Some days after that meeting, the delegation was approached by three French agents ( at first identified as " X ", " Y ", and " Z " in published papers, leading the controversy to be called the " XYZ Affair ") who demanded substantial bribes from the commissioners before negotiations could continue.

Some disorders may be very limited in their functional effects, while others may involve substantial disability and support needs.

Some have argued that below juniors there exists a substantial sector of illegitimate companies primarily focused on manipulating stock prices.

Some of his views, particularly those on divorce, abortion, and homosexuality, were opposed by a substantial segment of the party.

Some progress toward meeting equipment goals had been reported by the beginning of the 1980s, but substantial further modernization and adequately trained personnel were still required.

Some even use the term to refer to capitalist economies such that the state provides substantial public services and regulation of business activity.

Allegations of vaccine injuries in recent decades have appeared in litigation in the U. S. Some families have won substantial awards from sympathetic juries, even though most public health officials have said that the claims of injuries were unfounded.

Some controversy arose when Tritle, early in 2012, summarily " released "-without compensation-the scheduled dates of a substantial number of organists and choirs ( from Australia, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the USA ) that had previously been booked to play recitals or sing at the Cathedral.

Some people have argued that communitarianism's focus on social cohesion raises similarities with nationalistic communism, or various forms of authoritarianism, although supporters contend that there are substantial differences between communitarianism and authoritarianism, and that communitarianism has very little in common with Communism, which they see as not really valuing individual liberty at all.

Some groups of professional workers, such as nurses, teachers, and doctors, gained substantial awards.

Some early studies reported substantial loss of neurons in the hippocampus of elderly people, but later studies using more precise techniques found only minimal differences.

Some credited luck and others skill in his rapid promotions, and it is fair to say that Brock had substantial portions of both on his way to prominence.

Some imagery remains close to that found in earlier decks, but overall the Waite-Smith card designs represent a substantial departure from their predecessors.

Some members rejoined their previous denominations while a substantial number became Quakers.

Some 2 miles ( 3 km ) south of Botley, the river passes between the villages of Bursledon and Lower Swanwick and is crossed by the M27 motorway, the Portsmouth to Southampton railway line and the A27 road on three substantial bridges.

Some remixes involve substantial changes to the arrangement of a recorded work, but many are harmonic, such as creating a " vocal up " version of a song that emphasizes the lead singer's voice.

Some medieval thinkers argued that X's soul is X's only substantial form, responsible for all of the features of X's body.

Some substantial artificial mounds at Louisville are the remains of an ancient city of the Maya civilization.

Some commentators have maintained that Macleod's death and replacement by the less substantial figure of Barber dealt a fatal blow to the economic success of the Heath government.

Some experts consider this Adams's most substantial achievement.

Some sinkholes form when the land surface is changed, such as when industrial and runoff-storage ponds are created ; the substantial weight of the new material can trigger an underground collapse of supporting material, thus, causing a sinkhole.

Some maintain the difference was not substantial.

Some economists question the empirical validity of the distinction between Giffen and Veblen goods, arguing that whenever there is a substantial change in the price of a good its perceived nature also changes, since price is a large part of what constitutes a product.

Some professionals as a rule of thumb, require a reliability of 0. 70 or higher ( obtained on a substantial sample ) before they will use an instrument.

Some travellers " collect " immigration stamps in passports, and will choose to enter or exit countries via different means ( for example, land, sea or air ) in order to have different stamps in their passports.

Some challenges currently facing the city of Crystal Lake include a large and sudden increase in immigration, and an inconvenient road system leading to frequently snarled traffic.

Some tend to favor controlled levels of immigration — enough to benefit society economically, but not enough to profoundly alter it.

" Some studies suggest that contemporary segregation of Latinos is more likely to be due to factors such as lower socioeconomic status and immigration while the segregation of African Americans is more likely to be due to larger issues of the history of racism in the US.

Some countries ( e. g., UK and Australia ) operate points systems that give some lawful immigration visas to some non-citizens who are qualified for such shortage jobs.

Some schools engage students in such projects as a means to reinforce lessons regarding immigration and the history of the nation.

Some critics of the Sierra Club have charged that the club's views on population growth, and the efforts of some club members to restrain immigration, are a continuation of aspects of the Eugenics movement.

Some members argued that, as a practical matter, U. S. population could not be stabilized, let alone reduced, at the then-current levels of immigration.

Different waves of immigration ( Some resulting from wars, such as World War II ) have also had a hand in this mixture, mainly in the form of immigrants from central and eastern Europe and from east Asia ( mainly China and Japan ).

Some such boarding houses allow large groups with low incomes to share overcrowded rooms, or otherwise exploit people with problems rendering them vulnerable, such as those with irregular immigration status.

[...] Some might say we are now paying the price for the so-called ‘ benefits ’ of the multicultural society, the product of almost uncontrolled immigration and the abuse of asylum.

Some Republican legislators, with the backing of President George W. Bush, sought to address the dual issues of ongoing illegal immigration to the United States and the illegal status of an estimated 12 million people currently living in America.

Some paleoconservatives regard him as a proponent of mass immigration.

Some Spanish towns were founded, but the decline of the indigenous population and low immigration of Europeans led to Risaralda sitting largely abandoned until the mid-nineteenth century, when coffee cultivation arrived.

Some within the Liberal Party criticized his proposal, arguing that it would be more appropriate to fix current backlogs in the immigration system.

Some of the main contributions to that swift change were the expansion of colonization to the Brazilian inlands, and the huge immigration of Portuguese during that time, who brought their language and became a much more important ethnic group in Brazil.

Some staff may be qualified to give specialist legal advice or to advise on immigration.

Some of the programs produced by KETC for nationwide consumption include Inside / Out and The Letter People, instructional program about reading, which was seen on many PBS and educational television stations in mid-1970s, A Time for Champions an hour long documentary chronicling the St. Louis University soccer dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s, and Homeland and upcoming limited series examining the topic of immigration in the United States.

Some critics of illegal immigration claim the United States ' " birthright citizenship " is an incentive for illegal immigration, and that immigrants come to the country to give birth specifically so that their child will be a U. S. citizen.

Some 20, 000 delegates from various governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and the media gathered for a discussion of a variety of population issues, including immigration, infant mortality, birth control, family planning, the education of women, and protection for women from unsafe abortion services.

Some advocate a tightening of the requirements for legal immigration requirements to reduce total numbers, or move the proportions of legal immigrants away from those on family reunification programs to skills-based criteria.

Some immigration reductionists want legal immigration to be set at a percentage of current levels until fewer adverse effects are created by legal immigration.