

Many have cited this work as an example of the stile antico ( old style ) or prima pratica ( first practice ).

Many customers kept using their old software and one of the features of the later System / 370 was the ability to switch to emulation mode and back under operating system control.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of the sea god and his alleged father, Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros (" wintry Anauros "), while helping an old woman to cross ( the Goddess Hera in disguise ).

Many examples of such devices have been found in old Roman mines and some examples are now preserved in the British Museum and the National Museum of Wales.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

Many olive trees in the groves around the Mediterranean are said to be hundreds of years old, while an age of 2, 000 years is claimed for a number of individual trees ; in some cases, this has been scientifically verified.

Many years later, Ken and Tanaka return to Otakuland in a post-apocalyptic submerged Japan and find its central structure, a giant robot, converted into a functional spaceship piloted by their old otaku friends.

Many slang terms for police officers are decades or centuries old with lost etymology.

Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as " The Bag o ' Nails " ( Bacchanals ), " The Goat and Compasses " ( God Encompasseth Us ), " The Cat and the Fiddle " ( Caton Fidèle ) and " The Bull and Bush ", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at " Boulogne Bouche " or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.

Many of the facilities at Ellis Island were abandoned and remain unrenovated.

Many of the inhabitants fought, escaped to the jungle, or fled to the safety of passing Dutch ships This Spanish action was counterproductive as English, Dutch, and French pirates were now free to establish bases on the island's abandoned northern and western coasts, where wild cattle were now plentiful and free.

Many areas, especially abandoned, formerly private farms, have become overgrown with low-value alders and other scrub trees.

Many pagan celebrations were abandoned or Christianized during the process of conversion in Europe.

Many such abandoned vessels have been extensively salvaged.

Many small rivers were altered or abandoned after the upper Ohio River formed.

Many of the citizens of Attica abandoned their farms and moved inside the long walls, which connected Athens to its port of Piraeus.

Many of these carefully collected scientific data had been lost during the ill-fated journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, two crew members sent on a mission by Amundsen, but they were later retrieved by Russian scientist Nikolay Urvantsev as they lay abandoned on the Kara Sea shores.

Many anarchist squats in Greece have an abandoned garden nearby which the occupants often re-purpose as a free garden to grow organic vegetables.

Many Trabants were abandoned after 1989.

Many airstrips ( now mostly abandoned ) were built on the hundreds of islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Many of the forts were abandoned, or removed from use, soon after construction.

Many of Humphrey's liberal friends and allies over the years abandoned him because of his refusal to publicly criticize Johnson's Vietnam War policies.

Many ancient villages had to be abandoned during construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China, leading to displacement of many rural people.

Many abandoned towns and settlements in the former Soviet Union were established near Gulag concentration camps to supply necessary services.

Many of the small settlements have now disappeared, so that the countryside is far emptier than was formerly the case, and many areas which were formerly farmed are now abandoned.

Many small gambling houses cropped up in abandoned temples or shrines at the edge of towns and villages all over Japan.

Many of the foreign parties that were fraternal parties aligned with the Chinese government before 1975 either disbanded, abandoned the new Chinese government entirely, or even renounced Marxism-Leninism and developed into non-communist, social democratic parties.

Many travelers would salvage discarded items, picking up essentials or leaving behind their lower quality item when a better one was found abandoned along the road.

Many had abandoned the farms altogether ; many more waged resistance to collectivization by poor work quality and pilfering.

Many of the Dutch settlements were lost or abandoned by the end of that century, but the Netherlands managed to retain possession of Suriname until it gained independence in 1975, as well as the former Netherlands Antilles, of which the islands remain within the Kingdom of the Netherlands today.

Many deserted or abandoned the army to ride north under French safe-conducts.

Many bores are unregulated or abandoned, resulting in considerable water wastage.

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