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 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 architects and architectural firms focus on certain project types ( for example, health care, retail, public housing, event management ), technological expertise or project delivery methods.

Many architects elect to move into real estate ( property ) development, corporate facilities planning, project management, construction management, interior design or other related fields.

Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.

Many other architects have left their impression on the Chicago skyline such as Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Charles B. Atwood, John Root, and Helmut Jahn.

Many Italian Baroque artists, mostly architects and musicians, settled in the Slovene Lands, and contributed greatly to the development of the local culture.

Many architects and structural engineers have analyzed the Collapse of the World Trade Center | collapse of the Twin Towers.

Many of the painters, sculptors, music composers, architects, playwrights, and filmmakers who belonged to it, and still others associated with its members, were the same ones whose art would later be denounced as " degenerate art " by Adolf Hitler.

Many notable churches and Baroque mansions were built in the city during this period by the architects, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Galeazzo Alessi and Ricchino himself.

Many artists, designers, and architects think like inventors.

Many of the residences in East Hancock were designed by prominent local architects.

Many of the early sketches by Turner were studies of Architecture and / or exercises in perspective and it is known that the young Turner worked for several architects including Thomas Hardwick ( junior ), James Wyatt and Bonomi the Elder.

Many contemporary marine architects and backyard amateurs have been experimenting with the dory type and refining the type to some extent.

Many buildings in Oak Park were built by other Prairie School architects such as George W. Maher, John Van Bergen, and E. E.

Many of the pottery pieces were designed by famous architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright Produced for only a few years, this pottery exemplifies the Arts and Crafts Movement and today is highly sought after by art collectors.

Many of the houses in the Park were built prior to World War II, and many of these were designed by noted architects using the finest materials.

Many of its courses were designed by well-known golf course architects, such as John Van Kleek, Seymour Dunn, Alexander H. Findlay, and Alister MacKenzie.

Many architects, particularly in the Modernist movement, design buildings that prioritize structural purity and clarity of form over concessions to human scale.

Many Norwegians often refer to him as " Landsfaderen " ( Father of the Fatherland ); he is generally considered one of the main architects of the rebuilding of Norway after World War II.

Many blamed middlemen and hoarders as the ultimate architects of the shortage.

Many of his buildings are airy and elegant, yet he was considered a maverick genius by his contemporaries and exerted little influence on subsequent generations of Bohemian architects.

Many successful and influential architects such as Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Violet-Le-Duc and Tadao Ando were self-taught.

Many of these buildings were designed by notable architects such as Albert Kahn and Minoru Yamasaki.

Many of the Catalan architects of his time opposed Cerdà's ideas, even accusing him of promoting socialism.

Many architects and critics had disapproved of Stirling's shift away from the modernist assemblages of his early career, to explorations of design that engaged the urban context more directly and that appropriated elements from a broader range of historical precedents than the modern, engineering and vernacular sources that typified the first works.