Many gangs sold alcohol illegally for tremendous profit, and used acute violence to stake turf and protect their interest.

Many leagues ban the use of the sliding tackle, though such techniques are less useful on turf or wood than they are on a slick field.

Many, if not most, purists also dislike the use of artificial turf instead of real grass on the playing field, which was introduced in 1965, and the use of a domed or other indoor playing facility ( also introduced in 1965, with the opening of the Astrodome in Houston ).

Many players have taken to wearing padded gloves, particularly on their left hand, both to protect against contact and allow them to scrape that hand ( while holding the stick ) across the synthetic turf without injury.

Many one-mile ( 1, 609 m ) tracks have a turf ( grass ) course inside of the main ( dirt ) track, most commonly measuring.

Many Cherry Hillers such as Yakey-Yakes Brady, Monk Eastman, and Bill " The Brute " Sanger, formed sub-gangs of their own and feuded constantly over turf and power.

Many of the residents continue to cut turf ( peat ) for use in heating their homes during the long winter months.

Many zones have internal puzzles or ' mazes ' to solve in order to obtain experience or equipment, while others are cities where players gather and socialize.

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 of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Many hills in England were named Beacon Hill after such beacons.

Many of these maxims had originated in Roman Law, migrated to England before the introduction of Christianity to the British Isles, and were typically stated in Latin even in English decisions.

Many of Charles's subjects felt this brought the Church of England too close to the Roman Catholic Church.

Many words derived from Norse, such as " gate " ( gade ) for street, still survive in Yorkshire and the East Midlands ( parts of eastern England ) colonized by Danish Vikings.

Many merchants from Amsterdam and Zeeland decided to work with marine and merchants from Hamburg, Glückstadt ( then Danish ), England and other countries.

Many tried to encourage Douglass to remain in England to be truly free of the fear of chains, but with three million of his black brethren in bondage in the US, he left England in spring of 1847.

Many of the king's vassals ( who included for a long time the kings of England ) ruled over territories far greater than his own.

Many of the disaffected barons came from the north of England ; that faction was often labelled by contemporaries and historians as " the Northerners ".

Many of John's military household joined the rebels, particularly amongst those that John had appointed to administrative roles across England ; their local links and loyalties outweighed their personal loyalty to John.

Many stadia in England had stands named after Spion Kop, but Anfield's was the largest of them at the time ; it could hold more supporters than some entire football grounds.

Many of the loughs in Northern England have also previously been called " meres " ( a Northern English dialect word for " lake " and an archaic Standard English word meaning " a lake that is broad in relation to its depth ") such as the Black Lough in Northumberland.

Many of the converts came from England and Scandinavia, and were quickly assimilated into the Mormon community.

Many Newfoundland dialects are similar to the West Country dialects of West Country, England, particularly the city of Bristol and counties Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while others resemble dialects of Ireland's southeast, particularly Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England, where baking foods such as pies, beans, and turkey were more common than frying as was the tradition elsewhere.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England and also brought with them traditions of dairy products and baking pies and other foods.

Many herbs were uncommon, particularly Mediterranean herbs, which are not hardy in much of New England away from the coast.

Many of the prisoners had prize-money to come from their own country ; many others made their own in their hammocks at night, even forging Bank of England and local bank notes, which they passed off in the great daily market held in the prison.

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 ".

* developmental non-rhotic ars ( often called lisps ): Many non-rhotic British speakers have a labialization to of their ars, which is between idosyncratic and dialectal ( southern and southwestern England ), and since it includes some RP speakers, somewhat prestigious.

Many of these barons had taken an oath to stay in Normandy until the late king was properly buried, which prevented them from returning to England.

Many Patronages of Saint George exist around the world, including: Georgia, England, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria, as well as of the Scout Movement and a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers.

Many of its sojourners were devoted to seclusion and quiet, and lived there to the end of their days.

Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.

Many aspects of civilization were not yet sufficiently crystallized to find expression, nor could the simple economic and social foundations of this world support a lofty structure.

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

Many patent contests were waged over automobile components and accessories, among them tires, detachable rims, ball bearings, license brackets, and electric horns.

Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.

Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;

Many anthropologists ( students and teachers ) were active in the antiwar movement.

Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Many batting records were set in this period.

Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite.

Many peasant parties were also nationalist parties, because peasants often worked their land for the benefit of landlords of different ethnicity.

Many remarkable insects and spiders were recently discovered in the amber of Jordan including the oldest zorapterans, clerid beetles, umenocoleid roaches, and achiliid planthoppers.

Many students left and were enrolled in the local common school or a recently re-opened private school for boys.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, " wine, window into a man ", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

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

Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

Many of these were arrested in Ireland, and some in Great Britain.

Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.