Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

Some of them are intended for tiny tablet computers and wireless mobile terminals, many of them are additionally available as apps on Apples iOS devices.

Some instructions were added that were never intended to be used in assembly language but fit well with compiled high level languages.

Some believe it was intended to replace the Doctrine and Covenants, but that due to the controversy that arose this plan was dropped.

Some years after the 1900-1901 publication of his main work, the Logische Untersuchungen ( Logical Investigations ), Husserl made some key conceptual elaborations which led him to assert that in order to study the structure of consciousness, one would have to distinguish between the act of consciousness and the phenomena at which it is directed ( the objects as intended ).

Some estampies, such as the famous Tre fontane (" Three Fountains ") estampie, contain florid and virtuosic instrumental writing, signifying that they may have been intended as abstract performance music rather than actual dance music.

Some complex flag designs are not intended for through and through implementation, requiring separate obverse and reverse sides if made correctly.

Some Egyptologists suggest this Lower Chamber was intended to be the original burial chamber, but Pharaoh Khufu later changed his mind and wanted it to be higher up in the pyramid.

Some products supplied by manufacturers may not be intended to be awarded at all, and are instead just used as part of the gameplay ( such as the low-priced items used in several Pricing Games of The Price Is Right ).

Some methods ( for example, HEAD, GET, OPTIONS and TRACE ) are defined as safe, which means they are intended only for information retrieval and should not change the state of the server.

Some players used to soak wooden-combed harmonicas ( diatonics, without windsavers ) in water to cause a slight expansion, which they intended to make the seal between the comb, reed plates and covers more airtight.

Some Midrash discussions are highly metaphorical, and many Jewish authors stress that they are not intended to be taken literally.

Some of the latest designs ( such as the German Puma ) are intended to allow a light, basic model vehicle which is air-transportable to be fitted in the field with additional protection, thereby ensuring both strategic flexibility and survivability.

Some time after, Cardinal Altieri declared that he had not intended to comprise the ambassadors among those for whom the edict was intended, and that the pope had never contemplated subjecting them to it.

Some Christian denominations would limit that and exclude those who receive a personal message not intended for the body of believers, but in the Bible on a number of occasions prophets were called to deliver personal messages.

Some countries authorize the production of postage stamps that have no postal use, but are intended instead solely for collectors.

Some religions claim to be universal, believing their laws and cosmology to be binding for everyone, while others are intended to be practiced only by a closely defined or localized group.

Some of these RFCs would not be published at all today ; an early RFC was often just that: a simple request for comments, not intended to specify a protocol, administrative procedure, or anything else for which the RFC series is used today.

Some aspects attributed to the first RISC-labeled designs around 1975 include the observations that the memory-restricted compilers of the time were often unable to take advantage of features intended to facilitate manual assembly coding, and that complex addressing modes take many cycles to perform due to the required additional memory accesses.

Some of the early swords typically had small and slender blades intended for thrusting.

Some buyers mistakenly thought the game was intended to depict the year 2300 in the standard Traveller universe using Traveller rules ; to disambiguate it from Traveller, the 2nd edition of the game was retitled to 2300 AD and this second edition introduced some cyberpunk rules and adventures.

Some treaties are intended by the parties to be only temporarily binding and are set to expire on a given date.

Some derivation rules and formal languages are intended to capture mathematical reasoning ; the most common examples use first-order logic.

Some of Clinton's pardons remain a point of controversy.

Some 70 – 95 % of all beetle species, depending on the estimate, remain undescribed.

Some even continue to this day to remain a challenge for mathematicians.

Some anticonvulsant medications do not have primary FDA-approved uses in epilepsy but are used in limited trials, remain in rare use in difficult cases, have limited " grandfather " status, are bound to particular severe epilepsies, or are under current investigation.

Some public monopolies such Alko remain, and are sometimes challenged by the European Union.

Some felonies remain outside the classification system.

Some of the drainage features on Grenada remain from its volcanic past.

Some Greenpeace groups, namely London Greenpeace ( dissolved in 2001 ) and the US-based Greenpeace Foundation ( still operational ) however decided to remain independent from Greenpeace International.

Some of the male lecturers in Oxford are still not happy with women getting degrees ; the number of women in the University is restricted by statute to no more than 25 % ( a restriction which would only be removed in the 1970s ); women are segregated in special women's colleges such as Shrewsbury, while the prestigious historic colleges remain exclusively male ; women's colleges are starved for funds and run on a shoestring.

Some guild traditions still remain in a few handicrafts, in Europe especially among shoemakers and barbers.

Some deacons remain permanently in the diaconate ; many go on to be ordained priests.

Some of these practices remain in areas including the Batak areas of Sumatra, Toraja in Sulawesi, and several islands in Nusa Tenggara.

Some letterboxes however remain " word of mouth " and the clues to their location can only be obtained from the person who placed the box.

Some Vietnamese and Chinese minorities remain, particularly in the towns, but many left in two waves-after independence in the late 1940s and again after 1975.

Some theorists argue that the common language is not homogenizing ; and that there still remain strong differences expressed within the mass media.

Some jurisdictions provide the right of a juvenile to remain silent if their parent or guardian is not present.

Some Jews did not accept the written codification of the oral law at all ; known as Karaites, they comprised a significant portion of the world Jewish population in the 10th and 11th Centuries CE, and remain extant, though they currently number in the thousands.

Some of the writings of Paul, especially in Ephesians, instruct slaves to remain obedient to their masters.

Some characters can seem to " transform " themselves ( or others ) into unliving substances, or even pure energy, by storing their bodies in extradimensional space and replacing them with bodies made from matter or energy from that dimension, while their souls remain on Earth, controlling their new body.

Some long-time independent motels have had to join existing low-end chains to remain viable ; these properties are known as " conversions " and do not use the standardised architecture which once defined many franchise brands.

Some nuclei can capture a number of neutrons and remain relatively stable, not undergoing transmutation or decay for many months or even years.

Some of these products remain on the market and have been joined by new open source and commercial products such as InterSystems Caché.

Some remnants of this situation remain, with the result that, for instance, New Zealand is still in the care of this Congregation.

Some parenchyma cells, as in the epidermis, are specialized for light penetration and focusing or regulation of gas exchange, but others are among the least specialized cells in plant tissue, and may remain totipotent, capable of dividing to produce new populations of undifferentiated cells, throughout their lives.