Various other social and political movements, both religious and secular, have also been linked to millennialist metaphors by scholars.

Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

Various theories and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars and philosophers.

Various are the opinions of scholars and historians as to how deep Anne's commitment to the Reformation was, how much was she perhaps only personally ambitious, and how much she had to do with Henry's defiance of Papal power.

Various scholars have offered significant refinements to this basic formulation ( details below ).

Various explanations have, therefore, been offered by ancient as well as modern scholars without, however, succeeding in furnishing a completely satisfactory solution.

Various scholars beginning with Magnus Olsen have pointed to the similarity with what Sif does at the feast described in Lokasenna.

Various scholars ( including a prominent U. S. circuit court judge ) conclude that the U. S. national-electoral process is not a democracy due to issues around voting rights in Puerto Rico.

Various 19th century scholars, such as Julius Wellhausen and William Robertson Smith, believed the tradition to have been validated from the occasional occurrence of a merman motif found in Assyrian and Phoenician art, including coins from Ashdod and Arvad.

Various scholars have developed guidelines, or canons of textual criticism, to guide the exercise of the critic's judgment in determining the best readings of a text.

Various scholars have debated the nature of such categories, as well as the definition of the term " third gender ".

Various schools of thought within Islamic jurisprudence may define this consensus as that of the first generation of Muslims only ; the consensus of the first three generations of Muslims ; the consensus of the jurists and scholars of the Muslim world, or scholarly consensus ; or the consensus of all the Muslim world, both scholars and laymen.

Various scholars have detected a number of analogues to She in earlier literature.

Various scholars and historians such as John McLeod attribute the conversion of the Ghauris to Islam at the hands of Mahmud Ghazni who converted them to Islam after his conquest of Ghor.

Various scholars ( including Norman Davies in his 2004 book Rising ' 44: The Battle for Warsaw ) argue that during the Warsaw Uprising both the governments of United Kingdom and the United States did little to help Polish insurgents and that the Allies put little pressure on Stalin to help the Polish struggle.

Various scholars have suggested Shakespeare's possible authorship, since a number of passages appear to bear his stamp, among other sections that are remarkably uninspired.

Various scholars see these as deriving from cheironomic hand-gestures, from the ekphonetic notation of Byzantine chant, or from punctuation or accent marks.

Various reforms of the alphabet by scholars of Church Slavonic, Ruthenian, and Russian languages caused the written and spoken word to diverge by varying amounts.

Various scholars have formuated speculations concerning whether any of the earlier accounts of European explorers in the New World fit the coast of Massachusetts, but Smith's account surely identifies Plum Island.

Various scholars dispute the attendance of Chen Yun, Liu Shaoqi, Wang Jiaxiang, He Kequan, Deng Fa, Nie Rongzhen, and Deng Xiaoping.

Various contemporary scholars have characterized Abhinavagupta as a " brilliant scholar and saint ", " the pinnacle of the development of Kasmir Śaivism " and " in possession of yogic realization ".

Various scholars have dated the composition of these religious poems to anywhere in the range of the first three centuries AD.

Various scholars have proposed that it comes from the Chinese term for " Turk " ( 突厥, Tūjué ); from the name of Dali ( 大理國, Dàlǐguó ), the capital of the Kingdom of Nanzhao ; a Chinese corruption of the term Dàyuèzhī ( 大月支 or 大月氏 ), a Chinese term referring to Mongol-speaking Kushan Huns.

Various of the apartments are of the terrace type, being on the ground floor so that entrance is direct.

Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ), one of the earliest scientific works on atomic theory

# Various basic foodstuffs such as rice, sugar, wheat, cooking oil and butter ( the Salex Group enjoys a de facto monopoly on imports of wheat, sugar, flour, butter and cooking oil.

** Various articles on Alcidamas ( 1856 – 1919, with links to further online material )

Various monasteries were founded on these lines, but without any formal bond between them.

Various forms of biographic and counselling work have been developed on the basis of anthroposophy.

Various other claims have been made to the Saville Inquiry about gunmen on the day.

Various definitions of compactness may apply, depending on the level of generality.

Various attempts to explain this foundered on other difficulties.

Various forms of coercion are distinguished: first on the basis of the kind of injury threatened, second according to its aims and scope, and finally according to its effects, from which its legal, social, and ethical implications mostly depend.

Various paranormal interpretations appeared in the popular culture, and one of the more outspoken proponents of rods as alien life forms is Jose Escamilla, who claims to have been the first to film them on March 19, 1994 at Roswell, New Mexico, while attempting to film a UFO.

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

Various copies of portions of the Code of Hammurabi have been found on baked clay tablets, some possibly older than the celebrated diorite stele now in the Louvre.

Various introductory texts to critical psychology written in the United Kingdom have tended to focus on discourse, but this has been seen by some proponents of critical psychology as a reduction of human experience to language which is as politically dangerous as the way mainstream psychology reduces experience to the individual mind.

Various limitations of the model have been compensated at later IMS versions by additional logical hierarchies imposed on the base physical hierarchy.

Various concepts based on length, such as the arc length of curves, area of plane regions, and volume of solids all possess natural analogues in Riemannian geometry.

Various styles dictate the curve of the fingers and thumb, as do the style of piece ; a more pronounced curve and lighter hold on the bow is used for virtuoso or more delicate pieces, while a flatter curve and sturdier grip on the bow sacrifices some power for easier control in strokes such as detaché, spiccato, and staccato.

Various states in the republic of India provide 12 years of compulsory school education based on national curriculum framework designed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training.

Various interior scenes were shot on a soundstage ; the final scenes were shot at the Sepulveda Dam, in Sherman Oaks.

Various dating methods have been used and are used today depending on local geology and context, and while there is some variance in the results from these dating methods, nearly all of them provide evidence for a very old Earth, approximately 4. 6 billion years.

* Readings on Fascism and National Socialism by Various – Project Gutenberg

Various groups along the political spectrum naturally differ on what they believe constitutes " true " political freedom.

Various forms of socialism based on, or which advocate, free markets have existed since the 19th century.

Various factors have so far stymied more diversification ( a small market of 1 million people, dependence on French imports, inability to capitalize on regional markets, lack of entrepreneurial zeal among the Gabonese, and the fairly regular stream of oil " rent ").