Some ancient writers viewed Atlantis as fiction while others believed it was real.

Some writers trace the process to the medieval mode of trial by combat, in which some litigants, notably women, were allowed a champion to represent them.

Some writers ascribe to him a third son, Abimi ( Bacher, Ag.

Some writers have suggested that they may have evolved as a visual signal of sexual maturity and fertility.

Some writers, such as James-Charles Noonan, hold that, in the case of cardinals, the form used for signatures should be used also when referring to them, even in English ; and this is the usual but not the only way of referring to cardinals in Latin .< ref > An Internet search will uncover some hundreds of examples of " Cardinalis Ioannes < surname >", examples modern and centuries-old ( such as this from 1620 ), and the phrase " dominus cardinalis Petrus Caputius " is found in a document of 1250.

Some of these writers have finished incomplete Conan manuscripts by Howard.

Some writers have also alleged that Maritime business people were unwilling to take risks or invest in manufacturing, a thesis Acheson devotes much attention to debunking.

Some writers of the " realist " strain of modern Arthurian fiction have attempted a more sensible Camelot ; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city and describe it accordingly.

Some writers and dachshund experts have theorized that the early roots of the dachshund go back to ancient Egypt, where engravings were made featuring short-legged hunting dogs.

Some writers have noted that diaspora may result in a loss of nostalgia for a single home as people " re-root " in a series of meaningful displacements.

Some writers have argued that with detailed use of real unit accounting and demand surveys a planned economy could operate without a capital market, in a situation of abundance, The purpose of the price mechanism is to allow individuals to recognise the opportunity cost of decisions: in a state of abundance, there is no such cost.

( Judd ) Some writers credit sportsman, hunters and fisherman with the increasing influence of the conservation movement.

Some environmental writers, for example William Cronon have criticized the ecocentric view as have a dualist view as man being separate from nature.

Some writers use furigana to represent slang pronunciations, particularly those that would become hard to understand without the kanji to provide their meaning.

Some Christian writers believe it extremely rare that God provides a supernatural intervention that actually reverses the natural laws governing the human body.

Some e-mail viruses written after the Good Times scare contained text announcing that " This virus is called ' Good Times ,'" presumably hoping to gain kudos amongst other virus writers by appearing to have created a worldwide scare.

Some writers on counter-insurgency warfare emphasize the more turbulent nature of today's guerrilla warfare environment, where the clear political goals, parties and structures of such places as Vietnam, Malaysia, or El Salvador are not as prevalent.

Some writers that emerged after the Second World War followed Hugh MacDiarmid by writing in Scots, including Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith.

Some media writers and many attorneys recommend against using handloaded ammunition for defensive use.

Some writers have proposed building megastructures that have some similarities to a hollow Earth – see Dyson sphere, Globus Cassus.

Some writers have proposed that Hezekiah served as coregent with his father Ahaz for about 14 years, beginning during 729 BC.

Some writers restrict the meaning of endothermy to mechanisms that directly raise the animal's metabolic rate in order to produce heat.

Some writers see a conflict between Godwin's advocacy of " private judgement " and utilitarianism, as he says that ethics requires that individuals give their surplus property to each other resulting in an egalitarian society, but, at the same time, he insists that all things be left to individual choice.

Some writers, such as Edward Said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organized with an imperial center and a periphery.

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

Some presidencies, such as that of Ireland, are largely ceremonial, whereas other systems vest the President with substantive powers such as the appointment and dismissal of Prime Ministers or cabinets, the power to declare war, and powers of veto on legislation.

Some players use a house rule that if a player receives a hand with an abundance of nines ( variously, " a hand of 6 nines, or 5 nines and no meld ", or " 4 nines and no Aces, or 5 nines and only one Ace ", for example ), they can toss in their hand and declare a misdeal ; the cards are then re-dealt by the same dealer.

Some opposition members of the Bundestag asked the Federal constitutional court to declare the whole proceedings unconstitutional.

Some treaties, notably the United Nations Charter ( 1945 ) Article 2, and other articles in the Charter, seek to curtail the right of member states to declare war ; as does the older Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 for those nations who ratified it.

Some clans and most of the minor bloodlines declare themselves independent from any sects.

Some houses now choose to declare their wines on all but the worst years: Quinta do Vesuvio has declared a vintage every year with the exceptions of 1993 and 2002.

Some Mahayana scriptures declare the existence of " atman ," which in these scriptures is equated with buddha-nature.

Some assert that the reason for this official position is because the Greek government does not want to declare the Aromanians as a national minority.

Some, like Lewis H. Morgan, Leslie White, and Gerhard Lenski, declare technological progress to be the primary factor driving the development of human civilization.

Some guilds have a leader, a player who determines the rules for the guild, and usually decide who can and who cannot join, determine member punishments, deal with other guild leaders, and when necessary, declare war on them.

Some legislators argue that the states should use these theories to declare unconstitutional certain acts of Congress, especially including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

Some even went as far as to declare war on their enemies ( see Roman civil wars ).

Some, like Lewis H. Morgan, Leslie White, and Gerhard Lenski, declare technological progress to be the primary factor driving the development of human civilization.

Some have argued that the doctors ' haste to declare the girl brain dead and harvest her organs is a deliberate misinterpretation of medical policy in cases like this.

Some states allow for " living probate " and " ante mortem " probate, which are statutory provisions which authorize testators to institute an adversary proceeding during their life to declare the validity of the will, in order to avoid later will contests.

Some critics of the plan, including scholar and social critic Sulak Sivaraksa, have claimed that the movement to declare Buddhism a national religion is motivated by political gain, and may be being manipulated by supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra.

Some contests also declare regional winners for specific geographic subdivisions, such as continents, countries, U. S. states, or Canadian provinces.

Some others concluded that " bespoke tailoring has traditionally, if unofficially, meant something more than the dictionary definition allows " and that the ASA " took a rather ignorant decision to declare that there is no difference between bespoke and made-to-measure.

Some jurisdictions declare that a person dying as a result of physician assisted suicide does not commit suicide.

Some foolish men declare that Creator made the world.