Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.

Some websites and tools exist which provide a phonetic guide for Japanese web pages ( in hiragana, romaji or kiriji ); these are popular with both Japanese children and foreign Japanese learners.

Some companies in the U. S. mainland still treat Guam as a foreign country and refuse to sell and ship items to Guam.

Some English government officials felt that Louis Bonaparte was seeking foreign adventure in the spirit of his uncle — Napoleon I. Consequently, these officials felt that any close association with Louis Bonaparte would eventually lead Britain into another series of wars, like the wars with France and Napoleon dating from 1793 until 1815.

Some of the surgical cures listed, such as the opening of an abdominal abscess or the removal of traumatic foreign material, are realistic enough to have taken place, but with the patient in a state of enkoimesis induced with the help of soporific substances such as opium.

Some restrictions preclude the South African market from following international trends, the local is restricted to local investment opportunities in terms of exchange control, the lack of regulated structures restricts the amount of exposure which the South African retirement fund industry has to hedge fund strategies and foreign investors are put off investing directly into South African hedge funds by adverse taxes and other obstacles.

Some foreign analysts have pointed to widespread starvation, increased emigration through North Korea-China border, and new sources of information about the outside world for ordinary North Koreans as factors pointing to an imminent collapse of the regime, but North Korea has remained stable in spite of more than a decade of such predictions.

Some administrations ( e. g. Hong Kong ) outlaw formal linkages between local and foreign political organizations, effectively outlawing international political parties.

Some foreign expatriates are staying in Shanghai as long-term settlers, renewing Shanghai's reputation as China's global city.

Some were native Romans, others were foreign.

Some questioned whether the country was overstretched, and in 1905 the British foreign minister said that the " empire resembles a huge, gouty giant with its fingers and toes extended all over the globe, which cannot be approached without eliciting a scream.

Some ni-Vanuatu are involved in fishing, along with foreign fleets.

Some of these letters are still in use today for writing foreign names.

Some scholars have seen no revival of Dál Riata after the long period of foreign domination ( after 637 to around 750 or 760 ), while others have seen a revival of Dál Riata under Áed Find ( 736-778 ), and later Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín, who is claimed in some sources to have taken the kingship there in c. 840 following the disastrous defeat of the Pictish army by the Danes ): some even claim that the kingship of Fortriu was usurped by the Dál Riata several generations before MacAlpin ( 800-858 ).

Some of the surgical cures listed, such as the opening of an abdominal abscess or the removal of traumatic foreign material, are realistic enough to have taken place, but with the patient in a state of enkoimesis induced with the help of soporific substances such as opium.

Some schools in the cities, especially those professing affiliation to foreign educational boards, do not have any uniforms.

Some abstractions are designed to interoperate with others, for example a programming language may contain a foreign function interface for making calls to the lower-level language.

Some structured bonds can have a redemption amount which is different from the face amount and can be linked to performance of particular assets such as a stock or commodity index, foreign exchange rate or a fund.

Some composers attempted to create a Polish opera ( such as Jan Stefani and Maciej Kamieński ), others imitated foreign composers such as Haydn and Mozart.

Some nations have moved to limit foreign ownership of cropland in order to ensure that food is available for local consumption while others have sold food land and depend on the World Food Programme.

Some films depicted the part of peoples of the Soviet Union against foreign invaders: " Alexander Nevsky " by Eisenstein, " Minin and Pozharsky " by Pudvokin, and " Bogdan Khmelnitsky " by Savchenko.

Some use the term patli ( thin ) saunf or velayati ( foreign ) saunf to distinguish anise from fennel, although Gujarati has the term anisi.

Some city-states, notably Athens, evoked her as a protector but her most celebrated Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess, who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following.

) Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: " Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Some take the approach of looking for coherent justifications of established copyright systems, while others start with general ethical theories, such as utilitarianism and try to analyse policy through that lens.

Some libraries that employ content-control software allow the software to be deactivated on a case-by-case basis on application to a librarian ; libraries that are subject to CIPA are required to have a policy that allows adults to request that the filter be disabled without having to explain the reason for their request.

Some called for a maximum of two term-periods in each party body, including the Central Committee, others supported Nikita Khrushchev's policy of compulsory turnover rules, which had been ended by the Brezhnev leadership.

Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine killing millions of people.

Some Distributists claim that the rhetorical marketing of this policy was influenced by aphorisms of the Distributist ideology and promotes Distributism.

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 have attempted to argue that ICANN was never given the authority to decide policy, e. g., choose new TLDs or shut out other interested parties who refuse to pay ICANN's US $ 185, 000 fee, but was to be a technical caretaker.

Some commentators compared the Major Government's policy to ' amoral equivalency ' because it appeared to judge the Bosnian Government and the Bosnian Serbs equally culpable.

Some critics of Stalin's policy, such as the popular writer Viktor Suvorov, claim that Stalin's primary motive for signing the Soviet – German non-aggression treaty was his calculation that such a pact could result in a conflict between the capitalist countries of Western Europe.

Some " modernization theories " of nationalism see the national identity largely as a product of government policy to unify and modernize an already existing state.

Some of the more stringent policy enforcement measures can pose a risk of alienating users, possibly decreasing security as a result.

Some critics of the divestment policy accused church leaders of anti-Semitism.

Some senior German policy makers went as far as to say that emergency bailouts should include harsh penalties to EU aid recipients such as Greece.

Some political scientists thus prefer to speak of policy networks and decentralized governance in modern societies rather than of state bureaucracies and direct state control over policy.

Some historians and writers ( like German Dietrich Schwanitz ) draw parallels between Stalinism and the economic policy of Tsar Peter the Great, although Schwanitz in particular views Stalin as " a monstrous reincarnation " of him.

Some areas including London are exempt from this policy, but are covered instead by the London Towpath Code of Conduct.

Some of the duties Gladstone intended to abolish in 1860 were the duties on paper, a controversial policy because the duties had traditionally inflated the costs of publishing and thus hindered the dissemination of radical working class ideas.

Some hold the view that this contributed to the severity and length of the Great Depression as the gold standard forced the central banks to keep monetary policy too tight, creating deflation.

Some of the information carried that is explicitly intended to be used in policy decisions are communities and multi-exit discriminators ( MED ).

Some have argued that 1997-1998 represented a monetary policy bind, just as the early 1970s had represented a fiscal policy bind, and that while asset inflation had crept into the United States ( which demanded that the Fed tighten the money supply ), the Federal Reserve needed to ease liquidity in response to the capital flight from Asia.

Some characters have viewed the Prime Directive as a negative policy, because it prevents introduction of technology ( especially medical technology ), culture, and resources that may improve quality of life.

Some settings have policy guidelines ( e. g. the Criminal Justice System ) that require registered MRSLI status or, ' the yellow badge ' before a sign language interpreter can work in those settings.