According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

According to a 1996 report of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, during Reagan's two terms, and through 1993, the top 10 % of taxpayers paid an increased share of income taxes ( not including payroll taxes ) to the Federal government, while the lowest 50 % of taxpayers paid a reduced share of income tax revenue.

According to the Joint Congressional Committee on Presidential Inaugurations, George Washington added the words " So help me God " during his first inaugural, though this has been disputed.

According to DoD documents, “ The MIL-STD-188 series may be based on, or make reference to, Joint Technical Architecture, American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) standards, International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector ( ITU-T ) recommendations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Standardization Agreements ( STANAG ), and other standards wherever applicable .”

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 the findings of Lord Butler of Brockwell's Review of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the reduction of operational capabilities in the Middle East and of the Requirements division's ability to challenge the quality of the information the Middle East Controllerate was providing weakened the Joint Intelligence Committee's estimates of Iraq's nonconventional weapons programmes.

According to the Joint Report, 12 % of all bank holding companies had qualified as financial holding companies to exercise the new powers provided by the GLBA, and those companies held 78 % of all bank holding company assets.

According to the 2012 Military Pay Table effective 1 January 2012, While serving as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff / Vice Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff, Chief of Navy Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Army / Air Force Chief of Staff, Commander of a unified or specified combatant command, basic pay is $ 20, 587. 80 a month plus additional allowances / pay.

According to the rules of most air transportation authorities, such as the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration and European Union's Joint Aviation Authorities, should passengers flying internationally with checked baggage fail to arrive at the departure gate before the flight is closed, that person's baggage must be retrieved from the aircraft hold before the flight is permitted to take off.

According to OSGEOINT, these bases include Creech Air Force Base, the Yucca Lake UAV testing facility, and Nellis Air Force Base, operating the MQ-1-9, MQ-170, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in addition to other aircraft.

According to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS, he was chosen because his political position, his respect throughout the Pacific region, and his outspokenness on AIDS-related issues.

According to a paper by Besebes on the library, prepared for the 62nd IFLA Conference, " The Congress Library is organized as one of the Joint Programs under the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates.

According to AFSPC, its mission is " to provide resilient and cost-effective Space and Cyberspace capabilities for the Joint Force and the Nation.

According to the Act, the Chairman may not exercise military command over the Joint Chiefs of Staff or any of the armed forces.

According to the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's 2002 Southerly Crossings Corridor Study, Scudders Fall Bridge carries roughly 55, 000 vehicles per day ( traffic counts have increased since then ), well beyond the design load of 40, 000 vehicles per day.

According to Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the future Secretary of State, the " shooting gallery " scenes carnage was the reason to end the Gulf War hostilities after the Liberation of Kuwait campaign.

According to the Council Joint Action of 20 July 2001, which established the EUISS, the mission of the EUISS is to ' contribute to the development of the CFSP, in particular the ESDP, in coherence with the European Security Strategy.

According to the National Newspapers of Ireland and Joint National Readership Survey 91 % of Irish adults regularly read newspapers.

According to Senomyx ’ s website, it " received a positive review by the Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, which determined that there were no safety concerns with the use of the Company ’ s savory flavor ingredients in foods.

According to documents published in the Guantanamo Bay files leak, the US military Joint Task Force Guantanamo believed in November 2007 that Aamer had led a unit of fighters in Afghanistan, including the Battle of Tora Bora, while his family was paid a stipend by Osama bin Laden.

According to documents published in the Guantanamo Bay files leak, the US military Joint Task Force Guantanamo believed in November 2007, partly based on evidence given by informant and fellow detainee Yasim Muhammed Basardah, that Aamer was a “ recruiter, financier, and facilitator ” for al-Qaeda, The leaked documents alleged that had confessed to interrogators that he was in Tora Bora with Osama bin Laden at the time of the US bombing.

According to HRW, those extrajudicial executions would qualify as forced disappearances if they had been carried out by agents of the government or on its behalf, but nevertheless remained " blatant violations of the FARC-EP's obligations under international humanitarian law and in particular key provisions of article 4 of Protocol II, which protects against violence to the life, physical, and mental well-being of persons, torture, and ill-treatment.

According to the pre-agreed war plans under the Protocol of Sèvres, the Israelis invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, forcing Egypt to engage them militarily, and allowing the Anglo-French partnership to declare the resultant fighting a threat to the canal and enter the war on Israel's side.

According to UN documents, in relation to the adoption and enforcement of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, the CSUCS plays " a key role in ensuring implementation at every level.

According to Article 77. 2 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, adopted in 1977:

Under international law, according to Protocol 1 Additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Gurkhas serving as regular uniformed soldiers are not mercenaries, According to Cabinet Office official histories ( Official History of the Falkland Islands, Sir Lawrence Freedman ), Sir John Nott, as Secretary of State for Defence, expressed the British Government's concern that the Gurkhas could not be sent with the task force to recapture the Falkland Islands because it might upset the non-aligned members of the fragile coalition of support that the British had built in the United Nations.

According to the Protocol III of the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons governing the use of incendiary weapons:

According to the IPCC, they are thus obliged to pay 15 times more per life to avoid a loss of each such life to climate change — the Kyoto Protocol seeks to implement exactly this formula, and is therefore sometimes cited as a first step towards getting nations to accept formal liability for damage inflicted on ecosystems shared globally.

According to its authors, the Groningen Protocol was developed in order to assist with the decision making process when considering actively ending the life of a newborn, by providing the information required to assess the situation within a legal and medical framework.

According to Emerson, due to the huge installed base of 4-20 mA systems throughout the world, the HART Protocol was one of the most popular industrial protocols today.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, personality traits are " enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.

According to the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR ), to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met:

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), DID includes " the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states " that alternate control of the individual's behavior, accompanied by the inability to recall personal information beyond what is expected through normal forgetfulness.

According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, the three touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic transporter console on the original Enterprise in The Original Series.

According to the TNG Technical Manual, the transporter cannot move antimatter, but in the VOY episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto a Borg ship.

The observation of a circadian or diurnal process in humans is mentioned in Chinese medical texts dated to around the 13th century, including the Noon and Midnight Manual and the Mnemonic Rhyme to Aid in the Selection of Acu-points According to the Diurnal Cycle, the Day of the Month and the Season of the Year.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR ), symptoms emerge before seven years of age.

According to the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, phobias can be classified under the following general categories:

According to the NCSL, one of the many reasons that most state legislatures use Mason's Manual instead of Robert's Rules of Order is because Robert's Rules applies best to private organizations and civic groups that do not meet in daily public sessions.

According to the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, a hospital ship violating legal restrictions must be duly warned and given a reasonable time limit to comply.

According to US Army Field Manual 3-21. 8 ( Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad, formerly FM 7-8 ) a typical United States Army fireteam consists of four soldiers:

According to the Intel 80286 Programmer's Reference Manual,

According to DSM IV ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, IV edition ), where all psychiatric illnesses are represented as numerals to avoid confusion, frotteurism is classified as 302. 89.

According to the 2009 – 2013 Manual, " Historically, Nazarene global ministry has centered around evangelism, compassionate ministry, and education.

According to the 2009-2010 Policy Manual for M. Sc.

According to Baird's Manual, nine undergraduates at Union College in Schenectady, New York — John Hart Hunter, John McGeoch, Isaac W. Jackson, Thomas Hun, Orlando Meads, James Proudfit, and Joseph Anthony Constant of the class of 1826, and Arthur Burtis and Joseph Law of the Class of 1827 — established the Society on November 26, 1825 from an informal group calling itself The Philosophers, which was established by Hunter, Jackson, and Hun in 1823.

According to the not ratified document San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, 12 June 1994, a blockade is a legal method of warfare at sea, but is governed by rules.

According to the Merck Manual, prolonged contact of copper alloys with acidic food or beverages ( including boiling milk ) can leach out the copper and cause toxicity.

According to 2nd edition's Manual of Exalted Power: The Alchemicals, subroutine spirits are Autochthon's manufactured counterpart to 1st and 2nd circle demons, and are divided into three tiers based on power, importance and autonomy: Alpha, Beta and Gamma in ascending order, and Autochthon has made his Divine Ministers incapable of spawning new exmachina, 2nd edition material is unclear about the fate of pre-existing 2nd circle exmachina.

According to Philip V. Wells in The Jepson Manual and other sources, there are two subgenera of Arctostaphylos:

According to the state-published 2002 North Carolina Manual ( no longer available online ), " Prior to 1957, the General Assembly convened in January at a time fixed by the Constitution of North Carolina.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition ( DSM IV-TR ), a frequent and widely used guide for the diagnosis of mental disorders, the following symptoms and characteristics are the diagnostic criteria for kleptomania:

According to the NFL District Manual, District Tournaments do require some form of eligibility towards the National Tournament.

According to the NFL District Manual, the following are the entry limits on all events:

According to both the University of Oxford and the Chicago Manual of Style, university degrees should be listed in ascending order: bachelor's degrees first, followed by master's degrees, then doctorates.