Some minorities within congregations that joined the PKN decided to leave the church and associated themselves individually with one of the other Reformed churches.

Some proponents of school vouchers, including the Sutherland Institute and many supporters of the Utah voucher effort, see it as a remedy for the negative cultural impact caused by under-performing public schools, which falls disproportionately on demographic minorities.

Some younger activists, seeing " gay and lesbian " as increasingly normative and politically conservative, began using queer as a defiant statement of all sexual minorities and gender variant people — just as the earlier liberationists had done with gay.

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 Poles remained in the previously Polish-ruled territories in the east which were annexed by the USSR, resulting in the present-day Polish-speaking minorities in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, although many Poles were expelled or emigrated from those areas to areas within Poland's new borders.

Some television networks are aimed at ethnic minorities, including Spanish language networks Univisión and Telemundo.

Some advocates for the rights of sexual minorities resist linking that cause with the concept that sexuality is biologically determined or fixed at birth.

Some analysts have noted a backlash of resentment from excluded groups, in particular the sizeable Chinese and Indian Malaysian minorities.

Some minorities living in England have stated that they still view the flag with suspicion: during a poll of readers of New Nation, " most black people interviewed said they felt alienated by the flag of St George and still associated it with the BNP ".

Some minorities resent the privileges granted the Catholic church as other religious groups were actively or passively discouraged His critics hold that Duplessis's inherently-corrupt patronage politics, his reactionary conservatism, his emphasis on traditional family and religious values, his anachronistic anti-union stance, rural focus and his preservation and promotion of Catholic Church institutions over the development of a secular social infrastructure akin to that underway in most of the postwar West, stunted Quebec's social and economic development by at least a decade.

Some Muslim minorities in Asia ( e. g., in Israel or in India ) have maintained institutional recognition of sharia to adjudicate their personal and community affairs.

Some, however, have considered the implementation of this law unrealistic and concerns have been made that it will drive people away from Abkhazia and hurt the independent press due to a significant share of non-Abkhaz speakers among ethnic minorities as well as Abkhaz themselves, and a shortage of teachers of Abkhaz.

Some of them are scattered among the Han Chinese or other ethnic minorities.

Some, especially those who speak English and are influenced by international discourses around sexual minorities may identify as transgender or transsexual women.

Some of these communities preserved much of their traditional culture in spite of a long lasting communist government policies aimed at assimilation of non-Polish cultural and linguistic minorities.

Some feel that in the near future, Church Street may no longer be the " heart " of the gay community, yet others feel this has no validity at all, judging by the large crowds of gay men that are still prevalent on Church Street especially during the summer months, giving rise to debate over whether Toronto really needs an enclave for sexual minorities.

Some minorities are so relatively large or historically or otherwise important that the system is set up in a way to guarantee them comprehensive protection and political representation.

Some believe that these moves prompted the nationalist Moldovan Popular Front to tone down its pro-Romanian line and speak up for the rights of minorities.

Some characters used by ethnic minorities in China, such as Mongolian characters and Tibetan characters ( GB 16959-1997 and GB / T 20542-2006 ), have been added as well, which accounts for the renaming of the standard.

Some of these groups are also religious minorities.

Some liberal Hindu reform movements, especially those in the West, also support social acceptance of gays, lesbians and other gender minorities.

Some of his accomplishments include passing legislation making banks dispel lending policies that were restrictive to minorities, providing leadership for retaining a Cleveland Browns team in the NFL ( after then-Browns team owner Art Modell moved to Baltimore with all former Browns players and personnel to form the Baltimore Ravens ) as well as building a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns, and construction of the Gateway stadium development.

Some also allege that as Muslim minorities are bigger in many European countries than in the U. S., they influenced the movement.

Some researchers also hypothesize that in some cases, minorities, especially African American students, may stop trying in school because they do not want to be accused of “ acting white ” by their peers.

Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.

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

Some areas may provide archeological values such as ancient Indian village sites or hunting areas, caves, artifacts, etcetera.

Some vocational training schools provide such training, but the current need exceeds the facilities.

Some such youngsters rarely smile, or they try to speak with the mouth closed.

Some anthropologists, such as Lloyd Fallers and Clifford Geertz, focused on processes of modernization by which newly independent states could develop.

Some, such as the spadefoot toads, have strong biting jaws and are carnivorous or even cannibalistic.

Some of these have specific adaptations such as enlarged teeth for biting or spines on the chest, arms or thumbs.

Some salamanders adopt defensive poses when faced by a potential predator such as the North American northern short-tailed shrew ( Blarina brevicauda ).

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

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 alphabets today, such as the Hanuno ' o script, are learned one letter at a time, in no particular order, and are not used for collation where a definite order is required.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

Some are no more than a widening of a stream valley ; others, such as the Konya Ovasi, are large basins of inland drainage or are the result of limestone erosion.

Some of these churches are known as Anglican, such as the Anglican Church of Canada, due to their historical link to England ( Ecclesia Anglicana means " English Church ").

Some meals are communal, such as fondue, where a pot is set in the middle of the table for each person to dip into.

Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.

Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.

Some sects, such as the Universalists, believe in universalism that all souls will ultimately be saved and that there are no torments of hell.

Some, such as Francis Crick in 1994, have attempted a " scientific search for the soul ".

Some of these beliefs, such as Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism ( see below ) are not considered to be within Arminian orthodoxy and are dealt with elsewhere.

Some Arminians, such as professor and theologian Robert Picirilli, reject the doctrine of open theism as a " deformed Arminianism ".