According to his father, he chose to focus on country music in the early 1980s, after singers George Strait and Reba McEntire moved the genre back toward the more traditional ; in the style kept alive by George Jones and Merle Haggard.

According to Haggard, he wrote the final scene of She's demise whilst waiting for his literary agent, A. P. Watt, to return to his offices.

According to The Literary World " Mr. Rider Haggard has made for himself a new field in fiction ".

According to Rolling Stone magazine, Ray Benson " didn't just enlist the obvious Wills fans " in this tribute album to Bob Wills like Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett.

According to Haggard, in November 1984, when he was an associate pastor of Bethany World Prayer Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his confidant and mentor Danny Ost, a missionary to Mexico City, had a vision of Haggard founding his church in Colorado Springs.

According to Peter Heather, Theodoric's former governor Theudis was implicated in Amalaric's murder, " and was certainly its prime beneficiary.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to philosopher Helga Kuhse, Singer is " almost certainly the best-known and most widely read of all contemporary philosophers ".

According to Roman tradition, Hannibal had been made to swear by his father never to be a friend of Rome, and he certainly did not take a conciliatory attitude when the Romans berated him for crossing the river Iberus ( Ebro ) which Carthage was bound by treaty not to cross.

According to Dawkins, evolution certainly occurred but " probably gradually " elsewhere.

According to this approach, it is not necessary to assign any value to the probability of a hypothesis, although one must certainly take into account the probability of the data given the hypothesis, or given a competing hypothesis, when deciding whether to accept or to reject.

According to Eric Ives, she was certainly of more noble birth

According to romantic folk etymology, Charing derives from French chère reine ( dear queen ), but the name was certainly used in the contemporary royal accounting records for the costs of constructing the cross.

According to an 1849 description of what were then called the Big Meadows, " This marsh for three miles is certainly the liveliest place that one could witness in a lifetime.

According to analysis, magpies do not form the monophyletic group they are traditionally believed to be — a long tail has certainly elongated ( or shortened ) independently in multiple lineages of corvid birds.

According to Michael, health care was available in Brazil and he had many friends and supporters who would certainly have contributed to any such expenses.

According to the modern, quantum-mechanical understanding of the hydrogen atom, the average distance between electron and proton is ≈ 1. 5a < sub > 0 </ sub >,< ref > Modern physics, by Serway, Moses, Moyer, Example 8. 9, p284 The value 1. 5a < sub > 0 </ sub > is approximate, not exact, because it neglects reduced mass, fine structure effects ( such as relativistic corrections ), and other such small effects .</ ref > somewhat different than the value in the Bohr model (≈ a < sub > 0 </ sub >), but certainly the same order of magnitude.

According to experts on the writing of Vladimir Nabokov, this species almost certainly inspired the waxwing mentioned prominently in his novel Pale Fire.

According to Robert H. Hewsen, these tribes were " certainly not of Armenian origin ", and " although certain Iranian peoples must have settled here during the long period of Persian and Median rule, most of the natives were not even Indo-Europeans.

According to Paldiel, when Boegner argued that the children would almost certainly die, Laval replied " not one child must remain in France ".

However, in the study of the instruction that he revised less than two years later he stated: " According to the 1922 and 1962 documents, accusers and witnesses are bound by the secrecy obligation during and after the process but certainly not prior to the initiation of the process.

According to neo-classical economics, the conception of economics as altogether deductive is certainly erroneous.

According to Michael J. Cook, " Since ' winning ' a debate could well jeopardize the security of the Jewish community at large, political considerations certainly entered into what Jewish disputants publicly said or refrained from saying.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term mullet was " apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by U. S. hip-hop group the Beastie Boys ",

According to Kristof, this was an " appalling mistake " since " the Iranian proposal was promising and certainly should have been followed up.

According to Associate Professor Henry E. Hale of Harvard University, one thing that remains unclear about the " FSB did it " theory: If the motive was to get an FSB-friendly man installed as president, why would the FSB have preferred Putin, a little-known " upstart " who had leapt to the post of FSB director through outside political channels, to Primakov, who was certainly senior in stature and pedigree and who was also widely reputed to have a KGB past?

According to Woodrow Wyatt, who helped persuade Thatcher to ensure this, the Commission " almost certainly would have blocked it.

According to Ringer, Striggio's original ending was almost certainly used at the opera's premiere, but there is no doubt that Monteverdi believed the revised ending was aesthetically correct.

According to the RKD, he is registered in Haarlem in 1517 where he perhaps collaborated with his contemporary Maarten van Heemskerck, who like him, had been born close to Alkmaar ( they certainly collaborated in Haarlem in 1528 ).

According to this view, it is not considered to be read as a prophecy of western political history or of an eschatological future.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to the 4th century Latin writer Servius, a fourth set of Etruscan books existed, dealing with animal gods, but it is unlikely that any scholar living in the 4th century could have read Etruscan.

According to a 1549 letters of F. Balthasar Gago in Goa, it was the only book that Francis read or studied.

According to Lucian, Herodotus took his finished work straight from Asia Minor to the Olympic Games and read the entire Histories to the assembled spectators in one sitting, receiving rapturous applause at the end of it.

According to his memoirs, before arriving in California he dined in Washington with President Millard Fillmore and his family, but Eric Cline says that he didn't attend but simply read about it in the papers.

According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.

According to Van Voorst, scholars who support the negative reconstruction contend that the reference read something like " source of further trouble in Jesus a wise man " and that it stated " he was the so-called Christ ".

According to the Daily Express of April 24, 1934, Leni Riefenstahl had read Mein Kampf during the making of her film The Blue Light.

According to La Marle's reading of Linear A, which have been heavily criticised as arbitrary we should read mwi-nu ro-ja ( Minos the king ) on a Linear A tablet.

According to legend, he was so devoted to his work that he wore a miner's headlamp while commuting on the bus so that he could read company prospectuses.

According to one Rand biographer, most people first read Rand's works in their " formative years.

According to the legend, Meridiana ( or the bronze head ) told Gerbert that if he should ever read a mass in Jerusalem, the Devil would come for him.

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

According to Gould the most influential political books he read were C. Wright Mills ' The Power Elite and the political writings of Noam Chomsky.

According to Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, it is read in its entirety on Shabbat that falls during the intermediate days of Passover ( or on the seventh or eighth day if it happens to be Shabbat ).

According to the book DisneyWar, Disney's David Vogel read Shyamalan's speculative script and instantly loved it.

According to one legal style manual, a sample citation would be " Privacy Act of 1974, ( 2006 )", read aloud as " Title five, United States Code, section five fifty-two A " or simply " five USC five fifty-two A.

According to the Admiralty regulations, " no person shall be appointed to any station in which he is to have charge of stores, unless he can read and write, and is sufficiently skilled in arithmetic to keep an account of them correctly ".

According to legend, the Belgian national anthem was written in September 1830, during the Belgian Revolution, by a young revolutionary called " Jenneval ", who read the lyrics during a meeting at the Aigle d ' Or café.

According to the documentary Take That: For the Record, his mother read an advertisement seeking members for a new boy band and suggested that he try out for the group.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to his chaplain and biographer, Nicholas Bernard, the elder brother was taught to read by two blind, spinster aunts.

According to Pierre-Yves Lambert, a specialist of the Gaulish language, Sequana retains QV, that is unusual in Gaulish, which is normally a P-Celtic language, but he compares with the month name EQVOS, read on the Coligny Calendar.