Several attempts were made to gather these practices into coherent frameworks such as FUSION.

Several other Western styles use the same tools and practices, but differ by the characters set, and by stylistic preferences.

Several state attorney generals have begun investigating these practices, which may violate fair lending laws, and the NAACP have filed a class-action lawsuit charging systematic racial discrimination by more than a dozen banks.

Several school movements — most notably with the charter school movement — encourage strict paternalistic practices to enforce student discipline.

Several WCO committees, such as the Harmonized System Committee, the Permanent Technical Committee, the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation, Technical Committee on Rules of Origin, the Capacity Building Committee, and the SAFE Working Group, provide a platform for developing instruments and best practices on customs competencies.

Several humanistic psychologists — such as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm — developed theories and practices that involve human happiness.

Several of the oldest Catholic families in Santa Cruz are in fact of Jewish origin ; some traces of Judaic practices are still alive among them and have also influence the rest of the community.

Several days later, during LeFrançois's suspension, a former Via Rail marketing department employee, Myriam Bédard, claimed she was fired several years earlier when she questioned company billing practices in dealing with advertising companies.

Several eyewitness accounts tell of his working practices in the 1920s.

Several recommended practices documents are also available.

Several writings of Eligius have survived: a sermon in which he combats the pagan practices of his time, a homily on the Last Judgment, and a letter written in 645, in which he begs for the prayers of Bishop Desiderius of Cahors.

Several soothsayers or necromancers of the late fifteenth century adopted the name Faustus, a reference to the Latin for " favoured " or " auspicious "; typical was Georgius Faustus Helmstetensis, calling himself astrologer and chiromancer, who was expelled from the town of Ingolstadt for such practices.

Several folk traditions about the wild man correspond with ancient practices and beliefs.

Several have expressed the view that any beliefs or practices which significantly interferes with a Jew's relationship with God may, in some way, be termed " idolatry ".

Several states ' usury laws, including Tennessee and New Jersey, prevent hard money lenders from operating with their usual practices.

Several of the regulations passed were attempts at eliminating certain festivals and practices, in many cases because they were ascribed a pagan origin.

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 new presidios were established in the region to monitor immigration and customs practices.

Several Sámi shamanistic beliefs and practices were similar to those of some Siberian cultures.

Several factors gave rise to increased adherence to Islamic practices.

Several ill social practices were abolished, unused land were brought under cultivation and the administration was updated.

Several of Santa Cruz's oldest Catholic families are in fact of Jewish origin ; some traces of Judaic practices may still be alive among them and have also influenced the rest of the community.

Several towns in Maine have objected to the business practices of Poland Spring and its parent company Nestlé.

Several Federal and State higher courts decisions have outlined several bad practices ; Heintz vs. Jenkins, In re: Vinhee, Mcollough vs. Johnson, Rodenburg, Lauinger, Komarova v. Nation Credit Acceptance Inc.

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.