According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to his own statement, he was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.

" According to his suggestion, the Bolshevik party was renamed the Communist Party of Soviet Union.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to The New York Times the system is called " shuanggui " and is greatly feared by corrupt party functionaries.

According to party rules, the Central Committee was to convene at least twice a year to discuss political matters ( but not matters relating to military policy ).

According to another opinion, he did not join the first party so as not to compete, even involuntarily, with Jeshua ben Jozadak for the office of chief priest.

According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1, 300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

According to Edmond Ludlow, " The Wallingford House party, as if infatuated by a superior power to procure their own destruction, continued obstinately to oppose the Parliament, and fixed in their resolution to call another ( that is a reformed Parliament more agreeable to their interests ).

According to Ben Pimlott, his appointment was intended to please the left of the party and the Trade Unions.

According to Soviet advisors ( in 1987 ), a bitter debate within the party had broken out between those who advocated the islamisation of the party and those who wanted to defend the gains of the Saur Revolution.

According to the party, such a group " dissolves collective stress, as indicated by significant reductions in crime, unemployment, sickness, and accidents, and improved economic indicators and quality of life ".

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), states are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, if they ratify at least two of the five protocols.

According to American sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, after Leonid Brezhnev's accession to power in October 1964, the party considerably expanded its appointment authority.

" According to Abdul, the man at the party argued with her, grabbed her by the arm and threw her against a wall ," Vernon said.

Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." According to Cornwell, a worrying impression of stereotypical anti-Semitic contempt is discernible in the ' catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness ' and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".

According to Balakrishna " as long as the Sena confined its activities to the Mumbai-Thane belt, Congress leaders like Murli Deora, who headed the party unit in Mumbai for two decades, never confronted the Sena ".

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince Vijaya and his party of seven hundred followers who arrived on the island in 543 BCE.

According to biographers, Saddam never forgot the tensions within the first Ba ' athist government, which formed the basis for his measures to promote Ba ' ath party unity as well as his resolve to maintain power and programs to ensure social stability.

According to statute, Qing society was divided into relatively closed estates, of which in most general terms there were five.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

According to medieval statute, the prison was to be managed by two annually elected Sheriffs, who in turn would sublet the administration of the prison to private " gaolers ", or " Keepers ", for a price.

According to its statute, the research, education, public activities and relations among its members is carried out based on the following principles:

According to the rules of ordynacja, which became a statute approved by the Sejm

According to the legislative history of the 1989 amendment to the POW Medal statute, internees were intended beneficiaries of the POW Medal so long as they were treated comparably to POWs during periods of armed conflict.

According to Article 9 of Law No. 2893, a statute including the fundamentals of the implementation was also published.

According to this statute, a software engineering firm cannot outsource work to a software engineering consultant, without hiring the consultant as an employee.

According to a statute adopted in 1957, the flag of the governor of Oklahoma consists of a forest green field, fringed in gold, charged with the state seal surrounded by a pentagram of five white stars.

According to Guatemalan labour law, domestic work is “ subject neither to a working time statute nor to regulations on the maximum number of working hours in a day ”.

According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a " forced disappearance " qualifies as a crime against humanity and, thus, is not subject to a statute of limitations.

According to their statute, they are striving to achieve " full national and social freedom in and for the Basque Country ".

According to the provisions of this statute, upon the avoidance of any episcopal see, the dean and chapter of the cathedral church are to certify the vacancy of the see to the crown, and to pray that they may be allowed to proceed to a new election.

According to Edgar Sentell, a retired senior vice-president and general counsel of Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, almost all the states recognize the presumption of death, by statute or judicial recognition of the common law rule.

According to the text of the statute, the " power to review a sentence for reasonableness arises only when the sentencing court has departed from the applicable guideline range.

According to its founding statute, the Tribunal has a set of 21 serving judges from a variety of states parties in three primary bodies:

According to The Living Constitution, 3rd Revised Ediiton 1995, ( Saul K. Padover, Revised by Jacob W. Landynski ) the other issue involved was whether a federal court could order a local government to raise taxes above the state statute amount to cover the cost of removing the " vestiges of discrimination ".

According to the plain meaning rule, absent a contrary definition within the statute, words must be given their plain, ordinary and literal meaning.

According to the Biennale's official website, this hiatus was a result of the 1968 Lion being awarded to the radically experimental Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos ; the website says that the awards " still had a statute dating back to the fascist era and could not side-step the general political climate.

According to Jacob Stein's treatise on asset protection, common provisions enacted among some, but not all, of these countries are: ( i ) there is no recognition of foreign judgments with respect to trusts ; ( ii ) there is a very short statute of limitations on fraudulent transfers ; ( iii ) to establish a fraudulent transfer the creditor must show that the debtor was insolvent, and must establish the debtor's intent to " hinder, delay or defraud " beyond a reasonable doubt ; ( iv ) the anti-duress provisions are incorporated into the statutes ; and ( v ) spendthrift protection is extended to self-settled trusts.

According to Federalist No. 78, the federal courts have a duty to interpret and apply the Constitution, and to disregard any statute that is inconsistent with the Constitution: