Some gay men refer to themselves as " friends of Dorothy ".

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

The singer Ethel Merman, who was a friend of Hoover's since 1938, said in a 1978 interview: " Some of my best friends are homosexual.

Some of the younger men who attend do so because of their connections ; others come along as friends of their age-mates.

Some people are looking for romantic interests, while others just want to find friends.

Some of them are correspondence between Richard and his students while others seem to have been written at the request of friends.

Some mourners use the shiva as a distraction from their loss, other mourners prefer to openly experience their grief together with friends and family.

Some were sent to friends, listeners and critics and two dozen were left for sale on consignment at Music Millennium Records where they sat unsold for months.

Some people have questioned the veracity of the letter's authorship, expressing doubt that a young girl such as Virginia would refer to children her own age as " my little friends ".

Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.

Some reformers were disappointed that President Garfield had advocated limited tenure only to minor office seekers and had given appointments to his old friends.

Some of his friends suggested that Ravel frequented the bordellos of Paris, but no factual evidence has ever been found to substantiate this rumor.

Some 130 people attended ; there were hecklers, but Hitler's military friends promptly ejected them by force, and the agitators " flew down the stairs with gashed heads.

Some of her old friends, the Bohemians, now and then drop in to have a little chat with her, and though she talks beautifully of her present feelings and way of life, she generally, by way of parenthesis, takes out her little tobacco pouch and makes a cigarette or two for self and friend, and then falls back upon old times with decided gusto and effect.

Some examples are: " Better to be safe than sorry ", " The evil deserves no aid ", " Be friends with whom you don't like ", " Don't judge people by the way they look ", " Slow and steady wins the race ", " Once started down the dark path, forever will it hold your destiny ", and " Your overconfidence is your weakness ".

Some time later, Guybrush and Elaine are seen sailing off on a ship just married, as various friends he met on his adventures wave them goodbye.

Some of his last essays, found in his nonfiction anthologies and in his posthumous collection Winter's Light, describe his struggle to come emotionally to terms with a disease that had already killed many of his friends and fellow writers.

Some of Roo's friends include Tigger, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Christopher Robin.

Some HIV-positive travellers took to sending anti-HIV medication through the post to friends or contacts in advocacy groups in advance.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

Tom McCord, a 1969 Herculaneum High School graduate, is the author of a novel, Some Forever, that tells a dual story about six friends growing up in Herculaneum.

Some biographers have suggested Mary was high-strung or emotional ; irrespective of such claims, reports from friends in the community where she grew up corroborate reports of her ability to heal at a young age.

Some people have numerous intrusive thoughts and physical sensations that push them to check with family, friends, and physicians.

Some cartoons portray Popeye and Bluto as friends and Navy buddies, although Bluto usually turns on Popeye when an object of interest ( usually Olive ) is put between them.

Some of these newcomers start off being disliked by the four children including the gypsy girl Jo, and Henrietta, another tomboy ; and some of them are friends from the start, including Sooty and Tinker, both sons of Uncle Quentin's scientist friends.

Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations.

Some proponents have claimed that Bigfoot is omnivorous and mainly nocturnal.

Some scholars have claimed that the vow formula of the Rule is best translated as " to live in this place as a monk, in obedience to its rule and abbot.

Some Christians, such as Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, also have traditions of fasting, in which saints, as well as Jesus, are claimed to have been able to go for a period of time ( without any food, or with no food but the Eucharist ).

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 ).

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

Some aficionados who prefer class-A amplifiers also prefer the use of thermionic valve ( or " tube ") designs instead of transistors, especially in Single-ended triode output configurations for several claimed reasons:

Some specialized rifles in the larger calibers are claimed to have an accurate range of up to about, although most have considerably less.

Some investigators claimed to have discovered extensive embezzlement, corruption, and money laundering by Aristide.

Some monarchs even claimed divine ancestry, such as Egyptian pharaohs and Sapa Incas, who claimed descent from their respective sun gods and often maintained this bloodline by practicing incestuous marriage.

'" Some newspapers later claimed cocaine use caused blacks to rape white women and was improving their pistol marksmanship.

Some claimed their presence was a threat to peace and security.

Some hardcore bands in Italy have claimed to be irrealist.

Some ads claimed to offer " Jeeps still in the factory crate.

Some of his books said that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia although he later claimed that was a mistake ; he attended high school at the Baltimore City College.

Some early reports described the tsunami wave as being 40 meters ( 130 feet ) high, but later reports claimed it was 3 m ( 10 ft ).

Some critics claimed that he did not pursue the High Seas Fleet because he feared a torpedo attack and overestimated the danger from a massed attack by enemy destroyers.

Some, including the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes, have claimed that Konon's family had been resettled in Thrace, where he entered the service of Emperor Justinian II, when the latter was advancing on Constantinople with an army of 15, 000 horsemen provided by Tervel of Bulgaria in 705.

Some have claimed that both tribes came from the Swiss mountains.

Some Medieval commentators, following William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the Meic Uilleim.

Some were claimed as prizes by Britain, France, Norway and the Soviet Union.

Some commentators claimed that after 1980, American conservatives re-engineered the term to ideologically re-frame US politics as a culture war.

Some parapsychologists have claimed that the aggregate results of ganzfeld experiments indicate that, on average, the target image is selected by the receiver more often than would be expected by chance alone ; these claims have been summarized by parapsychologist Dean Radin in his book The Conscious Universe.