Some city-states from ancient Greece were oligarchies.

Some cities — though also members of different confederacies at that time — officially became sovereign city-states in the 19th century — such as the Canton of Basel City ( 1833 – 48 ), the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( 1806 – 11 and again 1813 – 71 ), the Free City of Frankfurt upon Main ( 1815 – 66 ), the Canton of Geneva ( 1813 – 48 ), the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( 1806 – 11 and again 1814 – 71 ) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck ( 1806 – 11 and again 1813 – 71 ).

Some cities or urban areas, while not sovereign states, may nevertheless enjoy such a high degree of autonomy that they function as " city-states " within the context of the sovereign state that they belong to.

Some Italian city-states became great military powers very early on.

Some became wealthy, and many, including Florence, Genoa, Milan, Pisa, Siena and Venice, grew into nearly independent city-states.

Some of the earliest Greek mints were within city-states on Greek islands such as Crete ; a mint existed at the ancient city of Cydonia on Crete at least as early as the fifth century BC.

Some cities even managed to develop into city-states.

Some memorable plays have been drawn from books, notably Life With Father and Diary Of Anne Frank.

Some activists, notably David Graeber, see the movement as opposed instead to neoliberalism or " corporate globalization ".

Some writers trace the process to the medieval mode of trial by combat, in which some litigants, notably women, were allowed a champion to represent them.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin.

Some writing systems of the world, notably the Arabic and Hebrew scripts, and derived systems such as the Urdu, Persian, Yiddish, Jawi, and Ladino scripts, are written in a form known as right-to-left ( RTL ), in which writing begins at the right-hand side of a page and concludes at the left-hand side.

Some of these elements, notably thorium ( atomic number 90 ) and uranium ( atomic number 92 ), have one or more isotopes with half-lives long enough to survive as remnants of the explosive stellar nucleosynthesis that produced the heavy elements before the formation of our solar system.

Some of these elements, notably thorium ( atomic number 90 ) and uranium ( atomic number 92 ), have one or more isotopes with half-lives long enough to survive as remnants of the explosive stellar nucleosynthesis that produced the heavy elements before the formation of our Solar System.

Some consequentialists — most notably Peter Railton — have attempted to develop a form of consequentialism that acknowledges and avoids the objections raised by Williams.

Some traditions, notably the Seventh Day Adventists, teach that the soul sleeps after death, and will not awake again until the Resurrection, while others believe the spirit goes to an intermediate place where we will live consciously until the Resurrection.

Some metals ( notably aluminium and copper ) are seldom or never deposited by CVD.

Some flee Chapterhouse, notably Sheeana, who has a vision of her own, and is joined by Duncan.

Some critics, among them William Veeder, suggest that Carmilla, notably in its outlandish use of narrative frames, was an important influence on Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw.

Some parts of DEC, notably the compiler business and the Hudson, Massachusetts facility, were sold to Intel.

Some individuals, notably Joseph Stalin, have stated that all problems emanate from man, and absent man, no problems ensue.

Some delegations within the group, notably the United Kingdom Independence Party, also advocate the complete withdrawal of their country from the EU whilst others only wish to limit further European integration.

Some canned foods, notably soups or packaged broths, tend to be high in salt as a means of preserving the food longer.

Some chemists, notably Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, heavily criticized the use of structural formulas that were offered, as he thought, without proof.

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer, but all hostility was rendered futile by the enthusiasm that greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer's wife, took a leading part.

Some Wiccans believe there are many goddesses, and in some forms of Wicca, notably Dianic Wicca, the Goddess alone is worshipped, and the God plays very little part in their worship and ritual.

Some commercial cartridges ( notably Sellier & Bellot ) use large rifle primers that are thinner than the SAAMI standards common in the United States, and will not permit seating a Boxer primer manufactured to U. S. standards ; the use of a primer pocket uniformer tool on such brass avoids setting Boxer primers high when reloading, which would be a safety issue.

