Several historically attested religions emphasize secret or hidden knowledge, and are thus esoteric in the dictionary sense, without necessarily being esoteric movements in the scholarly sense of the word.

Several secret U. S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip.

Several secret societies in Shandong predated the Boxers.

Several rounds of Paris Peace Talks ( some public, some secret ) were held between 1969 and 1973.

Several TPVs were buried at secret locations ; one was disguised as a pickup, the others were destroyed, and Boulanger had the next six years to think about further improvements.

Several state police and secret police organizations enforced communist party rule, including:

Several meetings of the secret services of a number of countries ensued with the aim of identifying Topas, who took part in some of those meetings.

Several human secret organizations know of the existence of the Nephilim.

Several secret sharing schemes are said to be information theoretically secure and can be proved to be so, while others give up this unconditional security for improved efficiency while maintaining enough security to be considered as secure as other common cryptographic primitives.

Several months after her discovery, Sydney is once again estranged from her father, having discovered ( through the secret documents ) that he had killed Irina Derevko.

Several acts of law regulate the freedoms granted by Article 10, such as the Official Secrets Act, which makes it a crime to disseminate information classified as an official secret.

Several Moroccan Army personnel suspected of being implicated in the 1970s coups against the King were held in secret detention camps such as Tazmamart, some of them died due to poor conditions or lack of medical treatment.

Several issues of the magazine contained " secret " articles.

Several investigations turned up evidence of old buildings on the site and other debris from before the school was built, but no evidence of any secret chambers was found.

Several others, including priests, nuns and lay people, worked in secret with O ' Flaherty, and even hid refugees in their own private homes around Rome.

Several major leaders among the Red Army commanders, such as Marshal Georgy Zhukov and his loyal officers, had some serious tensions with Stalin's secret service.

* Several secret short videos.

Several sets meant to be used by Captain Action in his Captain Action identity was designed for the character as well: a four foot working parachute, a jet mortar, a jet pack, weapons arsenal, and several other secret weapons to add to the Action Cave, which the special box for the Streak could convert into.

Several principals in the fields of law and psychiatry, amongst them Swedish police professor Leif GW Persson and secret sources in the Swedish police all claim that Quick has a history of mental illness, but is not guilty of many, if any, of the crimes to which he confessed.

Several features of " Judas " tally with Sant Mat teachings: in " Sar Bachan ", most notably, the incipit's " Apophasis Logos " as " Shabd ", or Christian " Word ", and not the consensus " secret account of the revelation " ( introduction, " Sar Bachan "), and the " region never called by any name ", at page 47 in " Judas " as " Anami Desh " ( the " no-name region ", abode of God ) in Sant Mat cosmology ( page 27, " Sar Bachan ").

He attacked Federalists, and Hamilton in particular, and anyone who supported the Neutrality Proclamation as secret monarchists, declaring: " Several features with the signature of Pacificus were of late published, which have been read with singular pleasure and applause by the foreigners and degenerate citizens among us, who hate our republican government and the French Revolution.

Several, such as Rauwiraka, confided to Strehlow their secret knowledge, and even their names, trusting him to conserve the details of all their sacred lore and rites.

Several former members of the church have leaked these secret documents, leading to lengthy court battles with the church.

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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 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 clan societies have been granted coats of arms.

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 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.