Its administration in Southern Iraq has been criticized as corrupt and as " theocracy mixed with thuggery " According to a 2005 report by journalist Doug Ireland, the Badr Organization has been involved in many incidents of attacking and killing gays in Iraq.

According to Chairman Steve Van Andel and President Doug DeVos, " We are going through a global transformation of our business ; this includes rethinking our global approach to products, training, brands, and how we operate in all the countries in which Alticor operates.

According to school district Treasurer Doug Beeman, revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, exceeded expenditures as the school system continues to manage the resources provided by the community.

According to frontman Doug Pinnick, while longtime King's X producer Sam Taylor had a big influence on the band's sound, he never captured the heaviness of their live performance in the studio.

According to author Doug Stokes, one of the earlier versions of the plan called for an estimated 55 per cent military aid and 45 percent developmental aid.

According to Iron Maiden's The Early Days DVD, he was introduced to the band by drummer Doug Sampson, an old friend of Harris ' from his days in the band ' Smiler '.

According to Doug Smith's As Many Liars ( a literary overview of the scandal ), Evans was able to confirm this information through a discussion with Allan Aitken, a PC organizer in the region ( who had previously been among Evans's personal friends ).

According to Brewers GM Doug Melvin, Randolph was asked to be Macha's bench coach because Randolph had experience managing against National League teams, versus Macha's American League experience.

According to programmer Doug Church, Blackley's concept of the game was not fully developed, but he clearly expressed his thoughts and motivated the team.

According to Doug Church, the pressure for Flight Unlimited to succeed meant that the concurrently-developed System Shock, which was not self-published, received little attention from the company's management.

According to an essay by Doug Cummings in the DVD release of the landmark The Holy Mountain ( 1926 ), Fanck saw his first motion picture in 1913, and after serving in World War I, purchased a rare Ernemann slow-motion camera, taught himself to shoot on location during an expedition to climb the Jungfrau, taught himself to edit on his mother's kitchen table, and distributed the finished product himself.

According to Mary Pickford's biography Doug and Mary,

According to Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, the earliest incarnation of Pinhead appeared in Hunters in the Snow, an original 1973 play with Doug Bradley in the role of the Dutchman, an undead inquisitor and torturer.

According to project leader Doug Church, the team's " biggest advantage " was the presence of four dedicated designers ; in contrast, each member of the original game's team had assumed multiple roles.

According to Doug Martindale, Orlikow “ never really retired ” from politics in that Orlikow was always researching various issues and providing the information he gathered to various Manitoba NDP MLAs and MPs.

# According to Doug Yule in his liner notes to the Final V. U. 1971 – 1973 box set ( 2001 ).

According to frontman Doug Pinnick, after the concert, a distressed Jerry Gaskill locked himself in a room, thinking he may have ruined the band's career.

According to Doug, Mercury Records was initially reluctant to release the song as a single: " label thought it was too regional, and that no one outside the area would get it, but what they didn't see, was the reaction we got to it every night that we played it in front of a crowd, and it didn't matter where we were playing either.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract ( Hebrew: ketubah ) and her marriage ( nissu ' in ) was preceded by a formal betrothal ( erusin ), neither being the case for a concubine.

According to TFI, as a result of Flirty Fishing, " over 100, 000 received God's gift of salvation through Jesus, and some chose to live the life of a disciple and missionary ".

According to some sources, he received the principality of Mellenburg in exchange.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

According to First Facts, it states that the " gas mask resembling the modern type was patented by Lewis Phectic Haslett of Louisville, Kentucky who received a patent on June 12, 1849.

According to reports released in February 2010, Hezbollah received $ 400 million dollars from Iran.

According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.

According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

According to German author Andreas Kossert Polish parties were financed and aided by the Polish government in Warsaw, and remained splintergroups without any political influence, e. g. in the 1932 elections the Polish Party received 147 votes in Masuria proper.

According to the " Mad Magazine Contributor Appearances " website, more than 700 contributors have received bylines in at least one issue of Mad, but fewer than three dozen of those have contributed to 100 issues or more.

According to former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, when the President heard of this treatment, he demanded — and eventually received — Regan's resignation.

According to gate control theory of pain, this area can also reduce pain when non-painful stimuli are received in conjunction with nociception.

According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea.

According to Ali ibn al-Athir, a Kurdish historian of the 12th century, Charlemagne received the envoys of Sulayman al-Arabi, Husayn, and Abu Taur at the Diet of Paderborn in 777.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

According to The Bible Unearthed, archaeological evidence suggests that the kingdom of Israel at the time of Solomon was little more than a small city state, and so it is implausible that Solomon received tribute as large as 666 talents of gold per year.

According to this view, Saul is only a weak branch ( Gen. Rashi 25: 3 ), owing his kingship not to his own merits, but rather to his grandfather, who had been accustomed to light the streets for those who went to the bet ha-midrash, and had received as his reward the promise that one of his grandsons should sit upon the throne ( Lev.

" According to the 11 monthly bulletins of 1987 ( July being the only month without an issue ), the CPDH claims to have received information on 1, 236 abuses of all types.

According to the biblical etymology, the city received the name " Babel ", from the Hebrew word " balal ", meaning to jumble.

According to Ballot Access News, in 2010 the Constitution Party received the third highest gubernatorial vote total, with 872, 498 votes.

According to the commentators, Virgil received his first education when he was five years old and he later went to Cremona, Milan, and finally Rome to study rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy.