According to Hu Ping, " Falun Gong deals only with purifying the individual through exercise, and does not touch on social or national concerns.

According to Richard Madsen, Chinese scientists with doctorates from prestigious American universities who practice Falun Gong claim that modern physics ( for example, superstring theory ) and biology ( specifically the pineal gland's function ) provide a scientific basis for their beliefs.

According to David Ownby, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, Li became an " instant star of the qigong movement ", and Falun Gong was embraced by the government as an effective means of lowering health care costs, promoting Chinese culture, and improving public morality.

According to Johnson, the campaign against Falun Gong extends to many aspects of society, including the media apparatus, police force, military, education system, and workplaces.

According to Zhao, Falun Gong practitioners have established a " resistance identity "— one that stands against prevailing pursuits of wealth, power, scientific rationality, and " the entire value system associated with China's project of modernization.

According to James Tong, the regime aimed at both coercive dissolution of the Falun Gong denomination and " transformation " of the practitioners.

According to Bejesky, the majority of long-term Falun Gong detainees are processed administratively through this system instead of the criminal justice system.

According to Amnesty International, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong on 22 July 1999 and launched a massive propaganda campaign.

According to John Powers and Meg Y. M. Lee, because the Falun Gong was categorized in the popular perception as an " apolitical, qigong exercise club ," it was not seen as a threat to the government.

According to Zhao, through The Epoch Times it can be discerned how Falun Gong is building a " de facto media alliance " with China's democracy movements in exile, as demonstrated by its frequent printing of articles by prominent overseas Chinese critics of the PRC government.

According to International Advocates for Justice, Falun Gong has filed the largest number of human rights lawsuits in the 21st century and the charges are among the most severe international crimes defined by international criminal laws.

According to Perry Link, pressure on Western institutions also takes more subtle forms, including academic self-censorship, whereby research on Falun Gong could result in a denial of visa for fieldwork in China ; or exclusion and discrimination from business and community groups who have connections with China and fear angering the Communist Party.

According to some China analysts, Li upset Jiang by disagreeing with the then-President's decision to suppress the Falun Gong movement.

According to Falun Gong groups, Li's early success was recognized at the 1992 and 1993 Beijing Oriental Health Expos.

According to Quick's sister he never left Falun at the time of this murder.

According to the Wall Street Journal, NTD is, along with The Epoch Times and Sound of Hope radio station, part of a media empire founded by and affiliated with Falun Gong practitioners.

According to Stephen O ' Leary of the University of Southern California, the Falun Gong's Internet awareness was an important factor in its ability to organize unauthorized demonstrations in the People's Republic of China.

According to Ming Xia, political science professor at the College of Staten Island, The Epoch Times represents part of Falun Gong's effort to expand to non-practitioners, and " is part of the Falun Gong strategy to embed itself into the large civil society for influence and legitimacy "

According to a spokesperson from China's National Agency for Religious Affairs, as well as Pastor Gao Ying from the China Christian Council, Gong Shengliang has incited followers to beat up people who refused to join his religious group, and has used sulfuric acid to disfigure disobedient followers.

According to Chinese legend, the monk Ji Gong is a reincarnation of Mahākāśyapa ( known as the Taming Dragon arhat ).

According to Der Spiegel, the case demonstrated “ how important fighting Gong is to the government ,” and “ points to the extremely offensive approach that is sometimes being taken by the Chinese intelligence agencies .”

According to his later statement, China's head badminton coach Li Yongbo instructed Gong's semifinal opponent, teammate Ye Zhaoying, to " throw " the match against her, on his assumption that Gong would have the better chance to defeat Denmark's Camilla Martin in the final.

According to the Book of Later Han, during the reign of the Emperor Shun of Han ( 125 – 144 ), Gan Ji's disciples Gong Chong submitted the Taiping Qingling Shu to the emperor.

According to Dr. Robert J. Brym and Dr. Rhonda L. Lenton, users of online games, websites, and other virtual communities are encouraged to conceal their identities and learn things about themselves that they never knew before.

According to author Ethan Gutmann, Cisco and other telecommunications equipment providers supplied the Chinese government with surveillance and Internet infrastructure equipment that is used to block Internet websites and track Chinese on-line activities.

According to the information on Microsoft's and the Unicode Consortium's websites, positions 81, 8D, 8F, 90, and 9D are unused, however the Windows API maps these to the corresponding C1 control codes.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cyberextortionists are increasingly attacking corporate websites and networks, crippling their ability to operate and demanding payments to restore their service.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 96 % of 18-29 year olds and three-quarters ( 75 %) of teens now own a cell phone, 88 % of whom text, with 73 % of wired American teens using social networking websites, a significant increase from previous years.

According to their websites, the following groups are affiliated as of September 2012:

According to various industry websites ( such as www. Hollywood. com ), The Big Chill was somewhat similar in its basic " friends reuniting to reminisce about the good old days " premise to John Sayles ' earlier independent movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, but has several major story and character differences.

According to ONI, with the sophisticated system of internet filtering developed by Iran, the websites Blogger and Persianblog are often blocked.

According to several genealogy websites, it literally means " servant of Christ.

According to a study done by CyLab Privacy Interest Group at Carnegie Mellon University only 15 % of the top 5, 000 websites incorporate P3P.

* According to MyRide. com reliability survey, The MyRide Reliability Ratings are collected from visitors and past customers of Autobytel Inc .' s websites ( Autobytel. com, Autoweb. com and CarSmart. com ) who own vehicles from model year 2001 and newer via an online survey conducted by an independent third party.

According to the websites of both organisations, " The Libertarian Alliance is a non-partisan group fighting statism in all its forms and working for the creation of a truly free society.

According to Michael Steel, press secretary for Republican Party House leader John Boehner, Republican aides " engage with liberal websites like The Huffington Post if for no other reason than they drive a lot of cable coverage.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

According to many scholars it only comprises a small number of monosyllabic lexical roots, including the personal pronouns and a few other deictic and auxiliary items.

According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to a number of scholars, the Christ story contains mythical themes such as descent to the underworld, the heroic monomyth, and the " dying god " ( see section below on " mythical themes and types ").

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to the Scientology journal The Auditor, the total number of " Clears " as of May 2006 stands at 50, 311.

According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, " The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.

According to Suetonius, a number of omens had foretold Domitian's death.

According to Belloc, the distributive state ( the state which has implemented distributism ) contains " an agglomeration of families of varying wealth, but by far the greater number of owners of the means of production.

According to hedonistic utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.

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 an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

According to Technorati, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35. 3 million blogs. This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential, since blogs are a recent innovation.

According to reputable license plate collectors, a number of " Johnston Atoll license plates " were created as souvenirs, and have even been sold on-line to collectors, but they were not officially issued.