Several Kōga ninja — some apparently descended from those involved in the 1562 assault on an Imagawa clan castle — volunteered despite being warned that chances of survival were slim.

Several relatives of the Blackadder family include the Puritan Whiteadders, and the Highlander clan of MacAdder.

Several members of the imperial Liu clan were naturally suspicious of Acting Emperor Wang's intentions.

Several members of the Dong clan became important officials as well, displacing the Fus and the Dings after Grand Empress Dowager Fu died in 2 BC.

Several members of the imperial Liu clan were suspicious of Acting Emperor Wang's intentions.

Several members of the Hatfield clan surrounded the McCoy cabin and opened fire on the sleeping family.

Several ufoks make up Ekpuks or extended family and several Ekpuks ( extended families ) make up " Idung " ( meaning village ) and several villages make up the " abie " or clan.

Several Papyeong Yoon women became queens during the early Joseon Dynasty, and the last ruling Empress, Empress Sunjeong of the Korean Empire, was from another Yoon clan, Haepyeong Yoon.

Several monasteries were founded in the region, in Százd ( by the Aba clan, 11th century ), Boldva ( by the queen, 12th century ), Kács ( by the Örsúr clan ), Tapolca ( by the Miskolc clan ), Bélháromkút ( by the Bishop of Eger, after 1232 ).

Several lineages from a single clan constitute the core of every village.

Several families of a common lineage live together in a village, and in turn, several related villages form a clan.

Several years later, after the death of Takeda Shingen, Kōsa secured the aid of the Mōri clan in fighting Oda Nobunaga and defending the Hongan-ji's supply lines from blockade.

Several accounts note Muhammad's companions as executioners, Ali and Al-Zubayr in particular, and that each clan of the Aws was also charged with killing a group of Qurayza men.

Several risk management standards have been developed including the Project Management Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, actuarial societies, and ISO standards.

Several modern societies have been formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.

Several secret societies in Shandong predated the Boxers.

Several editors used the device of veiling parliamentary debates as debates of fictitious societies or bodies.

Several ancient societies built impressive mathematical systems and carried out complex calculations based on proofless heuristics and practical approaches.

Several officially-approved societies of traditionalist priests exist, most notably the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter ( FSSP ), the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest ( ICRSS ), the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, the Institute of the Good Shepherd ( IGS ), the Servants of Jesus and Mary ( Servi Jesu et Mariae, SJM ), the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem ( CRNJ ), the Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius ( SJC ), the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer, and the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney ( PAASJV ).

Several major societies within the game were declared the results of centuries of subtle, behind-the-scenes guidance, with varying degrees of success.

" Several anti-slavery societies had been formed and free blacks, Quakers and other abolitionists operated safe houses associated with the Underground Railroad, but lower class and ethnic whites opposed the abolitionist movement because of competition for jobs.

Several academic associations and societies promote research in the field.

Several students societies, inter-college festivals, and the college magazine " Nirmaan " serve as a platform to enhance students personality.

Several students who had not been admitted to the Greek societies had chosen to transfer.

Several fan societies have sprung up in the official forums including the Jake Groupies, Ana Matronic Appreciation Society, and the Scissor Sisters Party Bus ; the latter two having spilled over to their own sites.

Several of the founders were members of the Irving Literary Society, but they wanted to cut across the boundaries of this and other literary societies to form their new fraternity.

Several secret societies also develop, using eugenics programs, intensive mental and physical training, and pharmaceutical enhancements to hone human skills to an astonishing degree.

Several institutions and societies are producing standards on alarm management to assist their members in the best practices use of alarms in industrial manufacturing systems.

Several other societies have come and gone, notably the Ferrymead Military Museum Society.

Several ancient Polynesian societies exhibited a diarchic political structure as well.

Several breeding societies have lately come under scrutiny for breeding their horses too " hot ".

Several other societies share the Philomathean name.

Several centuries before Western civilisation developed the science of sociology, the 14th century Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun concluded that societies are living organisms that, due to universal causes, experience cyclic birth, growth, maturity, decline, and inevitable death.

Several of the societies in the book practice the sacrifice of kings.

Several SAR societies and chapters have active color guard groups that appear in various public and private venues as a means of community outreach.

Several British and other universities have debating societies called The Union or a variation on that.

Several studies have found that the death rates from inter-group violence are similar for human non-state societies and chimpanzees.

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: