According to Hislop, Semiramis was an exceedingly beautiful woman, who gave birth to a son named Tammuz, was instrumental as the queen, and wife of Nimrod the founder of Babylon, and its religion, complete with a pseudo-Virgin Birth.

According to the legend as related by Diodorus, Semiramis was of noble parents, the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria and a mortal.

According to the legend, Semiramis had heard about the fame of the handsome Armenian king Ara, and she lusted after his image.

* November – According to tradition, William Webb Ellis invents the sport of Rugby football at Rugby School in England.

According to some " evolutionistic " theories of religion, especially that of Edward Burnett Tylor, cultures naturally progress from animism and polytheism to monotheism.

According to the ahadith, he came to the Prophet and told him that his parents were killed right in front of him and he was forced to commit polytheism ( shirk ) under torture of the pagans.

According to the natives of Peru, who by this time had observed the Spanish lust for gold, the territories of Chile had abundances of gold which would justify any effort.

According to one American report, Mubarak views Iran as the primary long-term challenge facing Egypt, and an Egyptian official said that Iran is running agents inside Egypt in an effort to subvert the Egyptian regime.

According to the compendium of Charaka, the Charakasamhitā, health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort.

According to Campbell's Model of The Determinants of Job Performance, job performance is a result of the interaction between declarative knowledge ( knowledge of facts or things ), procedural knowledge ( knowledge of what needs to be done and how to do it ), and motivation ( reflective of an employee's choices regarding whether to expend effort, the level of effort to expend, and whether to persist with the level of effort chosen ).

According to Heinsohn and Steiger's theory, the state persecuted the midwives as witches in an effort to repopulate the European continent which had suffered severe loss of manpower as a result of the bubonic plague which had swept over the continent in waves, starting in 1348.

* According to the first theory the document was an effort to transform the existing missionary bishopric into a regular organization of the Catholic Church, that would cover all of Mieszko's state.

According to the discourses in the Pali and Chinese canons, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness are used as the support and requisite conditions for the practice of right concentration.

According to the preface to the Code, " From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation.

According to Morrow, in spite of the CTW Model's effectiveness in creating a popular show, commercial television " made only a limited effort to emulate CTW's methods ", and did not use a curriculum or evaluate what children learned from them.

According to a May 2008 posting on The Comics Journal's website, the second effort " resulted in waves of lawyers raining upon the strip ’ s creators, ultimately leading to Kurtzman and Elder handing the copyright to the story over to Archie and signing an agreement promising never to reproduce it again.

According to the Dēnkard, the Tonsar effort resulted in the reproduction of twenty-one volumes, called nasks, subdivided into 348 chapters, with approximately 3. 5 million words in total.

According to the continuator of William of Tyre, he returned via Montpellier por l ' amor de sa dame Berenguiere (" for the love his lady Berengaria ") and abandoned any further effort at a Crusade.

According to Teveth ' through his campaign to mobilize the Yishuv in support of the British war effort, he strove to build the nucleus of a " Hebrew army ", and his success in this endeavor later brought victory to Zionism in the struggle to establish a Jewish state.

According to Dōgen scholar Steven Heine: " Dogen's poetic and philosophical works are characterized by a continual effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting imperfectable speech through the creative use of wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the recasting of traditional expressions ".

According to Maurice Natanson ( 1973, p. 63 ), “ The radicality of the phenomenological method is both continuous and discontinuous with philosophy ’ s general effort to subject experience to fundamental, critical scrutiny: to take nothing for granted and to show the warranty for what we claim to know .”

According to Joint Publication 1-02, the United States Department of Defense defines a resistance movement as " an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability ".

According to one study, increasing the average amount of wood in the fuel mixture from the current 2. 6 % to 12. 5 % would take the emissions down to 93 g CO < sub > 2 </ sub >/ MJ, though little effort is made to achieve this.

According to Mentzer, biologists and physiologists since the nineteenth century have known that hypertrophy is directly related to intensity, not duration, of effort ( Mentzer 2003 ; 39 ).

