According to the memoirs of Silviu Brucan, former Romanian ambassador to the United Nations, Stalin told Gheorghiu-Dej that he had chosen him to lead Romania over Pauker, saying:

According to the testimony of Petre Roman, Brucan was among those who insisted that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu be executed and according to Dumitru Mazilu, he wanted that the 10-point programme read on national TV on 22 December to include a clause saying that Romania will honour its obligations under the soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact.

According to the recollections of PCR activist Silviu Brucan, the Iron Guardists, who supported Universul, attacked distributors of Adevărul and Dimineaţa, prompting young communist and socialists to organize themselves into vigilante groups and fight back, which in turn led to a series of street battles.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.

According to Senator Zachariah Chandler, he " disgraced himself and the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech.

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

According to some sources, the emir himself was behind Muhammad's fall, as well as Al-Mutarrif's death in 895.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

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 textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to Pasternak himself, Stalin declared, " Do not touch this cloud dweller.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to Cortés himself, on 27 February 1525 it was revealed to him by a citizen of Tenochtitlan named Mexicalcingo that Cuauhtémoc, Coanacoch ( the ruler of Texcoco ) and Tetlepanquetzal ( the ruler of Tlacopan ) were plotting his death.

According to Suetonius, Domitian wholly feigned his interest in arts and literature, and never bothered to acquaint himself with classic authors.

According to the legend the flag, Dannebrog, was given to the Danes from God himself, and from that day forward, it was the flag of Denmark and the Danish kings.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

According to Bio TV, Dave claims himself that people nicknamed his daughter " Wenda.

According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper.

According to Dijkstra himself, the EWDs started when he moved from the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam to the Eindhoven University of Technology ( then Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven ).

According to Diskin Clay, Epicurus himself established a custom of celebrating his birthday annually with common meals, befitting his stature as hero ctistes ( or founding hero ) of the Garden.

According to some sources, Sarkozy himself asked for Uribe to release FARC's " chancellor " Rodrigo Granda.

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

According to Hawks, a new set was in need of quickly being built when the studios set designer was unavailable and Hawks volunteered to do the job himself, much to Fairbank's satisfaction.

According to Hawks, Neilan did not show up to work one day and the resourceful Hawks offered to direct a scene himself, which Pickford agreed to allow.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to the community, their tragedy is comparable in scale and intensity only with the genocide faced by the indigenous people of the Americas.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

According to a 2003 House of Commons report, commuters faced a " daily trauma " and were forced to travel in " intolerable conditions ".

According to Jerzy Mazurek the native Polish-speaking population, like in other areas with Polish inhabitants, faced severe discrimination from Germanized local administration, in this climate first resistance defending the rights of rural population was formed ; according to Jerzy Mazurek usually teachers engaged in publishing Polish-language newspapers.

According to Colonel Kevin Benson, the tenth director of the school, " The Army and SAMS faced a test of battle and the new group of highly-educated planners appeared to have passed the test with flying colors.

One of the primary myths initially believed by communities facing environmental injustice is that the government is “ on our side .” According to Luke W. Cole, this myth is shared more widely among white Americans than among minorities, probably because minorities have historically faced several levels of governmental injustice.

According to numerous obituaries, the prince was faced upon his ascension with a treasury that was practically empty.

According to Treynor ’ s original " identity shift effect " hypothesis, the peer pressure process works in the following way: One's state of harmony is disrupted when faced with the threat of external conflict ( social rejection ) for failing to conform to a group standard.

According to director Eiji Aonuma, they were " faced with the very difficult question of just what kind of game could follow Ocarina of Time and its worldwide sales of seven million units ", and as a solution, came up with the three-day system to " make the game data more compact while still providing deep gameplay ".

According to Production Designer Elliot Scott, the biggest challenge he faced was building the forest Sarah and her party pass through on their way to Jareth's Castle.

According to Speer, Germany's position in the war went into decline during the siege of Stalingrad and the battle of El Alamein, when Hitler, faced with defeat in both battles, tried to hide himself from reality.

According to Haaest, Pedersen aka Hassel was actually put on trial in Denmark, but avoided a death sentence – a fate that many HIPO members faced.

According to the Jingde of the Lamp, after Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk from South India, left the court of the Liang emperor Wu in 527, he eventually found himself at the Shaolin Monastery, where he “ faced a wall for nine years, not speaking for the entire time ”.

According to Pahlavi researcher Aban Tahmasebi, most of the Iranian cities faced a new health life, and they could finally begin to feel their life was similar to life in western countries.

According to the traditional Muslim view, the Qiblah originally faced the Noble Sanctuary in Jerusalem.

According to a legend, the great gonfaloniere ( mayor ) Giovanni Baldesio of Cremona faced the emperor himself in a duel.

According to ibn Hisham, when Prophet Muhammad faced oppression from the Quraish clan, he sent a small group that included his daughter Ruqayya and her husband Uthman ibn Affan to Axum.

According to critics, the novel can be seen as a reflection of the religious conflict Hawthorne faced throughout his life.

According to these sources, Bardyllis lived a long time and was at an advanced age when he faced Philip II of Macedon.

According to his biography, in an exhibition game against the famous House of David touring team in 1928, at the age of 51, he pitched three innings as a favor to the local team, and struck out all nine batters he faced.

According to the site, the creators ' vision includes a " world where people treat psychoactives with respect and awareness ; where people work together to collect and share knowledge in ways that strengthen their understanding of themselves and provide insight into the complex choices faced by individuals and societies alike ".

According to English sources, Massasoit prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the almost certain starvation that the Pilgrims faced during the earliest years of the colony's establishment.

According to Edelman other nations subject to German expulsions didn't establish any comparable monuments, even as they faced harsher fate then Germans.

According to his own account, a parallel scandal occurred when an armed Bolshevik ship was captured in Romanian territorial waters ; Rakovsky, who indicated that the weapons on board were to be used in Batumi, faced allegations in the Romanian press that he was preparing a Dobrujan insurrection.