According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts " a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles " during the first Human-alien war.

According to an article in Animerica magazine, Shoji Kawamori original idea for the Macross series was an all-female crew for the battleship with a female captain at the helm.

According to the League of American Orchestras, this is done because the pitch of the oboe is secure and its penetrating sound makes it ideal for tuning purposes.

According to the treaty naval stores ( including ship's timbers, masts, spars, canvas, tar, rope, and pitch ) were not contraband and the Dutch therefore were free to continue their trade with France in these goods.

According to the U. S Nationals Rules and World Championship Rules, kubb is played on a rectangular pitch 5 m by 8 m. Corner stakes are placed so that a rectangle is formed.

According to George Perle the, " primary basic cells of this work, at their principal pitch level, are ":

According to Liutprand, he was treated very rudely and undignified by the court of Nikephoros II being served goat stuffed with onion and served in fish sauce and " undrinkable " wine mixed with resin, pitch and gypsum — very offensive to his Germanic tastes.

According to Schilling, the umpire behind the plate had said " I can't call that pitch a strike, the machine won't let me.

According to the pitch at the Zeroes2Heroes website, Megabyte's Hunt has developed into a Net-wide war so pervasive even other Viruses are united against it.

According to manager Frankie Frisch, the pitch was named by outfielder Maurice Van Robays.

According to Mike Scioscia, the splitter was " the pitch of the ' 80s.

According to Publishing News, Garth Nix was preparing to pitch a Sabriel film to studios in mid-2008 via Steve Fisher at APA.

According to the pitch there are four different registers that can be achieved with the Bulgarian kaval.

According to his autobiography, Nolan Ryan also developed his own circle changeup to add another off-speed pitch without having to throw a slider ( as sliders are believed to more frequently cause injuries ).

According to Uli Behringer his piano teacher, impressed with his sense of perfect pitch, nicknamed him " The Ear ," the inspiration for the Behringer Ear logo.

According to Stacey Sher, one of the film's producers, when they were attempting to locate financing for the film they had the real Erin Brockovich pitch her life story to an unnamed movie studio executive who yawned in the middle of her pitch.

According to certain critics in the Spanish press, McManaman and several other players became " victims " as the policy was based more on marketing and revenue generation, and sometimes meant players were picked not according to form, but because of their money-making potential off the pitch.

According to the Commentary Track on their " When Dream And Day Reunite " Official Bootleg Live DVD during the first few minutes of the live concert Jordan Rudess had an equipment malfunction that played either the incorrect sound, no sound at all, or random notes 1 / 2-step upward in pitch.

According to Sports Illustrated, when his other competitor for the franchise, Max Kase, a New York newsman, was making his pitch to the other league representatives, Irish would interject from time to time, " Three and a half million.

According to the 1998 plans, renovation was to include lowering the lawn and making the “ ring ” round the pitch in the place of running track and thus gain 16, 000 new seats with the annex to he south stand with the final addition of a modern roof structure.

According to Tezuka, the pitch, if thrown correctly, is meant to fly straight like a fastball.

According to Branca, Thomson admitted to accepting the stolen signs during his first three at-bats of that game, but claimed that he did not do so in the final at-bat ; Branca indicated that he did not believe Thomson's denials and remained convinced that Thomson was in fact tipped off on the fateful pitch.

According to Steve Holroyd, in a professional career spanning twenty-five years, “ Gonsalves was also the consummate gentleman on the pitch: legend has it he was never cautioned or ejected from any match for rough play or ungentlemanly conduct .”

According to Praetorius, the reed stops of pipe organs required constant tuning ; he emphasized the fact that the pitch of the stop fell in summer and rose in winter.

According to Seymour Siwoff, who was on Baseball's Committee for Statistical Accuracy, the feat could not be listed with the " pure " no-hitters because " Young didn't get the chance to go out and pitch the ninth ... who knows what would have happened if he did.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.

According to the latest projections of the Bureau of the Census, the annual rate of household formations will increase for the next 20 years.

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

According to the Talmud, extinction of the soul is reserved for a far much smaller group of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Nicolaus of Damascus, Octavius wished to join Caesar's staff for his campaign in Africa but gave way when his mother protested.

* According to a note of Isaac de Beausobre ’ s, Jean Hardouin accepted the first three of these, taking the four others for the initials of the Greek anthrōpoussōzōn hagiōi xylōi, “ saving mankind by the holy cross .”

According to The Annotated Alice, Carroll had originally had the characters dry off by having the Dodo lead them to a nearby house for towels.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.