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 people have luck and some have no luck and that, whatever people who prefer order say, is the size of it.

" Some prefer " America the Beautiful " over " The Star-Spangled Banner " due to the latter's war-oriented imagery.

Some bicycle parts, particularly hub-based gearing systems, are complex, and many cyclists prefer to leave maintenance and repairs to professional bicycle mechanics.

Some but not most Baptists prefer not to be called Protestants, claiming a direct ancestral line going back to the apostles in the 1st century.

Some doubt whether there is a unified cognitive science and prefer to speak of the cognitive sciences in plural.

Some authors of technical documents may prefer either mouse devices or the more generic pointing devices.

Some academics prefer to transliterate the term as Khalīfah.

Some dancers prefer to hold the arms much lower, similar to conventional ballroom positioning.

Some consumers prefer the taste of soda manufactured with sugar.

Some people also prefer to have the information on their tags transferred to a smaller, sometimes golden or silver tag by a jeweler, as the original tag can be considered too large and bulky by some.

Some forms of synthesis, like, for instance, sampling and additive synthesis are not feasible in analog synthesizers, while on the other hand, many musicians prefer the character of analog synthesizers over their digital equivalent.

Some prefer the Wade-based Taoism because it is more familiar than Daoism and because the borrowing is a fully assimilated English word anyway ; such words are generally unaffected by later systems of romanization.

Some theorists prefer to stick to Euclidean space and say that there is no dual.

Some Protestants prefer to call it an ordinance, viewing it not as a specific channel of divine grace but as an expression of faith and of obedience to Christ.

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 ' hard ' eurosceptics such as UKIP prefer to call themselves euro-realists rather than ' sceptics ', and regard their position as pragmatic rather than " in principle ".

Some proponents of spelling reform view homophones as undesirable and would prefer that they were eliminated.

Some noted brass pedagogues prefer to instruct the use of the embouchure from a less analytical point of view.

Some authors prefer to write all expressions covariantly.

Some luthiers prefer this method of construction as they claim it allows better sustain of each note.

Some veterinarians prefer radioiodine treatment over surgery because it does not carry the risks associated with anesthesia.

Some users prefer " C " style presses over " O " presses, as there is more room to place bullets into cartridge mouths on " C " presses.

Some prefer monogamous relationships for sex, and others may prefer many different partners throughout their lives