Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.

Many find aberration to be counter-intuitive, and a simple thought experiment based on everyday experience can help in its understanding.

Many scholars in those days thought it reasonable to believe that there exist means for transforming cheaper ( base ) metals into gold.

Many who thought themselves smarter.

Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

Many Christian Scientists thought the book violated the church's by-laws, and the editors of the church's religious periodicals and several other church employees resigned in protest.

Many thought the incident would end his season early, but Earnhardt refused to give up.

Many labels expected New York freestyle and Miami freestyle to have the same audience and thought that the same promotional strategy would work for both genres, which often led to poor results for the New York – based freestyle.

Many philosophers argue to the contrary, believing that, for example, the laws of thought cannot be revised and may be " held come what may ".

Many patients are initially unhappy at the thought of having to take a thyroid hormone pill for the rest of their lives.

Many writers note that historical materialism represented a revolution in human thought, and a break from previous ways of understanding the underlying basis of change within various human societies.

Many believed religion had been used as a source of conflict since time eternal, and that logical, rational thought was the way forward for mankind.

Many bear pictographic inscriptions generally thought to be a form of writing or script.

" Many people thought I was being reactionary ," he said.

Many thought Kemp had destroyed his own political future with the endorsement, and Kemp profusely apologized to Dole's campaign offices.

Many people with LEMS, both with and without VGCC antibodies, have detectable antibodies against the M1 subtype of the acetylcholine receptor ; it is thought that their presence participates in a lack of compensation for the slow calcium influx.

* Many everyday activities carried out without a thought are uses of mathematical models.

Many schools of Hindu thought espouse monistic theism, which is thought to be similar to a panentheistic viewpoint.

Many measures are part of modern psychophysiology including measures of brain activity such as ERPs, brain waves ( electroencephalography, EEG ), fMRI ( functional magnetic resonance imaging ), measures of skin conductance ( skin conductance response, SCR ; galvanic skin response, GSR ), cardiovascular measures ( heart rate, HR ; beats per minute, BPM ; heart rate variability, HRV ; vasomotor activity ), muscle activity ( electromyography, EMG ), changes in pupil diameter with thought and emotion ( pupillometry ) and eye movements, recorded via the electro-oculogram ( EOG ) and direction-of-gaze methods.

Many of the results of quantum mechanics are not easily visualized in terms of classical mechanics — for instance, the ground state in a quantum mechanical model is a non-zero energy state that is the lowest permitted energy state of a system, as opposed to a more " traditional " system that is thought of as simply being at rest, with zero kinetic energy.

Many long sections are ruler-straight, but it should not be thought that all of them were.

Victorian England was divided on Richard: " Many of them admired him as a crusader and man of God, erecting an heroic statue to him outside the Houses of Parliament ; Stubbs, on the other hand, thought him " a bad son, a bad husband, a selfish ruler, and a vicious man ".

Many experimental languages are concerned with the relation between language and thought.

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 high school students go past my house every day, and they look like perfect ladies and gentlemen.

Many of these experiences are so important that they will be cherished forever by me.

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

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

Many English Catholics are proud of their Catholicism and know that they are in a new ascendancy.

Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Many members of the movement are also aware of this, and argue that, as long as they have a common opponent, they should march together-even if they don't share exactly the same political vision.

Many observers claimed to have determined such parallaxes, but Tycho Brahe and Giovanni Battista Riccioli concluded that they existed only in the minds of the observers, and were due to instrumental and personal errors.

Many songs have been written to teach phonemic awareness and they are usually referred to as alphabet songs.

Many biennials require a cold treatment, or vernalization, before they will flower.

Many SysOps also adopted a theme in which they customized their entire BBS ( welcome screens, prompts, menus, and so on ) to reflect that theme.

Many common bronze alloys have the unusual and very desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling in the finest details of a mold.

Many of these barges have been renovated and are now used as luxury Hotel Barges carrying holiday makers along the same canals they once carried grain or coal.

Many observe the traditional bonfire rites, to whatever extent this is feasible where they live, including the dousing of the household hearth flame and relighting it from the communal fire.

Many branch lines ( and a number of main lines ) were closed because they were deemed uneconomic (" the Beeching Axe " of 1963 ), removing much feeder traffic from main line passenger services.

Many people regard bare female breasts to be erotic, and they can elicit heightened sexual desires in some men in some cultures.