Some ancient cultures used lime-based cement for the plaster to protect against rain damage.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as " mid-autumn ", others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn.

Some believe that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cultures of smallpox have become available in other countries.

Some scholars have argued that the calm, orderly, monotheistic creation story in Genesis 1 can be interpreted as a reaction against the creation myths of other Near Eastern cultures.

Some cultures consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare.

Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons.

Some locally developed transitional cultures ( Szletian in Central Europe and Châtelperronian in the Southwest ) use

Some Western cultures have often given priority to civil and political rights, sometimes at the expense of economic and social rights such as the right to work, to education, health and housing.

Some cultures believed honey had many practical health uses.

Some people have drawn analogies between certain aspects of hypnotism and areas such as crowd psychology, religious hysteria, and ritual trances in preliterate tribal cultures.

Some cultures include relatives by marriage in incest prohibitions ; these relationships are called affinity rather than consanguinity.

Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession only passing property along the female line.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Some martial arts in various cultures can be performed in dance-like settings for various reasons, such as for evoking ferocity in preparation for battle or showing off skill in a more stylized manner.

Some cultures, historically or currently, continue to use breast milk to feed their children until they are seven years old.

Masurians showed considerable support for the Polish uprising in 1831, and maintained many contacts with Russian-held areas of Poland beyond the border of Prussia, the areas being connected by common culture and language ; before the uprising people visited each other's country fairs and much trade took placw, with smuggling also widespread Some early writers about Masurians-like Max Toeppen-postulated them as mediators between German and Slav cultures.

* Some authors use the term " Epipaleolithic " for those cultures that are late developments of hunter-gatherer traditions but not in transition toward agriculture, reserving the term " Mesolithic " for those cultures, like the Natufian culture, that are transitional between hunter-gatherer and agricultural practices.

Some cultures regarded the mediator as a sacred figure, worthy of particular respect ; and the role partly overlapped with that of traditional wise men or tribal chief.

Some include the classical Mesoamerican cultures, still in use today in the modern indigenous languages of their descendants, namely the Nahuatl and Mayan languages ( see Maya numerals ).

Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes.

Some rhyming schemes have become associated with a specific language, culture or period, while other rhyming schemes have achieved use across languages, cultures or time periods.

Some individuals in all cultures have significantly higher than normal pain perception and tolerance thresholds.

Some researchers such as John A Lucy, Barbara Saunders and Stephen C Levinson have argued that Berlin and Kay's study does not in fact show that linguistic relativity in color naming is impossible, because of a number of basic unsupported assumptions in their study ( such as whether all cultures in fact have a category of " color " that can be unproblematically defined and equated with the one found in Indo-European languages ) and because of problems with their data stemming from those basic assumptions.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

Some of the earlier episodes have touches of the supernatural, as suited to the legendary background.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some of these thoughts -- not all of them -- have taken organized form in later years.

He said, `` Some have criticized your book as being neither literary criticism nor history.

Some have felt that Washington Irving comes out rather slimly, but let them look at the title of the book ''.

Some of us have imagination and sensibility too.

Some of former President Truman's off-the-cuff discourses have been in that vein.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

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

Some families already have held weekend rehearsals in their home shelters to learn the problems and to determine for themselves what supplies they would need.

Some special health requirements might have to be met.

Some weapons systems have become obsolescent while still in production, and some while still under development.

Some offices have very broad responsibilities, touching on almost all aspects of a university's instructional program.

Some manufacturers have had the foresight to provide a socket for the chuck key ; ;

Some recreation features, such as scenic values and water interest, also have greater overall value than other interests.

-- Some areas may already have been improved and contain buildings, roads, utilities, cleared land, etcetera which may raise the cost of the site.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

Some men have no talent for or interest in management ; ;

Some agents have been shown to be much more toxic or infectious to experimental animals when exposed to aerosols of optimum particle size than by the natural portal.

Some of those who question the value of BW have assumed that the only potential would be in the establishment of epidemics.

Some members of the bee family have become idlers, social parasites that live at the expense of their hardworking relatives.

Some investigators have found a parallelism between remissions and return of the sympathetic reactivity of the hypothalamus to the normal level as indicated by the Mecholyl test and, conversely, between clinical impairment and increasing deviation of this test from the norm.

Some of the oldest, most persistent, and most cohesive forms of social groupings have grown out of religion.