According to this account, Qi decided to sabotage Lu's reforms by sending 100 good horses and 80 beautiful dancing girls to the Duke of Lu.

According to the OECD none of 1991-93 reforms worked out as planned and the reforms had in many respects made the system worse.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to inscriptions describing the reforms of the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ( ca.

According to the historian David Childs, “ Brandt was anxious that his government should be a reforming administration and a number of reforms were embarked upon ”.

According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.

According to Zhao, Li Xiannian " hated me because I was implementing Deng Xiaoping's reforms, but since it was difficult for him to openly oppose Deng, he made me the target of the opposition.

According to Carter Golembe, the Banking Act of 1933 was the “ only important piece of legislation during the New Deal ’ s famous ‘ one hundred days ’ which was neither requested nor supported by the new administration .” In their books on banking events in 1933, Susan Eastabrook Kennedy and Helen Burns concluded that, although the 1933 Banking Act was not part of the New Deal, Roosevelt ultimately preferred it to no banking reform bill even thought it did not provide the more “ far reaching ” reforms ( Kennedy ) or “ fuller solution ” ( Burns ) he sought.

According to Arsuzi, a co-founder of the Ba ' th Party, the reforms would, " liberate 75 percent of the Syrian population and prepare them to be citizens qualified to participate in the building of the state ".

" According to Ruth Lea, writing 12 years later on the factors behind the subsequent performance of the British economy, Lamont had introduced path-breaking macro-economic reforms including inflation targeting and the first steps towards an independent Bank of England and had begun a programme of fiscal consolidation, which transformed the public finances.

According to legend, the Roman King Servius Tullius enacted a series of constitutional reforms in the 6th century BC.

According to British historian Gerald Brenan, " Spain needed radical reforms and he could only govern by the permission of the two most reactionary forces in the country — the Army and the Church.

According to Zhao, Li " hated me because I was implementing Deng Xiaoping's reforms, but since it was difficult for him to openly oppose Deng, he made me the target of his opposition.

According to former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, Ramos " has done nothing to reverse or slow down the implementation " of the harmful IMF-imposed structural reforms.

According to reforms of the late 1990s, some 500 hereditary nobles elect 92 Lords from among themselves to exercise voting rights in the House of Lords ; there are also some 600 Life Peers nominated by the Government and Opposition.

According to Rajoy, some of those reforms constitute concealed changes of the autonomous communities towards a confederation, endangering the integrity of the State

According to journalist Jim Rohwer, for example, " the Dengist reforms of 1979-1994 brought about probably the biggest single improvement in human welfare anywhere at any time.

According to Article 28 of the Chinese constitution, The state maintains public order and suppresses treasonable and other counter-revolutionary activities ; It penalizes actions that endanger public security and disrupt the socialist economy and other criminal activities, and punishes and reforms criminals.

According to the story in Kings, the reading of the book caused Josiah to embark on a series of religious reforms, and it has been suggested that it was written in order to validate this program.

According to the legend found in Plutarch's Lives and other sources, when Lycurgus became confident in his reforms, he announced that he would go to the oracle at Delphi to sacrifice to Apollo.

According to American non-governmental organization ( NGO ), Freedom House, these reforms consolidated Russia as a politically non-free, authoritarian state since the mid-2000s.

According to Pătrăşcanu, Moldavia and Wallachia had forsaken feudalism by the mid 18th century, maintaining instead a form of serfdom which had not been affected by the reforms of Hospodar Constantine Mavrocordatos.

According to Tymoshenko, the charges were fabricated by Kuchma's regime at the behest of oligarchs threatened by her efforts to root out corruption and institute market-based reforms.

According to current thinking, a first draft ( the Yahwist ) was probably written in the 6th century BCE during the Babylonian exile ; this was supplemented and completed as a post-Exilic final edition ( the Priestly source ) at the very end of the 6th century or during the 5th century, and further adjustments and minor revisions continued down to the end of the 4th century.

While small adjustments in the technique may be negligible now, over time a build up of these small changes could create “ considerable misunderstanding and distortions of the practice ” According to a movement webpage, Bevan Morris, the prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, is the " supreme guardian of Maharishi's purity of teaching and purity of purpose ".

According to this heuristic, people start with an implicitly suggested reference point ( the " anchor ") and make adjustments to it to reach their estimate.

According to a report by The New York Times on December 2, Rumsfeld wrote a classified dated November 6 that also said current U. S. strategy in Iraq is not working and requires major adjustments.

According to estimates from UNICEF, Uganda ’ s maternal mortality ratio, the annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100, 000 live births, stands at 435 after allowing for adjustments.

Atma ( Soul ) merges into " Parmatma " or the greatest soul. According to Bhagwadgita an " Atma " or soul never dies, what dies is the body only made of five elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky.

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

According to Damascius, during the persecution of the pagans at Alexandria in the late 480's, Ammonius made concessions to the Christian authorities so that he could continue his lectures.

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 the 2011 India census, Ajmer district has a population of 2, 584, 913, which was made up of 1, 325, 911 males and 1, 259, 002 females.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

According to Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that he had previously rejected for home video release and had been prepared without his knowledge or consent.

According to Coogan, Hosea falls under a unique genre called “ covenant lawsuit ” where God accuses Israel of breaking their previously made agreement.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to Allende's KGB file, Allende " was made to understand the necessity of reorganising Chile's army and intelligence services, and of setting up a relationship between Chile's and the USSR's intelligence services ".

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances.

According to Pliny the Elder in Achaea, the garland worn by the winners of the sacred Nemean Games was also made of celery.

According to E. K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were " egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic ".

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to Josephus, power made Caligula incredibly conceited and led him to think he was a god.

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to Bruce Lincoln, the philosophes " made irrationality the hallmark of myth and constituted philosophy — rather than the Christian kerygma — as the antidote for mythic discourse.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

According to Tibor R. Machan, " Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals.

' According to the Evil Dead DVD commentary, he would often return home after a night of shooting in the back of a pick-up truck, as he was usually covered in fake blood made from a mixture of corn syrup, food coloring, and non-dairy coffee creamer.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth.

According to Hoxha, Josip Broz Tito had agreed that " Kosovo was Albanian " but that Serbian opposition made transfer an unwise option.

According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).