Various parts of the Lutheran Church hold stances on the issue ranging from declaring homosexual acts as sin to acceptance of homosexual relationships.

Various spiritual traditions offer a wide variety of devotional acts.

* Various humiliations, such as training the detainee to act as a dog and forcing him to watch puppet shows depicting sexual acts between him and Osama bin Laden at his mock birthday party

Various other administrations of government ( for example, a department regulating motor vehicles, air pollution, forestry practices, or real estate sales agents ) may impose fines or revocation of permits or licenses upon persons or corporations for acts of commission or omission found to be violating operating, permitting, reporting, or other rules.

Various popular rock acts played there, including such bands and musicians as Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, The J. Geils Band, The Who, Queen, Boston, Cream, Yes, KISS, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, The Band, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Rush, Electric Light Orchestra, Genesis, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Golden Earring, Grand Funk Railroad, Humble Pie, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Sha Na Na, Loggins and Messina, Lee Michaels, Heart, Journey, Deep Purple and Elvis Costello.

Various acts such as celebrating a party on a day of public mourning, contempt of the various rites of the state and disloyalty in word or act were punished as crimes against the majesty of the republic.

Various political Muslim leaders since have styled themselves Caliph and served as dynastic heads of state, sometimes in addition to another title, such as the Ottoman Sultan.

Various authors have compiled lists of simple machines and machine elements, sometimes lumping them together under a single term such as " simple machines ", " basic machines ", " compound machines ", or " machine elements "; the use of the term " simple machines " in this broader sense is a departure from the neoclassical sense of the six essential simple machines, which is why many authors prefer to avoid its use, preferring the other terms ( such as " machine element ").

Various criticisms of space exploration are sometimes made.

" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).

Various casualty figures have been published, sometimes with much acrimony, although the highest estimates for British and German casualties appear to be discredited.

Various forms of hallucinations affect different senses, sometimes occurring simultaneously, creating multiple sensory hallucinations for those experiencing them.

Various Jewish thinkers, however, have proposed a " finite God ," sometimes in response to the problem of evil and ideas about free will.

Various rules of elision sometimes prevent a grammatical syllable from making a full syllable, and certain other lengthening and shortening rules ( such as correption ) can create long or short syllables in contexts where one would expect the opposite.

Various dictionaries often use the interpunct ( in this context, sometimes called hyphenation point ) to indicate syllabification within a word with multiple syllables.

Various techniques are often employed to " pad " TV movies with low budgets and underdeveloped scripts, such as music video-style montages, flashbacks, or repeated footage, and extended periods of dramatic slow motion footage ( sometimes taken to ridiculous extremes as in the USA Network thriller Wheels of Terror ).

Various forms of elaboration on this scheme exist: for example, Seyfert 1s with relatively narrow broad lines are sometimes referred to as narrow-line Seyfert 1s.

Various accounts have asserted that during the Vietnam War, members of the Viet Cong sometimes made calculated use of disembowelment as a means of psychological warfare, to coerce and intimidate rural peasants.

Various methods of producing the sound have involved a wooden mallet striking a wooden surface, a sledgehammer striking a wooden box, or a particularly large bass drum, or sometimes simultaneous use of more than one of these methods .</ small >

Various cognates of the word Fürst exist in other European languages ( see extensive list under Prince ), sometimes only used for a princely ruler.

Various forms of self-expression and protest are sometimes restricted by governmental policy, economic circumstances, religious orthodoxy, social structures, or media monopoly.

Various names were given to these positions ( Damiano, for example, called them " subtelties "); the first book which called them " studies " appears to be Chess Studiels, an 1851 publication by Josef Kling and Bernhard Horwitz, which is sometimes also regarded as the starting point for the modern endgame study.

Various commentaries have been written which seek to supply the lacking source documentation, and indeed today the Mishneh Torah is sometimes used as a sort of an index to aid in locating Talmudic passages.

Various western historical writers have sometimes used the term dervish rather loosely, linking it to, among other things, the Mahdist uprising in Sudan and other rebellions against colonial powers.

Various grid integration schemes have been developed, sometimes after analytical work for quadrature ( Scrocco ).

Various modelling techniques are used, such repoussé (" pushed-back ") in metalwork, where a thin metal plate is hammered from behind, sometimes with a stamp bearing a design, automatically producing a relief.

Various types of covers, usually prepared by collectors, historians or other enthusiasts, have great historical significance and, regardless of the intention for the mailed item, are sometimes noteworthy or famous in their own right.

Various characters in the series question the Warners about this and refer to them as a variety of different animals, frequently " puppy children " owing to their ears and tails or sometimes Toons because of their 1930s appearance.

Various other music was sometimes used as the theme song, including the CHiPs theme song for the episode titled " CHiPs ".

Various models were given away over the years — sometimes the same model several times in one episode, sometimes a different model each time the Jackpot was won in an episode.

Various singers depicted in the role of Carmen.

Various other singers joined The Gospelaires from time to time, including Judy Clay, Cissy Houston, and Doris Troy, whose chart selection " Just One Look ," when she recorded it in 1963, featured backing vocals from the Gospelaires.

Various bands and music groups that practice extra-curricularly are also supported by the college, including a wind ensemble, concert band, stage band, string ensemble, jazz ensemble, and singers.

Various source singers are mentioned in the notes to the songs and the listener is encouraged to seek out what recordings are available.

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