According to Ramana Maharshi, " Remaining in the primal, pure natural state without effort is sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi ".

According to Talmon, totalitarian democracy sees freedom as something achieved only in the long term, and only through collective effort ; the political goal of ultimate order and ultimate harmony brings ultimate freedom.

According to MTV, he has semi-retired to study the Bible more in an effort to give messages behind the pulpit.

According to a Los Angeles Times article, part of this effort was to allow directors more creative control as collaborators on their projects and to give them the creative freedom to use traditional animation techniques — a reversal of former CEO Michael Eisner's decision that Disney would do only digital animation, which Catmull thought was the wrong idea of how Pixar's films did well.

According to The New York Times the system is called " shuanggui " and is greatly feared by corrupt party functionaries.

According to some authors, such as Mehnert, this practice was fundamentally corrupt.

" According to Senator Richard Henry Lee, the primary purpose of the trial by jury in America was to protect the public from corrupt or aristocratic judges:

According to Dio Cassius, Perennis, though ruthless and ambitious, was not personally corrupt and generally administered the state well.

According to Transparency International, Mobutu embezzled over $ 5 billion USD from his country, ranking him as the third-most corrupt leader in the past two decades and the most corrupt African leader during the same period .< ref > But after his death the Swiss Government has claimed that Mobutu's legacy was just evaluated at 5. 3 millions dollars.

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 Australian philosopher John Burnheim, random selection of policymakers would make it easier for everyday citizens to meaningfully participate, and harder for special interests to corrupt the process.

According to Welch, " both the U. S. and Soviet governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians.

According to prominent Latin American historian Benjamin Keen, the task of transforming society " fell to the rapidly growing urban bourgeois groups, and especially to the middle class, which began to voice even more strongly its discontent with the rule of the corrupt rural oligarchies ".

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; the account of the birth of the other sons of Jacob is regarded by textual scholars as a complex mixture of Elohist and Yahwist texts, and very corrupt, and it is clear that parts of the corresponding Elohist text, and parts of the corresponding Yahwist text, are missing.

According to Dunning School historians, the Radical Republicans reversed the gains Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson had made in reintegrating the South, established corrupt shadow governments made up of Northern carpetbaggers and Southern scalawags in the former Confederate states, and, to increase their support base, foisted political rights on the freed slaves that they were unprepared or incapable of utilizing.

According to Herodotus, Cleomenes's young daughter Gorgo warned Cleomenes not to trust a man who threatened to corrupt him.

According to Latin American historian Benjamin Keen, the task of transforming society " fell to the rapidly growing urban bourgeois groups, and especially to the middle class, which began to voice even more strongly its discontent with the rule of the corrupt rural oligarchies ".

According to Jack Bristow and Arvin Sloane, the Alliance once wished to change the world when it had achieved this, and rid the world of corruption, but had become bloated and corrupt over the years, diverging from their original vision and focusing instead on profit.

* According to Herodotus, Sisamnes, a corrupt judge under Cambyses II of Persia, was flayed alive for accepting a bribe.

According to Atlanta historian Frederick Allen, Griffin was " a man of prodigious charm and wit and also one of the most corrupt public officials ever to hold office in Georgia.

According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt ; according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.

According to this self-characterised " national-patriotic " movement, there is a clash of civilizations, a global struggle between the idealist, collectivist, morally and spiritually superior Eurasia led by Russia, and the corrupt, materialistic, decadent and morally and spiritually polluted West led by the United States.

According to The New York Times the system is called " shuanggui " and is greatly feared by corrupt party functionaries.

According to Charles, the Nationalist Government was corrupt and currency became less and less usable as even the price of a stick of fried bread skyrocketed into extremely unreasonable prices.

According to the Ghata Jataka, Vasudeva, Baladeva and eight other Andhaka-Venhu ( probably, a corrupt form of Andhaka-Venhi, Pali equivalent to Sanskrit Andhaka-Vrishni ) brothers seized Dvaravati and killed its king Kamsa.