Several accidents have reportedly been caused by discharging firearms into the air ; although the evidence in a few such cases has been disputed, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 43 likely cases of injury from falling bullets during 2004 New Year celebrations in Puerto Rico.

Several cases have ruled that persons found not guilty by reason of insanity may not withdraw the defense in a habeas petition to pursue an alternative.

Several cases in California seem to have halted the practice in that state — the courts have allowed individual churches to leave the PC ( USA ) and keep their own assets, as well as parishes of the United Methodist and Episcopal denominations.

There is no explanation for the particular values that physical constants appear to have throughout our universe, such as Planck's constant h or the gravitational constant G. Several conservation laws have been identified, such as the conservation of charge, momentum, angular momentum and energy ; in many cases, these conservation laws can be related to symmetries or mathematical identities.

Several anti-itch medications are commercially available, including those taken orally, such as Benadryl, or topically applied antihistamines and, for more severe cases, corticosteroids, such as hydrocortisone and triamcinolone.

Several papers attached to this report give an account of the number of capital cases that occurred at certain places during a certain period of time.

Several hundred murder convictions were reviewed, leading to several high-profile cases being reopened and convictions overturned.

Several NFL players signed contracts, or in some cases, future contracts with teams in the World Football League.

Several cases have sought accounting of such funds from the departments of Interior ( in which the Minerals Management Service also has a role ) and Treasury in what has been a 15-year-old lawsuit.

Several ancient writers give figures for one or both of the armies but unfortunately they are contradictory and in some cases unbelievable.

Several areas of the collection have dedicated study rooms, these allow access to items in the collection that are not currently on display, but in some cases require an appointment to be made.

Several rocket cases were collected from Mysore and sent to Britain for analysis.

Several other studies exist which exhibit minor to moderate improvements in curvature, length and thickness but no cases of complete reversal of the Peyronies curvature.

Several Islamic thinkers contend that in cases prior to four months of gestation, abortion should be permissible only in instances in which the mother's life is in danger or in cases of rape.

Several cases of developmental verbal dyspraxia in humans have been linked to mutations in the FOXP2 gene.

Several government-sponsored reports by commissioned experts have pointed to public substance abuse treatment as opposed to criminalization as the only effective way to battle the public health crisis caused by drugs ; these recommendations have been mostly ignored by US government officials, and in some cases suppressed.

Several fossil species have been described, but their distinctness is not firmly established in all cases:

Several illicit enrichment claims filed in Buenos Aires did not prosper or were shelved with the same prosecutor involved in all cases.

Several teams failed to score at least 10 points in seasons of varying length ( up to 8 games in some cases ) between 1920 and 1931.

Several botulism cases were attributed to under-processed low-acid canned foods in 1970-71.

Several other classes of orthogonal polynomials, up to constant factors, are special cases of Jacobi polynomials, so these can be expressed using as well.

Several medical schools have incorporated problem-based learning into their curricula, using real patient cases to teach students how to think like a clinician.

Several cases recorded where the King specifically forbade the tenant from alienating a church or land held in perpetuity by the Crown, and presumably the equivalent of mortmain.

Several years ago headlines were made by a small radio transmitter capsule which could be swallowed by the patient and which would then radio internal pressure data to external receivers.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

Several other oxidation states are known, which range from + 2 to + 7 and can be identified by their characteristic optical absorption spectra.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

Several major cities exist either in the Andes or in the foothills, among which are Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, Colombia ; Quito, Ecuador ; Mérida, Venezuela ; La Paz, Bolivia ; Santiago, Chile, and Cusco, Peru.

Several religious brotherhoods which have sprung up in and around Milan at various times since the 14th century have been called Ambrosians.

* 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

Several original treatises also survive, and include a work On Fate, in which he argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity ; and one On the Soul.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.

Several groups succeeded this performance, among which was that of Daedalus and Icarus, the most celebrated work of his noviciate.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

Several manufacturers produce specialised acoustic guitar amplifiers, which are designed to give undistorted and full-range reproduction.

Several Evangelical groups reject the practice so as not to be identified with charismatic and Pentecostal groups, which practice it widely.

Several systems attempted to simulate the appearance of GUI displays which were just appearing as DOS add-ons or Apple systems.

Several leagues, seeing the writing on the wall, eventually joined the NA, which grew in size over the next several years.

Several structures make up a cabin: the similar but usually lighter structure which spans a raised cabin is a coach-roof.

* Several Aramaic targums of Esther were produced in the Middle Ages of which two survive-the Targum Rishon (" First Targum ") and Targum Sheni (" Second Targum ") dated c. 500-1000 CE.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.