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 jurisdictions in the US have declared barratry ( in the sense of a frivolous or harassing litigant ) to be a crime as part of their tort reform efforts.

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

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

Several public health efforts were attempted.

Several human-made enclosures have been made to support breeding and shelter, with several people clearing an area for the penguins and burying the huts, most notably The Knox School, when their efforts were filmed and broadcast in 2008 by Totally Wild.

Several countries offered to assist in the rescue efforts and investigation.

Several countries worldwide continue efforts to qualify Hall thruster technology for commercial uses.

Several efforts were made by the various German manufacturers to develop a single unified keyboard system for all German concertinas ; but this was only partially accomplished at the end of the 19th century when the Chemnitzer and Carlsfelder systems were merged into the unified concertina system and a unified bandonion system was created.

Several efforts were made to induce him to submit, but without effect, and in November he was attained of misprision of treason a second time, his goods being forfeited as from the previous First of March, and the See of Rochester being declared vacant as of 2 June following.

Several software radio efforts use the open source SDR library DttSP.

Several efforts have been made to incorporate Moss Bluff, but at current time the community is unincorporated.

Several efforts were made between the years 1830 and 1840 to erect a new county, with Savannah as the county seat ; this failing, the town declined for several years.

* Several efforts at strengthening the non-petroleum related Norwegian economy

Several towns in Minnesota were founded as a result of these efforts, including Nelson and Ashby.

Several technology research and development efforts exist to integrate the functions of aircraft flight control systems such as ailerons, elevators, elevons, flaps, and flaperons into wings to perform the aerodynamic purpose with the advantages of lower RCS for stealth via simpler geometries and lower complexity ( mechanically simpler, fewer or no moving parts or surfaces, less maintenance ), and lower mass, cost ( up to 50 % less ), drag ( up to 15 % less during use ) and, inertia ( for faster, stronger control response to change vehicle orientation to reduce detection ).

Several more expansion projects such as the construction of the HKUST Enterprise Centre have since been completed and current efforts include the expansion of housing facilities scheduled for completion for 2009.

Several orchid species thought to be extinct in the United Kingdom including one native species in this genus have been found in habitat and are currently the subject of aggressive conservation efforts to protect and restore these showy plants to their native ranges.

Several royalist leaders, such as Vigodet or Pezuela, sought an alliance with Artigas against Buenos Aires, but he rejected them: " I may not be sold, nor I want more reward for my efforts to see my nation free of the Spanish power ".

Several fundamental disagreements identified by the New Conference and adherents included: allowing regular group Bible studies outside of the Sunday worship setting ; permitting open outreach & mission efforts ; use of email and the Internet ; Scriptural application of church discipline as guided by Matthew 18 ; and a perceived violation of the Scriptural principle of nonresistance, whereby majority disfellowshipped minority when they could not submit in good conscience to limited options forced upon them without prior conference council or discussion.

Several Strip hotels have undertaken efforts to make the street more pedestrian-friendly.

Several technology research and development efforts exist to integrate the functions of aircraft flight control systems such as ailerons, elevators, elevons and flaps into wings to perform the aerodynamic purpose with the advantages of less: mass, cost, drag, inertia ( for faster, stronger control response ), complexity ( mechanically simpler, fewer moving parts or surfaces, less maintenance ), and radar cross section for stealth.

Several efforts were undertaken in order to help downtown compete for retail.

Several days following Saddam's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, he was among the first to articulate the neoconservative principle that the Iraqi occupation was such a globally destabilizing event that it required all nations of the world ( including the former Soviet Union ) to choose sides in the conflict, standing with the U. S. in its efforts to dislodge Iraqi forces from Kuwait or to be seen, in the eyes of U. S. foreign policy, as siding with America's enemies.

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: