Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Moscow and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.

Various princes of the Holy Land arrived in Limassol at the same time, in particular Guy of Lusignan.

Various letters were also sent to the Polish king, princes, and magnates exhorting them to receive the Ruthenians under their protection.

Various aspects of the book are doubtless indebted to particular models, of which the most important is Giovanni Paolo Marana ’ s L ’ Espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens ( Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ), widely known at the time, even though Montesquieu ’ s characters obviously are Persians and not Turks.

Various Buwayhid and Seljuk Turk chieftains rule in the caliph's name.

Various rulers of Serbia changed the words of the anthem to suit them.

Various Hindu and Buddhist rulers in the past have been represented as deities, especially after death, from Thailand to Indonesia.

Various Chinese rulers have held the name and title Emperor Wen, which in Chinese is read Wen (-) di ( 文帝 ).

* Various ancient Irish and British rulers, notably the High King ( Ard Rí ) of Ireland.

Various dynasties have ruled the fort ; including the Mauryans from the 3rd century BC, Vakataka rulers from the 3rd to the 5th century the Sengars from the 5th century and the Kalachuris from the 10th century.

Various Suharto-era bureaucrats and army personnel with connections with branches of earlier rulers contributed to a number of roof renewals and other renovations.

Various Christian groups have attempted to hold to this view and develop Christian oriented communities.

Various countries have national journalism codes which range from one extreme of, " Suicide and attempted suicide should in general never be given any mention " ( Norway ) to a more moderate, " In cases of suicide, publishing or broadcasting information in an exaggerated way that goes beyond normal dimensions of reporting with the purpose of influencing readers or spectators should not occur.

Various tables were produced in antiquity that attempted to calculate Easter for a series of years.

Various usurpers attempted to overthrow Michael VII or rule parts of the empire.

Various manufacturers attempted to commercialize this concept but a major difficulty was getting sufficient playback time with the low-performance tapes of the time, though by the early 1960s, tape formulations had improved enough to make the concept viable.

Various individual poems were published but attracted little attention and in 1799 he also attempted to produce a literary-philosophical periodical, Iduna.

Various Prime Ministers such as Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, and Pierre Trudeau have attempted to reasonably distance Canada from the United States to focus on self-sufficiency while maintaining good relations, while other Prime Ministers such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, and Brian Mulroney attempted to integrate with the Americans on an economic level and strived for close political relations hoping to enlarge markets.

Various methods in the 20th century have been attempted to control the population.

Various reconstructions have been attempted, and a 1990 reconstruction of the score by American composer Jonathan Dobin has been used in a number of modern productions.

Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to Karl Marx to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and / or political ideologies in the wake of secularisation.

Various analyst firms have attempted to list and categorize the major social software vendors in the marketplace.

Various explanations have been attempted to explain this occurrence, and also the alleged fact that Plataea and Mycale took place on the same day.

Various methods of classifying studies have been attempted ; a commonly used indexing system is the GBR code.

Various authors have attempted to distinguish between complete and incomplete forms of koro, as well as cultural and non-cultural forms.

Various attempted sales of the property and failed attempts at revising and resurrecting the game ensued.

Various stories relate how at some point in the past either students or fellows of the University attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together, but were unable to work out how to hold the structure together, and were obliged to resort to adding nuts and bolts.

Various studies have attempted to estimate intelligence by measuring the number of words or signs a dog can learn.

Various researchers have attempted to hypothesise ways in which learning style theory can be used in the classroom.

Various reconstructions have been attempted, but none were totally satisfactory.

* Active propagation: Various methods such as seed collection, cutting, air layering, etc., have been attempted to propagate rare and endangered plants.

Various translations of the French lyrics were attempted over the next few years but none were well-received until Weir's version.

Various guards had then attempted to arrest Sanzoh ; he would soon be presented before the king of China.

Various studies have attempted to " defocus " participants, with mixed results depending on methods used.

Various legal aspects of the zakat are discussed in the hadith: the types of properties that are zakatable, the minimum quanitity that is zakatable ( the nisab ), the rate of zakat and the rule of one-year holding period.

Various fraternities challenged this rule in court.

Various Mongolic and Turkic peoples from Central Asia had given the title new prominence after the Mongol rule throughout the Old World and later brought the title " Khan " into Northern Asia.

Various game modes are available, with different rule alterations that provide suitable challenges for players of various degrees of skill.

Various parties asserted ways to resolve this ' unjust and iniquitous murder ', which led to a moderate compromise in 1086 in which Berenguer Ramon II would rule Catalonia with his brother's four-year-old son ( Later to become known as Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona for eleven years until he came of age.

Various facts can make a rule applicable.

Various puppet governments have been installed by the other Colonies to rule Sagittaron over the generations, even in the recent decades of the united federal government.

Various regional feats, character attributes, prestige classes, spells and non-player character statistics use the new rule set.

Various market failures rule out an ideal result.

Various conquerors tried, in vain, to bind various cities of the former Sassanian provinces, as well as the newly conquered Byzantine provinces of Mesopotamia, into a coherent unit under their own rule.

Various principles are included within the act, such the rule that individual has the right to retrieve the data collected about them at any time under certain conditions.

Various sizes and shapes of chain and weight were used as there was no set rule on the construction of these weapons.

Various Germanic tribes arrived following nearly six centuries of Roman rule, which had completely transformed the area into the Roman province of Tarraconensis.