Some scholars have hypothesized an original Proto-Indo-European pantheon, with the chief male god ( Di -) represented by the sky and thunder, and the chief female god ( feminine form of Di -) represented as the earth or fertile soil.

Some religions ascribe a special status to the female breast, either in formal teachings or through symbolism.

Some people show a sexual interest in female breasts distinct from that of the person, which may be regarded as a breast fetish.

Some of the common associations with yang and yin, respectively, are: male and female, light and dark, active and passive, motion and stillness.

Some adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing: blond ( male ) and blonde ( female ) or a bonie lad as compared to a bonnie lass.

Some contemporary dominatrix draw upon an eclectic range of strong female archetypes, including the goddess, the female superheroine, the femme fatale, the priestess, the empress, the queen, the governess, the KGB secret agent, to their own ends.

Some spiders, such as some Synema species, members of the Thomisidae ( crab spiders ) mate while the female is still callow, during which time she is unable to eat the male.

Some species are parthenogenic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male.

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

Some speculated that Ashcroft felt reporters were photographing him with the female statue in the background to make fun of his church's opposition to pornography.

Some Taoist records claim Guanyin was a Chinese female who became an immortal during the Shang Dynasty.

Some Buddhist schools refer to Guanyin both as male and female interchangeably.

Some prominent female mathematicians are Hypatia of Alexandria ( ca.

Some alchemists, impressed by this idea, speculated on the culture of the mandragore, and experimented in the artificial reproduction of a soil sufficiently fruitful and a sun sufficiently active to humanise the said root, and thus create men without the concurrence of the female.

Some species of wasp, to complete the reproductive cycle, the female wasp paralyses a prey item such as a grasshopper and places it in her nest.

Some manuscripts of it contain a brief mention of a female Pope named Joanna ( the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name ), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work.

Some well-known female US vocal quartets include The Carter Sisters ; The Forester Sisters ; The Chiffons ; The Chordettes ; The Lennon Sisters ; and En Vogue.

Some female skinheads have a shorter punk-style version of the hairstyle ; almost entirely shaved, leaving only bangs and fringes at the front.

Some say he was transgender, and one ancient text states that he offered half the empire to the physician who could give him female genitalia.

Some works depict female satyrs with their children ; others describe the child satyrs as playing an active role in the events, including one instance of a painting by Jean Raoux ( 1677 – 1735 ).

Some species are ovoviviparous, with the female retaining the eggs inside her body until they hatch.

Some feminist writers have criticized the film for portraying Barbra, the chief female character, as catatonic and helpless.

Some scholars believe that the statue may not have been Tlaloc at all but his sister or some other female deity.

Some authors have speculated that Ælle may have led the Saxon forces at this battle, while others reject the idea out of hand.

Some authors, however, consider alkaloids a special case of amines.

Some authors classify as pseudoalkaloids such compounds such as ephedrine and cathinone.

Some authors see a centralized peer – review process as less relevant and publish on their home pages or on unreviewed sites like arXiv.

Some authors also define an alkali as a base that dissolves in water.

Some sources include the requirement that the curve may not cross the line infinitely often, but this is unusual for modern authors.

Some authors even argue that the language moved westward during Late Antiquity, after the fall of Rome, into the north part of Hispania in which Basque is spoken today.

Some authors require in addition that μ ( C ) < ∞ for every compact set C. If a Borel measure μ is both inner regular and outer regular, it is called a regular Borel measure.

Some authors use the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 and state Bernoulli's formula in this way:

Some authors deviate from the definition just given by identifying each object with its identity morphism.

Some authors have claimed this to be untrue, showing that the pollutant and irritant count within cars is consistently higher, ( presumably because of limited circulation of air within the car and due to the air intake being directly in the stream of other traffic ).

Some authors use countable set to mean a set with the same cardinality as the set of natural numbers.

As noted above, this terminology is not universal: Some authors use countable to mean what is here called " countably infinite ," and to not include finite sets.

Some authors, however, write about water clocks appearing as early as 4000 BC in these regions of the world.

Some authors take a different perspective.

Some authors have used " basal " differently to mean a clade that is " more primitive " or less species-rich than its sister clade ; others consider this usage to be incorrect, and many now discourage the use of that term altogether to avoid such implications.

Some authors of technical documents may prefer either mouse devices or the more generic pointing devices.

Some scholars feel that in addition to its spiritual components, portions of the text merely reflect the human authors ' beliefs and feelings about God at the time of its writing, and their cultural sensibilities.

Some authors have not succeeded in adapting to the changes brought about by modern technology ; others, such as Carl Hiaasen, have.

Some Western scholars have expressed doubts over Laozi's historical existence, claiming that the Tao Te Ching is actually a collection of the work of various authors.

Some 19th-century authors connected this word with ‘ mad, crazy ’, and erroneously compared the Turkish word with and ( cf.

Some authors use " compatible with ~" or just " respects ~" instead of " invariant under ~".

Some authors use " compatible with " or just " respects " instead of " invariant under ".

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 authors use, or Cpq, instead of, and, or Epq, instead of, especially in contexts where is used for other purposes.