He was immediately surrounded by dozens of the men, who were eager to engage in the back and forth, creating a scene that might exist in the United States if sports radio were suddenly converted to face-to-face exchanges and no one ever hung up the phone.
For example, Afghan Abdul Rahman, who converted to Christianity, faced the death penalty for his apostasy and it was not an isolated incident.
Brought before the Ottoman ruler with the connivance of hostile rabbis to answer charges of sedition, Sevi converted to Islam rather than face martyrdom, and accepted a sinecure as the Sultan's head gatekeeper.
I recently received an email from a 19-year-old Southern woman who converted to Islam and is facing tremendous social rejection from her community.
So if you owned one million euros in Greek bonds, they would be converted to bonds with a face value of 340.75 million drachmas.
In our experiments, the color images are converted to grayscale representation and the face images of size 200×180 are cropped using the nose coordinates provided as the centers.
Meyer et al looked at the ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ T cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in young versus old normal volunteers and found an increase in CD4+/CD8+ ratio as a function of age, suggesting there are fewer naïve cells available to be converted to memory cells in the face of a novel infection.
If a Christian spoke or acted out against the "Law of Mahomet", or consorted with a Turkish woman, or broke into a mosque, then he might face impalement unless he converted to Islam.
To develop an automatic welding quality classification method for the spot welding based on the Chernoff face image created by the electrode displacement signal features, an effective pattern feature extraction method was proposed by which the Chernoff face images were converted to binary ones, and each binary image could be characterized by a binary matrix.
In addition, all face stimuli were converted to grayscale, brought into an oval shape to remove hair, neck, and background information and were then presented on a light grey background (figure 1).
Each face image is first converted to a vector.
