Many police departments advise burglary or robbery victims to visit local pawnshops to see if they can locate stolen items.

Many pawnshops will also trade used items, as long as the transaction turns a profit for pawn shop.

* 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 Pacific typhoons start in the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.

Many major cities in the Philippines are independent cities, classified as either " highly urbanized " or " independent component " cities.

Many of the F-100 aircraft deployed to the Philippines were further deployed to Thailand.

Many bicameral countries like the Netherlands, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Ireland and Romania are examples of bicameral systems existing in unitary states.

Many of these marriage agencies are based near women in developing countries ( such as Ukraine, Russia, Colombia, Brazil, China, Thailand and the Philippines ).

Many legal systems in Asia are within the civil law tradition and have enacted a civil code, mostly derived from the German civil code ; that is the case of Japan, Korea, Thailand ( the Civil and Commercial Code ), Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia which is influenced by the Dutch Civil Code ( Burgerlijke Wetboek ).

Many republics also hold a yearly event in which the president gives a speech to a joint session of the legislature, such as the State of the Union Address given by the President of the United States or the State of the Nation Address by the President of the Philippines.

Many refugees would have been accepted by Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, but hardly any wanted to settle in these countries.

Many products are now manufactured in China, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Many churches further became united and is now called the United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

Many women were spies for America during World War II, for example the singer Josephine Baker, whose long residency in France helped her form an underground network, and Claire Phillips, a spy in the Philippines ( then occupied by Japan ) who in addition to spying sent aid and supplies to the American POWs ; Claire was tortured, but never admitted to knowing the people in her spy ring, and after the war she was recognized by the American and Philippine governments for her heroism.

Many items are especially from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Taiwan, and Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Many Forbes family members are influential in local or national politics in France, the US and the Philippines.

Many of the so-called " Kastilas " or Spaniards in the Philippines were actually of Mexican descent, and the Hispanic culture of the Philippines is somewhat close to Mexican culture.

Many veterans of the Indian Wars took the " only good Indian is a dead Indian " mentality with them to the Philippines, and " civilize ' em with a Krag " became a similar catchphrase.

Many Chinatowns have a long history, such as Shinchimachi, the nearly three-century old Chinatown in Nagasaki, Japan, or Yaowarat Road in Bangkok, which was founded by Chinese traders more than 200 years ago, and the oldest Chinatown in the world located outside of China is in Binondo, Manila in the Philippines.

Many of them are immigrants of the Philippines, and the streets of Waipahu have many small Filipino owned businesses.

Many Japanese were deported to Macau or to the Spanish Philippines.

Many Vietnamese boat refugees who crossed the South China Sea landed in the Philippines after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.

Many, if not all people in the Philippines, including Chinese Filipinos themselves, use and accept the term " Filipino Chinese "/" Filipino-Chinese ".

Many new cultural twists have evolved within the Chinese community in the Philippines, distinguishing it from other overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.

Many of them have drifted into the cities and towns and seaports.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

Many styles have perforations and an almost weightlessness achieved via unlined leathers.

Many such loans have been made to establish small concerns or to aid in their growth, thereby contributing substantially to community development programs.

Many mills have already placed firm orders for this machine.

Many states have laws regulating the use of boat trailers and some have restrictions regarding the age of motor boat operators.

Many companies have upgraded their sales manpower and tested new selling, distribution, and promotion techniques to gain a bigger competitive edge.

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.

Many of the men on our campus have a pretty set curriculum, especially in the various engineering fields, with few electives till the senior year.

Many of the suggested systems seem to have only the most tenuous relationship to the language structures that they purport to represent.

Many rate increases already have been put into effect.

Many years have passed since a Metropolitan audience heard anything comparable.

Many studies have observed the effects of volunteerism ( as a form of altruism ) on happiness and health and have consistently found a strong connection between volunteerism and current and future health and well-being.

Many of them also have infixes.

Many aquatic salamanders and all tadpoles have gills in their larval stage, with some ( such as the axolotl ) retaining gills as aquatic adults.

Many songs have used this term, including the American patriotic songs " America, The Beautiful " and " God Bless the USA ".

Many amateurs are beginners or hobbyists, while others have a high degree of experience in astronomy and often assist and work alongside professional astronomers.

Many definitions of art have been proposed by philosophers and others who have characterized art in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values.

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

Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.