According to a Tang dynasty book, The Notes of Feng, tug of war, under the name " hook pulling "( 牵钩 ), was used by the military commander of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period ( 8th century BCE to 5th century BCE ) to train warriors.

According to the dictates of Feng Shui, it is favorable to site a residence to the south of a nearby hill ( and it is also practical, gaining protection from chilly northern winds ).

According to the Records of Three Kingdoms, the aide-de-camp Tian Feng was about to support Yuan Shao behind a low wall for refuge.

According to an article by The Guardian in 2010, a restaurant located in the Beijing Zoo named " Bin Feng Tang " offers various dishes of exotic animals on its menu.

According to Xinhua, the state news agency of the People's Republic of China, ten minutes of footage containing Chow Yun-fat's portrayal of Singaporean pirate Sao Feng have been trimmed from versions of the film which may be shown in China.

According to Taiwan Defense Review ( TDR ), the HF-2E land attack cruise missile is not a derivative of the Hsiung Feng 2 HF-2 anti-ship missile as it is often incorrectly reported.

According to statistics, 70 % of the population lives in the public estates in the new town of Fanling-Sheung Shui.

According to some Social workers, Tin Shui Wai is prone to family tragedies because of its remote location, limited employment opportunities, and high density of public housing estates.

According to the Shui Wakashu, quoting from the Tōdaiji Yōroku, Gyoki stated that they were together at Vulture Peak when the Buddha preached the Lotus Sutra.

According to Shui Jing Zhu, General Suo Mai ( 索勱, also So Man ) of Dunhuang introduce irrigation techniques to the region by damming the Zhubin ( possibly the Kongque ) river to irrigate the fields, and produced good harvest for the next three years.

According to Hardman, " We knew that we could not raise enough money to shoot a film on a par with the classic horror films with which we had all grown up.

According to the Board Chair, " with any charity created after 9 / 11, the farther you get away from the event, the more difficult it is to raise funds.

According to a 1933 letter that Jack wrote to Will H. Hays, then president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Zanuck requested a higher salary and " indicated his desire to raise the salaries of the actors and personnel in the motion pictures we were producing ".

According to legend, Frank and Jesse James hid out on Sterling Creek in the 1870s to raise horses and hunt buffalo.

According to the Commission, the carriers " colluded to raise the price of by imposing fuel charges for more than seven years ".

According to Forbes Magazine, Delaware County is the fifth best place in the United States to raise a family and the best place in the state of Ohio to reside.

Despite his physical limitations, during 1994 Norman did " a handful of concerts to try and raise money for his heart operation ", According the 1995 Phydeaux Newsletter, Norman " had to fly in two or three days early, to rest – then do the concert, and stay an extra two or three days to rest.

" According to historian Emily Yellin, " The government was to build the buildings and the USO was to raise private funds to carry out its main mission: boosting the morale of the military.

According to the newspaper, the crimes " were conducted to raise money for a war upon the United States Government, which the group calls ' ZOG ,' or Zionist Occupation Government.

According to a television interview with Pantoliano, Little Victories was not completed and went into turnaround because of a failure to raise the funds necessary for production.

According to the National Book Foundation: " From Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson to Gore Vidal and Joan Didion, The New York Review of Books has consistently employed the liveliest minds in America to think about, write about, and debate books and the issues they raise.

According to the Crime Ordinance, a seditious intention is an intention to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the person of government, to excite inhabitants of Hong Kong to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in Hong Kong as by law established, to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in Hong Kong, to raise discontent or disaffection amongst inhabitants of Hong Kong, to promote feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Hong Kong, to incite persons to violence, or to counsel disobedience to law or to any lawful order.

According to several literature reviews, eastern towhees may renest after failed nesting attempts and can raise 2, and in the south sometimes 3, broods per season.

According to Jordan, he'd planned to meet up with John Mayer and Willie Weeks in January, 2005 to perform a benefit concert on a NBC sponsored telethon Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope to raise funds and public awareness benefiting victims in the aftermath of the tsunami that struck southeast Asia.

According to canon law, which was also the law in the Papal States, non-Christians could not raise a Christian child, even if the Christian child was their own.

According to U. S. News & World Report, " With money pouring in from the district and from national groups ( Farrell expects to raise close to $ 3 million, Shays a bit less ) and unregulated political interest groups targeting Shays with automated calls and negative telemarketing designed as polls, this one already has the odor of ugly.