Some insurance industry insiders, most notably Hank Greenberg, do not believe that it is forever possible to sustain a profit from float without an underwriting profit as well, but this opinion is not universally held.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Some manufacturers, notably in South Korea where some of the largest LCD panel manufacturers, such as LG, are located, now have " zero defective pixel guarantee ", which is an extra screening process which can then determine " A " and " B " grade panels.

Some family delimitations have changed as well, most notably, the segregation of Calophyllaceae from Clusiaceae sensu lato when it was shown that the latter is paraphyletic.

Some are found in Megara, Athens, Chaeronea, Chalcis, Thessaly at Skotousa, in Cynoscephalae and statues of Amazons are all over Greece.

Some of the financial accounts for the Parthenon survive and show that the largest single expense was transporting the stone from Mount Pentelicus, about 16 kilometres from Athens, to the Acropolis.

* 403 BC: Some exiled Athenians return to fight the Thirty Tyrants and restore democracy in Athens.

* Some of the northern Greek cities, including Athens, revolt against the Macedonian regent, Antipater, following the news of Alexander's death.

Some commentators have claimed that Western civilization can be almost defined by its serious testing of the limits of tension between " unaided " reason and faith in " revealed " truths — figuratively summarized as Athens and Jerusalem, respectively.

Some of the athletes would take part in the Games because they happened to be in Athens at the time the Games were held, either on holiday or for work ( e. g., some of the British competitors worked for the British embassy ).

Some Greek officials considered Revolutionary Struggle ( EA ), the group that fired a Chinese-made RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade at the U. S. Embassy in Athens in January 2007, to be a spin-off of 17N.

Some of Athens ' greatest such schools included the Lyceum ( the so-called Peripatetic school founded by Aristotle of Stageira ) and the Platonic Academy ( founded by Plato of Athens ).

Some 5th century torsos of Athena have been found at Athens.

Some modern scholars have found in the surviving poetry evidence that Ibycus might have spent time at Sicyon before journeying to Samos — mythological references indicate local knowledge of Sicyon and could even point to the town's alliance with Sparta against Argos and Athens.

Some scholars, drawing on the discovery of defaced coins from Sinope dating from the period 350-340 BCE, believe that Diogenes only moved to Athens after the death of Antisthenes, and it has been argued that the stories linking Antisthenes to Diogenes were invented by the Stoics in a later period in order to provide a succession linking Socrates to Zeno, via Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Crates.

Some local residents commute to work in industry in Logan, Ohio, or to jobs in Athens, Ohio.

Some modern scholars believe that Tyrtaeus helped to precipitate and formulate this transition but others see no real evidence for this and some even question the authenticity of his few surviving verses — an origin in fifth or fourth century Athens has sometimes been suggested.

Some claim that Isocrates was merely making an appeal to unite all Hellenes under the hegemony of Athens ( whose culture is implied under the words " our common culture ") in a crusade against the Persians rather than their customary fighting against each other.

Some years later, Hippias had attempted to regain power in Athens, assisted by the Spartans.

Some historical sources suggest the end of hostilities was marked by a peace treaty between Athens and Persia, the so-called Peace of Callias.

Some games, e. g. the Panathenaia of Athens, included musical, reading and other non-athletic contests in addition to regular sports events.

Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias, The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens.

Some classicists suggest that the fact that he only won a single prize was due to his non-Athenian birth, as the men of Athens were loath to honor any but their own fellow-citizens.

Some cities, such as Athens and Sparta, even retained their self-governing status within their own territories.

Some have suggested that the peacock was introduced into Europe by Alexander the Great, while others suggest that the bird had reached Athens by 450 BC and may have been introduced even earlier.

Some cities might be subordinate to others ( a colony traditionally deferred to its mother city ), some might have had governments wholly dependent upon others ( the Thirty Tyrants in Athens was imposed by Sparta following the Peloponnesian War ), but the titularly supreme power in each city was located within that city.