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Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).
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There is one other point we should never lose sight of: Many veterans who enter VA hospitals as non-service cases later qualify as service-connected.
Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.
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 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 ).
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 individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.
Many experts at the time, including Arthur Galston, the biologist who developed and intensively studied TCDD, opposed herbicidal warfare, due to concerns about the side effects to humans and the environment by indiscriminately spraying the chemical over a wide area.
Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.
Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to her eldest son Noel who was often ill.
Many phrases are characteristic of the German reformer Martin Bucer, or of the Italian Peter Martyr, ( who was staying with Cranmer at the time of the finalising of drafts ), or of his chaplain, Thomas Becon.
Many ordinary churchgoers — that is, those who could afford a copy, as it was expensive — would own a copy of the prayer book.
Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.
Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness.
Many who lived in cities had lost the skills necessary for survival in an agrarian environment.
Many of the Yakoma soldiers who left the country after the mutinies in 1996 – 1997 have now returned and must also be reintegrated into the army.
Many, but not all, who consider themselves cognitive scientists have a functionalist view of the mind — the view that mental states are classified functionally, such that any system that performs the proper function for some mental state is considered to be in that mental state.
Many older strips are no longer drawn by the original cartoonist, who has either died or retired.
Many of the Scots who immigrated there were either Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, which can be seen in a number of island landmarks and place names.
Many who thought themselves smarter.
Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.
" 19: 25-27 Again, the prophet Daniel writes, " Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Many of those players came from the Indians ' new AAA farm team, the Charlotte Knights, who won the International League title that year.
Many who were hired to head those departments were so-called " nestlings of Kerensky " (), the former convicts ( political and criminal ) that released by the Kerensky amnesty.
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Many are attracted by the glitzy hotels on the south side and Acapulco ’ s famous nightlife.
Many of these drugs combat the side effects of opioid analgesics, an added bonus.
Many of them take second jobs on the side or even venture into other occupations within the field of sports such as coaching, general management, refereeing or recruiting and scouting up and coming athletes.
Many flags are dyed through and through to be inexpensive to manufacture, such that the reverse side is the mirror image of the obverse ( front ) side, generally the side displayed when the flag is flying from the observer's point of view from left, the side of the pole, to right.
Many cycles can run in reverse to move heat from the cold side to the hot side, making the cold side cooler and the hot side hotter.
Many mathematicians feel that to call their area a science is to downplay the importance of its aesthetic side, and its history in the traditional seven liberal arts ; others feel that to ignore its connection to the sciences is to turn a blind eye to the fact that the interface between mathematics and its applications in science and engineering has driven much development in mathematics.
Many martial arts, especially those from Asia, also teach side disciplines which pertain to medicinal practices.
Many species of flatfish begin their life bilaterally symmetrical, with an eye on either side of the body ; but one eye moves to join the other side of the fish-which becomes the upper side-in the adult form.
Many monasteries around Tibet have large, fixed, metal wheels set side by side in a row.
Many variations of this type exist, such as being canted forwards or backwards, and being carried on the dominant hand side, off-hand side, or the small of the back.
Many medieval shoes were made using the turnshoe method of construction, in which the upper was turned flesh side out, and was lasted onto the sole and joined to the edge by a seam.
Many of its older buildings have been renovated, and a business and commercial area is being developed into the New City Centre, expected to become the city's main administrative and business district on the north side of the Neris river.
* Many side dishes, such as mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, some bread stuffings, seasoned rice, and macaroni and cheese.
Many troops from North America were reassigned to participate in further British actions in the West Indies, including the capture of Spanish Havana when Spain belatedly entered the conflict on the side of France, and a British expedition against French Martinique in 1762.
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Many of them, in increasing panic, came running with water in their hats in a ludicrous effort.
Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.
Good service starts with product design and planning: Many products seem to be designed for a production economy, not for a service one.
Many of today's developments in thermoforming stem from original work done with signs and displays ; ;
Many other vehicles with smaller sensitive-area exposure-time products contribute some information.
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 potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;
Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.
Many people agreed that burns should be treated with bland oily salves or unsalted butter or lard, but one informant told me that a burn should be bathed in salt water ; ;
Many appeared to regard their sexual behavior as a justifiable means of gaining acceptance from and identification with others ; ;
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Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.
" Many would agree with the Dalai Lama that Buddhism as a religion is kindness toward others.
Many aquatic salamanders and all tadpoles have gills in their larval stage, with some ( such as the axolotl ) retaining gills as aquatic adults.
Many people with serious visual impairments live independently, using a wide range of tools and techniques.
Many languages use modified forms of the Latin alphabet, with additional letters formed using diacritical marks.
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.
Many British publications have gradually done away with the use of periods in abbreviations.
Many deist freethinkers held that belief in an afterlife with reward and punishment was a necessity of reason and good morals.
Many members of the business community opposed the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry, although recent DNA tests have not shown any genetic similarity with modern Europeans.
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 antibacterial compounds are relatively small molecules with a molecular weight of less than 2000 atomic mass units.
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.
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