According to Sunni tradition, ibn Hanbal was among the scholars to resist the Caliph's interference and the Mu ' tazila doctrine of a created Qur ' an — although some Orientalist sources raise a question on whether or not he remained steadfast

According to the biographers, for hours Ramakrishna would reminisce about his own eventful spiritual life, tell tales, explain Vedantic doctrines with extremely mundane illustrations, raise questions and answer them himself, crack jokes, sing songs, and mimic the ways of all types of worldly people, keeping the visitors were enthralled.

According to an account by Elbert Hubbard in the same volume ( p. 314 ), Paine organized " the Bank of North America to raise money to feed and clothe the army, and performed sundry and various services for the colonies.

According to the website, Global Village trips offer volunteers the opportunity to experience another culture while making a difference in the lives of others ... work alongside members of the host community in building decent, affordable housing ... help raise awareness of the burden of poverty housing and create a true global village of love, community, homes and hope.

According to Eaton's later testimony, he and Burr met several times, and Eaton came to believe that Burr was planning to raise an army to invade Spanish territory in the southwest and to establish an independent state, with himself as sovereign.

According to the local government, mastery of Standard English is imperative to raise living standards in Singapore, and Singlish causes problems when Singaporeans need to communicate in English, the " global language of commerce, business and technology ".

According to American Medical News, eight states saw two or more liability insurers raise rates by at least 30 percent in 2001.

According to one Shi ‘ i source, the first person to raise doubts about its attribution to Ali was Ibn Khallikan, a Sunni scholar ( d. 1211 / 1282 ).

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

According to Rachael Hanel, " She lived off her savings, interest income from a trust, money from her parents, and selling her simple, Rubenesque line drawings.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 76 % of the money handed out for Arizona ’ s voucher program has gone to children already in private schools.

According to Dave Ulmer's message, the original stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot.

According to the CIA, with the dissolution of Somalia's formal banking system, many informal money transfer operators have arisen to fill the void.

According to Barr, " in practice money income as a proportion of total income varies widely and unsystematically.

According to contemporary biographers Theodore Beza and Nicolas Colladon, Gérard believed his son would earn more money as a lawyer than as a priest.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.

According to Cooley, the reply was that " money means nothing to us ; our lives mean nothing to us.

According to some authorities, it was in Alaeddin's time, and by his advice, that the Ottomans ceased acting like vassals to the Seljuk ruler: they no longer stamped money with his image or used his name in public prayers.

According to Montesquieu, " All the money of Rome go to Benevento ... as the Beneventani direct weakness ".

According to Kevin Phillips, author and political strategist to U. S. President Richard Nixon, the United States is a plutocracy in which there is a " fusion of money and government.

According to Bahā ' al-Dīn, Saladin used his own money to buy the child back:

According to co-creator Berman, he and Piller had considered setting the new series on a colony planet, but they felt a space station would both appeal more to viewers and save money that would be required for on-location shooting for a " land-based " show.

According to interviews with Norm Prescott, Paramount offered Roddenberry a substantial sum of money to abandon creative control of the project and let Filmation proceed with their " kiddy space cadet " idea.

According to the CIA and the Central Bank of Somalia, despite experiencing civil unrest, Somalia has maintained a healthy informal economy, based mainly on livestock, remittance / money transfer companies and telecommunications.

According to Gretzky, Pocklington needed money as his other business ventures were not doing well ( a similar reason to the cause of Babe Ruth being sold to the New York Yankees ), and had gone " sour " on Gretzky and wanted to move him.

According to the strict interpretation of the gold standard, this 1844 act marks the establishment of a full gold standard for British money.

According to Tamar's historian, the aim of the Georgian expedition to Trebizond was to punish the Byzantine emperor Alexius IV Angelus for his confiscation of a shipment of money from the Georgian queen to the monasteries of Antioch and Mount Athos.

According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy.

According to this theory, too many people with too much money chased too few goods.

According to economist William Stanley Jevons ( 1875 ), representative money arose because metal coins often were " variously clipped or depreciated " during use, but using representations for the value stored in banks ensured its worth.

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central KGB office in the Yasenevo area of Moscow, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov ( codenamed LEONID ), who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.