Variants of the French semi-presidential system, developed at the beginning of the Fifth Republic by Charles de Gaulle, are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka and several post-colonial countries which have emulated the French model.

Variants included the Cosworth Vega, a short-lived limited-production performance model, introduced in March 1975.

Variants of football have been codified for reduced-sized teams ( i. e. Five-a-side football ) play in non-field environments ( i. e. Beach soccer, Indoor soccer, and Futsal ) and for teams with disabilities ( i. e. Paralympic association football ).

Variants of both of the M16 and AK-47 are still in wide international use today, though other automatic rifle designs have since been introduced.

Variants of leet have been used for censorship purposes for many years ; for instance "@$$" and "$#!+" are frequently seen to make a word appear censored to the untrained eye but obvious to a person familiar with leet.

Variants of Nim have been played since ancient times.

Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems.

Variants have to do with the precise time the women visited the tomb, the number and identity of the women ; the purpose of their visit ; the appearance of the messenger ( s )— angelic or human ; their message to the women ; and the response of the women.

Variants of the Sten and modern-day Heckler & Koch MP5 have been manufactured with integral suppressors, and such weapons are on occasion used by special forces and police units.

Variants of the sport have recently emerged.

Variants of the recipe, called Four Thieves Vinegar, have been passed down for hundreds of years and are a staple of New Orleans hoodoo practices.

Variants on the plot have popularly, but only occasionally, been demonstrated by a handful of famed stage illusionists and mentalists.

Variants of the system were used for public address applications, and more recently, other variations have been used to test space-equipment resistance to the very loud sound and vibration levels that the launching of rockets produces.

Variants on this format permit teams to have a total of X years of experience ( e. g. four freshman or sophomores, three juniors, but only two seniors ), as quiz bowl skill is thought to be proportional to experience.

Variants of the following event have occurred in Europe from time to time:

Variants that have arisen with domestication include the mirror carp, with large, mirror-like scales ( linear mirror – scaleless except for a row of large scales that run along the lateral line ; originating in Germany ), the leather carp ( virtually unscaled except near dorsal fin ), and the fully scaled carp.

Variants of the flag have been in use since 1572 and in 1937 the flag was officially formalized as the national flag of the Netherlands and of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Variants of this algorithm have been shown to be weakly stable ( i. e. they exhibit numerical stability for well-conditioned linear systems ).

Variants of the T-shirt, like the tank top, crew neck, A-shirt ( with the nickname " wife beater "), muscle shirt, scoop neck, and V-neck have been developed.

Variants of the country's name sometimes make it clear what country they really have in mind.

Variants of the debt profile method are employed or have been proposed.

Variants of the test have been developed for complex samples, such as where the data is weighted.

Variants may have projections on the back of the main blade.

Variants on the theme have the kitsune retain other foxlike traits, such as a coating of fine hair, a fox-shaped shadow, or a reflection that shows its true form.

Variants of the bumper sticker have developed in recent years, including vinyl decals meant to be applied to a car's rear windshield, and chrome emblems to be affixed to the body of the car itself, generally on the rear ( the " Jesus fish " and its " Darwin fish " counterpart are popular examples ).

Variants largely differ on how cards are dealt and the methods by which players can improve a hand.

He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation ( 1957, for jazz ensemble ), Concertino ( 1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra ; one of its movements, Progression in Tempo, has sometimes been performed separately ), Abstraction ( 1959, for nine instruments ), the opera The Visitation ( 1966 ), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk ( 1960, for 13 instruments ), which was recorded by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

Variants have also sometimes been named according to their deadliness in poultry, especially chickens:

Variants of the basic technique have been implemented in a number of research works and commercial software products.

Variants of the previous layout have been proposed by Clairvoyante / Nouvoyance ( and demonstrated by Samsung ) as members of the PenTile matrix family of layouts specifically designed for subpixel rendering efficiency.

Variants of the P226 SIG Sauer pistol have been procured as a replacement for the Browning pistol in some units and as a UOR for use in Afghanistan.

Variants of C have been designed to provide C's features as a portable assembly language, including one of the two languages called C -- and the C Intermediate Language.

Variants have been developed that cover other time periods and allow for additional players by elevating a neutral country to a playable power.

Variants have been cloned from other algal species, and more are expected.

Variants of the species have been observed as far north as Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, Canada and as far west as Montana, Nebraska, and North Dakota.

* Variants of the Scottish kilt adopted in other Celtic nations, such as the Welsh cilt and the Cornish cilt

Variants of the name Lapp were originally used in Sweden and Finland and, through Swedish, adopted by all major European languages:, German,, ( lopari ),,, ( Lápōnes ),,,,,.

* US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), " Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Three Variants of Ciphertext Stealing for CBC Mode ", Addendum to NIST Special Pub 800-38A, Oct. 2010.

Variants of the Formula Vee rules exist in the Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Germany and New Zealand.

Variants are known from the USA in the 1880s and Australia in the 1850s.

Variants of mincemeat are found in Australia, Brittany, Canada, northern Europe, Ireland, South Africa, the UK and the United States.