According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

According to Scorsese it was Brian De Palma who introduced him to Schrader.

According to author Brian Carroll, Lyons had been underestimated when he assumed office in 1932 and as leader he demonstrated: " a combination of honesty, native shrewdness, tact, administrative ability, common sense, good luck and good humour that kept him in the job longer than any previous Prime Minister except Hughes ".

According to Stuart Walton and Brian Glover, vermouth " is as far removed from the natural produce of the vine as it is possible for a fortified wine to get.

According to Brian Lapping, this was the first step ever taken towards directing help to areas with special needs, “ the reversal of the former position under which ministers had passed the burden of social help measures in housing, education and health to local authorities without passing them any money .”

According to Brian Lapping, this would have been Wilson ’ s largest reform of social security, had it been carried out.

" According to Brian Pennington, Ward's book " became a centerpiece in the British construction of Hinduism and in the political and economic domination of the subcontinent.

According to Brian A. Sparkes " The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica ... however, we have detailed images of the episode, 150 years earlier, dated to around 400 BC.

According to Smart's October 1, 2009 US federal court testimony, after Smart had gone to bed on June 4, 2002, a man Smart identified as Brian Mitchell had entered her bedroom and had " placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck.

According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, " Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100, 000, fans to show up whenever arrived in town.

According to Brian Walker, director of Oxfam, " a solidarity and compassion surged across our nation " from the broadcast of Year Zero.

According to Brian Copenhaver, " Kepler accused Fludd of being a theosophist, and Kepler was right ".

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, Davis ranks 23rd in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty.

According to the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is born on the planet Giedi Prime, under the Harkonnen Regime.

According to Brian McFarlane, in The Encyclopedia of British Film, hosted by British Film Institute's Screenonline, Finch " did not emerge unscathed from a life of well-publicised hell-raising, and several biographies chronicle the affairs and the booze, but a serious appraisal of a great actor remains to be written.

According to the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud, Labyrinth was first discussed between himself and director Jim Henson during a limousine ride on the way back from a special screening of their 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal.

According to Brian Harvey's book Russia In Space, there was also a real Soviet communications ship called the Vladislav Volkov, but it was sold by the Russian government following the fall of the USSR.

According to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Imperial House Corrino is founded by Viceroy Faykan Butler, the grandson of Xavier Harkonnen and grandnephew of Serena Butler.

According to the New York Post, someone in the social environment of Megan has told: " Megan has become a great stepmom, and Brian knows she'll be wonderful with the baby.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

According to Brian Eno, once a member of Roxy Music, Ladytron are " the best of English pop music ".

According to Brian Leiter's recent law school rankings ( an alternative to the U. S. News survey ), GW ranks 12th in the nation for Supreme Court Clerkship Placement ( 2000 – 2008 ), 19th for student numerical quality, and 18th for law faculties with the most “ scholarly impact ” as measured by citations during roughly the past five years.

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, UCLA ranks 15th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty during the years 2005 – 2009.

According to Brian Leiter's study of Most Cited Law Professors By Specialty 2000-2007, Garth's scholarship in Law and Social Science has been cited at least 550 times.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to Arkansas state and Federal law, a seriously mentally impaired inmate cannot be executed.

According to Blake, Disraeli believed in upholding Britain's greatness through a tough, " no nonsense " foreign policy that put Britain's interests above the " moral law " that advocated emancipation of small nations.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

* Entropic forces: According to the second law of thermodynamics, a system progresses to a state in which entropy is maximized.

According to Ampère's circuital law | Ampère's law, an electric current produces a magnetic field.

According to article 37, paragraph 4 of Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms people who do not speak Czech have the right to get an interpreter in a court of law.

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 this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

According to international law a blockade is an act of war, but the Kennedy administration did not think that the USSR would be provoked to attack by a mere blockade.

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

According to the prevalent view, Montesquieu is regarded as the ' father ' of comparative law.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to Joseph McCabe, the council was attended by roughly 29 cardinals, 100 " learned doctors of law and divinity ," 134 abbots, and 183 bishops and archbishops.

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 Lenz's law, the field of these electrons will oppose the magnetic field changes provided by the applied field.

According to the Greek nationality law, Greeks born abroad may transmit citizenship to their children from generation to generation indefinitely.

According to Avogadro ’ s law this volume is same for all ideal gases and if we consider ‘ n ’ moles of an ideal gas at STP, then the equation becomes