Some researchers state that the evidence-based approach to defining CAM is problematic because some CAM is tested, and research suggests that many mainstream medical techniques lack solid evidence.

Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

Some authors also require the domain of the Euclidean function be the entire ring R ; this can always be accommodated by adding 1 to the values at all nonzero elements, and defining the function to be 0 at the zero element of R, but the result is somewhat awkward in the case of K. The definition is sometimes generalized by allowing the Euclidean function to take its values in any well-ordered set ; this weakening does not affect the most important implications of the Euclidean property.

Some scholars make sharp distinctions between moral or ethical usage of the word Dao that is prominent in Confucianism and religious Daoism and the more metaphysical usage of the term used in philosophical Daoism and most forms of Mahayana Buddhism ; others maintain that these are not separate usages or meanings, seeing them as mutually inclusive and compatible approaches to defining the concept.

Some analysts believe this cleavage played out politically since the time of the Vietnam War to the mid-2000s, to some extent defining the political landscape and division in the country.

Some manufacturers avoid this problem by explicitly and completely defining the execution order of a rung, however programmers may still have problems fully grasping the resulting complex semantics.

Some of Tinia's defining epithets are detailed on the Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a liver used for haruspicy.

Some post-punk performers developed styles parallel to industrial music's defining attributes.

Some acts may be prohibited under criminal laws defining the offense of " sodomy ", rather than the laws defining the offense of " fornication.

Some individual cities also enact their own financial regulation laws ( for example, defining what constitutes usurious lending ).

Some groups arguing that exploitation is inherent in the act of commercial sex, while other groups take a stricter approach to defining sexual slavery, considering an element of force, fraud or coercion to be necessary for sex slavery to exist.

Some service managers use the term " moment of truth " to indicate that defining point in a specific service encounter where interactions are most intense.

Some countries like the United States have avoided the common law conclusion in Regina v. Dugdale by legally defining possession as a voluntary act.

Some authors bring forward different meanings of comorbidity and multi-morbidity, defining the former, as the presence of a number of diseases in a patient, connected to each other through proven pathogenetic mechanisms and the latter, as the presence of a number of diseases in a patient, not having any connection to each other through any of the proven till date pathogenetic mechanisms.

Some authors, including Abramowitz and Stegun, ( eqs 7. 3. 1 – 7. 3. 2 ) use for the argument of the integrals defining S ( x ) and C ( x ).

Some scholars assert that the Nuremberg Trials following World War II were based on ex post facto law, because the Allies did not negotiate the London Charter, defining crimes against humanity and creating the International Military Tribunal, until well after the acts charged.

Some models were not equipped with turrets ( and together with the tracked mobility, this is often seen as defining for the concept ), or just a very simple one that was traversed by hand or leg.

Some ISPs however use the term more loosely, defining a leased line as “ any dedicated bandwidth service delivered over a leased fibre connection ".

Some linguists distinguish this from kenjōgo ( where the speaker is the agent ), calling it instead teichōgo ( 丁重語 ) " courteous language ", and defining it formally as:

* Some critics require a novel to have a certain length, and so exclude Oroonoko, defining it instead as a novella.

Some sources consider transwomen who have sex with men to be MSM, others consider transwomen " alongside " MSM, and others are internally inconsistent ( defining transgender women to be MSM in one place but referring to " MSM and transgender " in another ).

Some institutionalists see Karl Marx as belonging to the institutionalist tradition, because he described capitalism as a historically-bounded social system ; other institutionalist economists disagree with Marx's definition of capitalism, instead seeing defining features such as markets, money and the private ownership of production as indeed evolving over time, but as a result of the purposive actions of individuals.

Some work has been directed at better defining professional service firms.

Some people who cross-dress may endeavor to project a complete impression of belonging to another gender, down to mannerisms, speech patterns, and emulation of sexual characteristics.

Some definitions focus on the question of the probability of encountering a given condition of a system once characteristics of the system are specified.

Some of the more important characteristics are listed below:

Some of the characteristics of a presidential system ( i. e., a strong dominant political figure with an executive answerable to them, not the legislature ) can also be found among absolute monarchies, parliamentary monarchies and single party ( e. g. Communist ) regimes, but in most cases of dictatorship, their stated constitutional models are applied in name only and not in political theory or practice.

Some typical characteristics of high fantasy include fantastical elements such as elves, fairies, dwarves, dragons, demons, magic or sorcery, wizards or magicians, constructed languages, quests, coming-of-age themes, and multi-volume narratives.

Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness.

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

Some characteristics of pathological science are:

Some common transfer function families and their particular characteristics are:

Some regional accents are easily identified by certain characteristics.

Some characteristics of the Ulster accent include:

Some of the earliest settlements in the US, though they no longer exist in any tangible sense, once had the characteristics of a ghost town.

Some have diverged from the mainstream of the genus to the extent that they are quite isolated genetically and are able to be recognised by only a few relatively invariant characteristics.

Some ancestral characteristics degenerated due to the feeding change.

Some characteristics, which may not be present in all the scripts, are:

Some deposits have characteristics intermediate between the microbially and thermally sourced types and are considered to be formed from a mixture of the two.

Some characteristics of European French are even judged negatively when imitated by Quebecers.

Some lightning strikes exhibit particular characteristics ; scientists and the general public have given names to these various types of lightning.

Some hunters, however, have reported good expansion characteristics and quick, " humane kills " from hollow-point target bullets.

Some of the morphological characteristics used to classify avalanches include the type of snow involved, the nature of the failure, the sliding surface, the propagation mechanism of the failure, the trigger of the avalanche, the slope angle, slope aspect, and elevation.

Some of the characteristics of a portfolio assessment is that it emphasizes and evidences the learning process as an active demonstration of knowledge.

* Some achievement characteristics are positively correlated with some ascribed characteristics.

Some national variants with rather striking characteristics are the China ( PRC ) and Japan ( TTC ) national variants.

Some Indo-European characteristics seem to have disappeared in Hittite, and other IE language branches had developed different innovations.