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 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 pages from the Codex Mendoza list tributary towns along with the goods they supplied, which included not only luxuries such as feathers, adorned suits, and greenstone beads, but more practical goods such as cloth, firewood, and food.

Several politicians have imitated this pattern, including Ronald Reagan's famous example of clearing brush when at home in California, while wearing fine suits in Washington.

Several properties of an eyepiece are likely to be of interest to a user of an optical instrument, when comparing eyepieces and deciding which eyepiece suits their needs.

Several cases were brought pursuant to this statute, including suits brought by David Muskrat and J. Henry Dick opposing the partition of Indian lands, and by another pair, William Brown and Levi B. Gritts, opposing a prohibition against the sale of certain Indian lands.

Several were firing into the barn when Billy Tilghman arrived.

Several effects were immediately evident.

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 efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

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 samples of citrated plasma were fractionated in our laboratory by Method 6 of Cohn et al.

Several New England realtors were invited to participate in a small colloquium of property lawyers, political scientists, economists, social psychologists, social ethicists and theologians.

Several of the movements were given a marked impetus by revivalism.

Several were born in the early decades and persisted throughout the century.

( 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 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 photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost every field.

Several singers of the aurès mountains were inspired by this style as Youcef Boukhantech.

Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem.

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 later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

* Several scenes in the movie, Gaudi Afternoon, were filmed at Casa Milà.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

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 engagements took place outside the town and the Romans were eventually victorious.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.

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