Many count the Rwandan genocide as one of the defining events of the post-cold-war world.
It's hard to feel too bad for the vanquished Mercer Bears as many count their defeat of Duke on Friday as the best thing to happen last week.
Taken as a whole, though, growth in the world economy seems likely to slow below 3% next year a pace that many count as recessionary.
In a world of insurance forms, rushed office visits and ubiquitous technology, many count such emergency calls among the purest expressions of their Hippocratic oath.
But this new crop of second-home owners are buying at peak prices, and many count on renting their new houses at least part of the season to help cover the mortgage and taxes.
However, critics of these studies point out that many count people who are divorced or widowed as unmarried, even though they might have spent many years as part of a couple.
But, says Detlef Pollack of the Wilhelms University in Münster, many count on the church to succour the sick, to offer counsel in times of need or to educate their children.
Earlier this month British and even American newspapers (including The New York Times) were abuzz with the news that Roddy Doyle, whom many count as Ireland's greatest living novelist, had attacked James Joyce, whom most count as Ireland's, and maybe modernism's, greatest novelist.
