Several stories feature clandestine efforts to liberate the Underpeople and grant them civil rights.

Several disciplines have developed as separate branches of comparative law, including comparative constitutional law, comparative administrative law, comparative civil law ( in the sense of the law of torts, delicts, contracts and obligations ), comparative commercial law ( in the sense of business organisations and trade ), and comparative criminal law.

( Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.

Several seals of civil servants and other Byzantine officials, dated to the first half of the 9th century, prove the presence of Byzantine armies in the city.

Several Battlefield streets, parks, and other landmarks are named for events and people related to the battle-such as Nathaniel Lyon Street, one of the town's main thoroughfares, named for Union General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general to die in the civil war.

Several other states including Vermont, California, New Jersey, Washington, Illinois, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii, Maryland, Colorado, Delaware, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Maine allow same-sex couples to enter into civil unions or domestic partnerships that provide some of the rights and responsibilities of marriage under state law.

Several prominent civil engineer considered the problems of Deeping Fen and the river outfall at the end of the 1700s.

Several days later, Gurino used a contact, corrupt Queens County Deputy Sherriff William Cassele, to enter the county's civil prison on the night of March 29, 1940.

Several ruinous civil wars in the late 1600s had squandered the country's human and other resources ; the 1690s also saw several years of wide-scale crop failure, which brought famine.

Several of the airline's fleet and routes have been grounded since March 2011 due to the Libyan civil war of the same year.

Several secular, mainly Humanist, organizations direct civil confirmations for older children, as a statement of their life stance that is an alternative to traditional religious ceremonies for children of that age.

Several news and civil rights organizations filed amicus briefs in support of Phelps, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and twenty one other media organizations.

Several ceasefires had occurred over the course of the Nepalese civil war.

Several Austrian-German civil servants came here, and office buildings, with a new town hall, courthouse, prison and schools were built.

Several ceasefires have occurred over the course of the Nepalese civil war.

Several Buddhist dedications by Greeks in India are recorded, such as that of the Greek meridarch ( civil governor of a province ) named Theodorus, describing in Kharoshthi how he enshrined relics of the Buddha.

* Several civil suits have been filed against home insurance and vehicle insurance companies after the insurers were advised by McKinsey, and allegedly paid the insured parties significantly less than the actual value of the damage.

Several months later, he was recalled to serve as deputy minister of civil service affairs ( 吏部侍郎, Libu Shilang ), and was soon promoted to be the minister of civil service affairs ( 吏部尚書, Libu Shangshu ).

Several accidental activations of Mizuho's teleport technology ( which were inadvertently caused by Kei ) eventually place Kei and Mizuho in a couple of compromising situation in front of his uncle and aunt and his school's headmaster, but Kei protects Mizuho from charges for an inappropriate relationship between student and teacher by impulsively stating that they are married, resulting in an actual civil marriage that later blossoms into genuine affection for each other.

Several civil suits were settled out of court for undisclosed amounts.

Several Bactrian kings followed after Demetrius ' death, and it seems likely that the civil wars between them made it possible for Apollodotus I ( from c. 180 / 175 BC ) to make himself independent as the first proper Indo-Greek king ( who did not rule from Bactria ).

Several members of the Swiss family Grubenmann were famous as joiners and civil engineers in the 18th century.

Several countries award a military or civil medal called Medal of Merit:

Several on the Board of Directors considered filing action against the Synod in civil court as a way to re-assert their authority within the church.

Several class action lawsuits had been filed in regards to the adverse reactions suffered by those exposed to ciprofloxacin during the anthrax scare of 2001, as well.

) Several lawsuits were filed by victims ' descendants, and a massive nationwide recall of many products by several companies took place.

Several lawsuits have emerged in the last decade with regards to water contamination and ground gas seepage due to decades of dumping on the DuPont site.

Several defamation lawsuits have ensued since JonBenét's murder.

Several lawsuits by concert-goers against the promoters for dehydration and distress were announced.

Several lawsuits and consumer complaints have accused ChoicePoint of providing inaccurate and out-of-date information in its criminal background reports, resulting in unfair job losses for applicants.

Several lawsuits are underway after people who had been prescribed gabapentin for off-label treatment of bipolar disorder later attempted or committed suicide.

Several of the letters were written by former Church members who raised lawsuits against the church.

Several wireless providers, including T-Mobile, Verizon, and Cingular filed earlier lawsuits against records brokers, with Cingular winning an injunction against First Data Solutions and 1st Source Information Specialists on 13 January.

Several lawsuits were filed in conjunction with this Directive.

* Several class action lawsuits have been brought against individual registries in the names of tenants who have won their cases in housing court but remain blacklisted.

Several lawsuits and countersuits ensued.

Several lawsuits were planned by residents against the owner and on July 11, 2006, the town went to court against the dump for a compensation of over $ 55, 000 for the fire and cover costs for the evacuation process and firefighters salary Tensions rose once more when the owner, Gilles Proulx, launched a $ 750, 000 lawsuit against a local couple.

Several defamation lawsuits have ensued since JonBenét's murder.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

Several conventions have been held in recent months in hotels on a nonsegregated basis.

Several dentists and patients with special dental problems have experimented with the device.

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

Several financial institutions, both banks and insurance companies, have been sounded out.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.

Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

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 AFI Alums have received both national and international recognition.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

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 additional candidates for written ASL have appeared in over the years, including Sutton SignWriting, Sign Script, ASL-phabet, and Si5s.

Several genres of fiction have been confused as alternate histories.

Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity.

Several of Ambrose's works have recently been published in the bilingual Latin-German Fontes Christiani series ( currently edited by Brepols ).

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

Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI.

Several alternatives to the human sacrifice have been presented in Greek mythology.

Several other princes have borne the name Alexander: