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

Several recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.

Several publishers, including Grand River Books, Potomac Books ( formerly known as Brassey's Inc .), and Skyhorse Publishing have re-published the Factbook in recent years.

Several enumerations have occurred since then, with the most recent two being carried out by Statistics South Africa in 1996 and 2001.

Several recent Tao Te Ching translations ( e. g., Lau 1989, Henricks 1989, Mair 1990, Henricks 2000, Allan and Williams 2000, and Roberts 2004 ) utilize these two versions, sometimes with the verses reordered to synthesize the new finds.

Several of these articles advocated his staunchly feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society ; alongside his early experiences with forced arranged marriage, this was possibly influenced by the recent death of his mother and his increasing romantic involvement with Yang Kaihui ( 1901 – 1930 ), the daughter of Mao's recently deceased mentor Yang Changji.

Several more recent games have been, in turn, influenced by Risus.

Several months after qualifying as a lecturer in philosophy, Adorno delivered an inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, an independent organization which had recently appointed Horkheimer as its director and, with the arrival of the literary scholar Leo Lowenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm and philosopher Herbert Marcuse, sought to exploit recent theoretical and methodological advances in the social sciences.

Several countries have closed their embassies in Zimbabwe in recent years to protest the policies of President Robert Mugabe, with the Czech Republic and Botswana being the latest to announce their intentions to do so.

Several African territories under European rule had achieved independence in recent decades.

Several recent authors suggested that the intake of simple sugars, and particularly fructose, is also a factor that contributes to insulin resistance.

Several locomotive classes have been powered by gas turbines, the most recent incarnation being Bombardier's JetTrain.

Several films have been declared ineligible by the Academy for the latter reason, the most recent of which is Lust, Caution ( 2007 ), Taiwan's entry for the 80th Academy Awards.

Several South Island nationalist groups have emerged over recent years including the South Island Party with a pro-South agenda, fielded candidates in the 1999 General Election.

Several of the Jamison Valley tracks including the Stairway itself were closed in recent years due to maintenance, but most have since been re-opened.

Several naked eye novae have been recorded, Nova Cygni 1975 being the brightest in the recent history, reaching 2nd magnitude.

Several proposals to build tidal harnesses for electrical power generation have been put forward in recent decades.

Several studies have been conducted in recent years to investigate what, if any, role static magnetic fields may play in health and healing.

Several recent additions, such as Argos, Lidl and Peacocks, are located in new retail spaces on the site of Pratt's but in common with other outer London high streets, retail recovery has been slow, and a substantial proportion of vacant space has been taken by a growing number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops.

Several other shopping centers dot the landscape of Oxford with the most recent being the construction of the Oxford Exchange, which is just off exit 188 on Interstate 20.

Several additions have been built since then, the most recent opening in 1994.

Several other amendments have been adopted since 1814, the most recent on February 20, 2006.

Several later eruptions occurred over the millennia before the most recent major eruption, which is traditionally dated as about 180 CE from Greenland ice-core records.

Several of the community's hills and ridges — such as the properties along Laurel Ridge Drive and Fredericksburg Drive — also have been developed in recent decades.

Several accidents have reportedly been caused by discharging firearms into the air ; although the evidence in a few such cases has been disputed, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 43 likely cases of injury from falling bullets during 2004 New Year celebrations in Puerto Rico.

Several animal rights organizations keep records of accidents and incidents of possible animal abuse.

Several animal rights organizations keep records of accidents and incidents of possible animal abuse.

Several plans to murder him were frustrated by the merest accidents.

Several fatal accidents have occurred on and near Guam over the years.

Several major mining accidents have happened in Poland, including the 1880 explosion at the Renard coal mine in Sosnowiec in which 200 miners were killed.

Several major mining accidents have happened in Russia, particularly the Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster of 2007, which killed at least 106 miners.

Several accidents at train stations and railroad yards occurred because the driver failed to stop at a red signal and ATB didn't intervene, as it had already enforced a speed below 40 km / h.

Several studies funded by insurance trade groups which study traffic safety, have found the cameras had a dramatic effect and reduced accidents by as much as 30 percent.

Several were lost in accidents, and those that did see action proved to be inferior in firepower and armour to the armoured fighting vehicles of the German forces.

Several accidents have occurred, for example at Loscoe, England in 1986, where migrating landfill gas, which was allowed to build up, partially destroyed the property.

Several dangerous accidents happen, with monster trucks without drivers going on rampage, tires coming off, and hot rods going up in flames.

Several major accidents and fires over the years were blamed on the low level of experience by several of the drivers, and the older equipment used.

Several accidents prompted the state to eliminate tolls along the turnpike altogether.

Several accidents per year occur on the section of the A3 dual carriage way that runs by the Burpham junction being a London and M25 south-west approach.

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

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: