Some cultures associate divinity with whales, such as among Ghanaians and Vietnamese, who occasionally hold funerals for beached whales, a throwback to Vietnam's ancient sea-based Austro-Asiatic culture.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Some ancient writers viewed Atlantis as fiction while others believed it was real.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Some extinct members of the crocodilian line, a sister group to the dinosaurs and birds, also evolved bipedal forms-a crocodile relative from the triassic, Effigia okeeffeae, is believed to be bipedal.

Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

Some people believed that the Spanish style one piece neck / block and glued dovetail necks have better sustain, but testing has failed to confirm this.

" Some minor repairs were done to the section believed to be the tomb of Jesus almost immediately after 1009, but a true attempt at restoration would have to wait for decades.

Some in the West believed the Dalai Lama to be worshipped by the Tibetans as the godhead.

Some deists rejected miracles and prophecies but still considered themselves Christians because they believed in what they felt to be the pure, original form of Christianitythat is, Christianity as it existed before it was corrupted by additions of such superstitions as miracles, prophecies, and the doctrine of the Trinity.

Some, such as Benjamin Franklin, believed in reincarnation or resurrection.

Some people believed the end of the Axumite Kingdom is as much of a mystery as its beginning.

Some historians have called her lucky ; she believed that God was protecting her.

Some believed that the ice-storm in January 1998, which devastated parts of Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec, was caused or accentuated by El Niño's warming effects.

Some belief systems contain universalism, the belief that everyone will go to heaven eventually, no matter what they have done or believed on earth.

Some cultures believed honey had many practical health uses.

Some even believed that he was Asclepius himself.

Some of his most famous works are believed to be painted at the house and gardens of Capt.

Some modern writers describe Justus as one of the original missionaries who arrived with Augustine in 597, but Bede believed that Justus came in the second group.

Some believe the name came from an island off the Greek coast, where it is believed that the mythical Icarus was buried, which resembled Failaka.

Some claim that his confession was made to avoid the death penalty, but, according to at least one of his interrogators, he mistakenly believed that he would be allowed back to work at Harwell.

Some 10 % to 35 % of the pieces are believed to come from Jewish spoliations and until the identification of their rightful owners, which declined at the end of the 1960s, they are registered indefinitely on separate inventories from the museum's collections.

Some considered blacks physically and mentally inferior to whites, and others believed that the racism and societal polarization resulting from slavery were insurmountable obstacles for integration of the races.

Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives.

Some scientists believed humans would be unable to survive the launch or the conditions of outer space, so engineers viewed flights by animals as a necessary precursor to human missions.

Some of the Aztec stories about Moctezuma describe him as being fearful of the Spanish newcomers, and some sources, such as the Florentine codex, comment that the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods and Cortés to be the returned god Quetzalcoatl.

Some scholars believe that the picture of Jerusalem which Zephaniah gives indicates that he was active prior to the religious reforms of King Josiah which are described in 2 Kings 23.

Some of the methods and reforms have gained permanent advocates, and are widely utilized.

Some reforms toward more equal marketplace have been made in 2007-2008.

Some of those rates were legally recognized in 1990 when President Callejas introduced a major series of economic policy reforms, which included reducing the maximum import tariff rate from 90 percent to 40 percent and getting rid of most surcharges and exemptions.

Some of the reforms that were actually put in place, such as the abolition of the traditional Muslim veil for women and the opening of a number of co-educational schools, quickly alienated many tribal and religious leaders.

Some outside observers have suggested that Kim Jong-il himself favored such reforms but that some parts of the party and the military resist any changes that might threaten stability.

Some of these reforms were continued by his successors.

Some hold that the Revolution ' cleansed ' China from superstitions, religious dogma, and outdated traditions in a ' modernist transformation ' that later made Deng's economic reforms possible.

) Some British citizens, such as William Digby, agitated for policy reforms and famine relief, but Lord Lytton, the governing British viceroy in India, opposed such changes in the belief that they would stimulate shirking by Indian workers.

Some short term consequences of his reforms are considered at the end of the section.

Some Russian people are Old Believers: a relatively small schismatic group of the Russian Orthodoxy that rejected the liturgical reforms introduced in the 17th century.

Some republicans propose an executive presidency, a semi-presidential system, a federal council or other constitutional reforms, such as citizen-initiated referenda.

Some of Uthman's notable achievements were the economic reforms he introduced, and the compilation of the Qur ' an into the unified, authoritative text that is known today.

Some reforms of agriculture even worsened the problems.

Some of their most prominent reforms are trust-busting ( the destruction and banning of monopolies ), the creation of laws protecting the American consumer, the creation of a federal income tax ( by the Sixteenth Amendment ; the income tax used a progressive tax structure with especially high taxes on the wealthy ), the establishment of the Federal Reserve, and the institution of shorter working hours, higher wages, better living conditions, better rights and privileges to trade unions, protection of rights of strikers, banning of unfair labor practices, and the delivery of more social services to the working classes and social safety nets to many unemployed workers, thus helping to facilitate the creation of a welfare state in the United States and eventually in most developed countries.

Some supporters criticized him for appearing weak by not assuming the presidency and failing to pass immediate reforms, but Madero established a liberal democracy and received support from the United States and popular leaders such as Orozco, Villa and Zapata.

Some of them argue that, unlike earlier reforms, the revision of 1969-1970 which replaced the Tridentine Mass with the Mass of Pope Paul VI represented a major break with the past.

Some significant reforms were proposed ; in 1829, for example, Lord Lyndhurst proposed unsuccessfully that the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer be merged with the Chancery, and that a fourth judge be appointed to hear the additional cases.

Some further procedural reforms were undertaken in the 1850s.

Some of the finance reforms included paying cash for labor in place of corvee labor, increase the supply of copper coins, improve management of trade, direct government loan to farmers during planting seasons and to be repaid at harvest.

Some considered pension reforms proposed by him to embattle the consequences of an aging population as a reason for this decline in popularity.

Some of the reforms, especially the elimination of caste status, reduced the Saint Thomas Christians ' standing with their socially stratified Hindu neighbors.

Some of the more ambitious elements of the reforms ( such as a lowering of the " top tax " rate ) had to be changed or greatly reduced in order to receive the necessary support from the more tax friendly Danish People's Party.

Some of Kang's students were also given minor but strategic posts in the capital to assist with the reforms.