According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

According to one scholar, the Epic of Atrahasis tablet III iv, lines 6 – 9 identifies the flood as a local river flood: " Like dragonflies they bodies have filled the river.

According to Morrissey, his hit single " Everyday Is Like Sunday " was inspired by Borth.

According to the book Attila and the Nomad Hordes, " Like the Kimaks they set up many carved wooden funerary statues surrounded by simple stone balbal monoliths.

According to The Guardian, " Like a rather special stock cube, a spoonful can work wonders in mashed potato, risotto, or with sauteed garlic mushrooms or scrambled eggs.

According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is " the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing " ( in An Exposition of Constructivism: Why Some Like it Radical, 1990 ) and " the most prolific constructivist in our century " ( in Aspects of Radical Constructivism, 1996 ).

According to Ruffin, " Like many cultured people of the day, considered native American music rather crude ", and like many American artists and musicians of that era, chose to " Europeanize " his name, choosing to use the name George Friederich Wurzel ( German for Root ), while Crosby's name was sometimes omitted altogether.

According to some accounts, Reis insisted that Drive Like Jehu be signed along with Rocket from the Crypt in a package deal.

According to Huey, the band was influential to the development of emo even though the style's later sound was quite different from Drive Like Jehu's: " The term ' emo ' hadn't yet come into wider use, and while Drive Like Jehu didn't much resemble the sound that word would later come to signify, they exerted a powerful pull on its development.

According to Rocket Science's MySpace page, the band's 2008 album Different Like You was self-funded.

According to the Encyclopædia Iranica: " Like most present-day tribal confederacies in Persia, the Il-e Qašqāʾi is a conglomeration of clans of different ethnic origins, Lori, Kurdish, Arab and Turkic.

According to Bob Geldof he penned the Boomtown Rats hit song, " I Don't Like Mondays " in the WRAS office after reading a telex report of the schoolyard shooting on which the song is based.

According to author, professor, and director of the cinema department at San Francisco State University Daniel Leonard Bernardi in his book, Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future: " Like the Federation, the Comms have full command of the English language ( although they speak with a homogenized ' Asian ' accent ).

According to songwriter Neil Finn, the Crowded House song " People Are Like Suns ", from Time on Earth ( 2007 ), begins with lyrics inspired by the beginning of Saturday, stating "... when I wrote it, I was reading Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, which begins with a man on his balcony watching his plane go down, so the first lines borrow something from that image.

Like the title character in The World According to Garp and Irving himself, Jack finds a talent for wrestling and an extended family that aids and hinders him through his trials as a young man coming of age, including his sexual awakening and abuse as an adolescent.

According to author Debbi Voller, " Like a Virgin " gave rise to the icon Madonna.

According to Lucy O ' Brien in her book Madonna: Like an Icon, the video was brought together after a " huge casting call " in Los Angeles where hundreds of different sorts of dancers appeared.

According to the book Madonna: Like an Icon by Lucy O ' Brien, Madonna wanted to " make an impact " on the soul musical scene, and started working with prominent producers from the R & B market.

According to Marius De Vries as recorded by Lucy O ' Brien in her book Madonna: Like an Icon, one of the song's writers, the track's architecture is " distinctly Björkian " and the Icelandic singer " has such a particular and idiosyncratic approach to the construction of lyrics and phrasing ".

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to traditional texts, some form of the calendar has been in use for almost five millennia.

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

According to his own desire his remains were carried to Toledo, where Henry of Castile had them to be entombed with almost royal honours.

According to Canadian broadcaster, CTV, " IKEA's publications have developed an almost cult-like following online.

According to Frances FitzGerald in an April 1987 New Yorker article, " They epitomized the excesses of the 1980s ; the greed, the love of glitz, and the shamelessness ; which in their case was so pure as to almost amount to a kind of innocence ".

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

According to Norman Davies, almost ½ of them were dead by July 1940.

According to the 1999 census, there are 610, 000 native speakers ( almost all of whom are also native French speakers ) and perhaps another million persons with some exposure to the language.

According to music journalist Ben Myers, Bad Religion " layered their pissed off, politicized sound with the smoothest of harmonies "; Descendents " wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys – inspired songs about girls and food and being young ( ish )".

According to the data of the China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group, in 2004 China's manufacturers sold 7. 5 million electric bicycles nationwide, which was almost twice 2003 sales ; domestic sales reached 10 million in 2005, and 16 to 18 million in 2006.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to the DSM, " Paraphilias are almost never diagnosed in females ," but some case studies of females with paraphilias have been published.

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

According to C. Stace, " slaves in Plautus account for almost twice as much monologue as any other character ... this is a significant statistic ; most of the monologues being, as they are, for purposes of humor, moralizing, or exposition of some kind, we can now begin to see the true nature of the slave's importance.

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 Josep Puig, the Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars which almost touched one another and appeared to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on 500 AH ( 1106 / 1107 AD ) as evidence.

According to Cassius Dio, however, after 197 Severus fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who came to have almost total control of most branches of the imperial administration.

According to Maimonides ( whose life began almost a hundred years after the end of the Gaonic era ), all Jewish communities during the Gaonic era formally accepted the Babylonian Talmud as binding upon themselves, and modern Jewish practice follows the Babylonian Talmud's conclusions on all areas in which the two Talmuds conflict.

According to Horace Walpole, the members ' " practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed ; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits.

" According to him, until the 1760s, a " man's house was even less of a legal castle in America than in England " as the authorities possessed almost unlimited power and little oversight.

According to the Moroccan government, in 1958 the Moroccan Army of Liberation fought Spanish colonizers and almost liberated what was then Spanish Sahara.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.