According to sociologist Harry Lefever and journalist John Leland, the game is almost exclusive to African Americans ; other ethnic groups often fail to understand how to play the game and can take remarks in the Dozens seriously.

According to author John Leland, the object of the game is to stupefy and daze one's opponents with swift and skillful speech.

According to Leland R. Beaumont, each instance of anger demands making a choice.

According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.

According to Leland, the Annals of Pershore hold an earl called Delfer responsible for depriving the abbey of several of its lands.

According to Leland M. Roth and his text Understanding Architecture Its Elements, History and Meaning neoclassicism is defined as a reproduction of Classical Greek and Roman building whether in the entirety of buildings or selected details which begun in the later 18th century.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to The New York Times, the supposedly bad feng-shui was precisely the reason Tung Chee Hwa refused to live or work in Government House upon becoming Chief Executive.

According to practitioners, it was first brought to the West in the 1930s by Chan Kam Lee and was subsequently popularized by Chee Soo who was the President of the International Taoist Society from 1958 until his death in 1994.

According to Chee Soo in a book published by HarperCollins, the style is derived from an original set of eight movements created by Ho-Hsieh Lee from Beijing around 1000 BC, this was a time before there were any written records so we only have the oral tradition passed down from father to son to rely on.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word hlāford which originated from hlāfweard meaning ' bread keeper ' or ' loaf-ward ', reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers.

According to Plutarch's Life of Romulus, the keeper of the Temple of Hercules challenged the hero to a game of dice with Hercules to receive a night with a beautiful woman and a fine spread and the god to provide the temple keeper with a valuable gift if the keeper was successful.

According to the new law of 1895, a petition for revision founded on a new fact ( discovered after the sentence ) could only be submitted to the Court of Cassation by the keeper of the seals, after the latter had taken the advice of a special commission.

According to the Book of Mormon, Jacob (;, ) was a younger brother of the prophet Nephi, the keeper of the small plates of Nephi after Nephi's death, and is considered to be the author of the Book of Jacob.

The Masons had added to the original wood frame constructed keeper ’ s house and According to an 1838 report, the house contained 23 rooms.

According to tradition and local legend, the eternal keeper of the enormous Tun remains Perkeo of Heidelberg, once a court jester and master of the castle ’ s spirit production ( and a famously Herculean wine drinker ).

According to his English counterpart Godfrey Evans, Tallon was the " best and most nimble keeper ever " while Australian team-mate Alan Davidson called him the " Bradman of keepers ".

According to the Book of Mormon, Amos was a Nephite record keeper and son of Nephi the Disciple.

According to the Book of Mormon, Amos was a Nephite record keeper.

According to the Book of Mormon, Chemish () was a Nephite record keeper.

According to the Book of Mormon, Amaleki () was a Nephite record keeper ( ca 130 BC ).

According to the Book of Mormon, Abinadom () was a Nephite record keeper, and the son of Chemish.

According to the Book of Mormon, Amaron () was a Nephite record keeper, who received the Plates of Nephi from his father Omni in 279 BC.

According to the meeting minutes, Pasternak was denounced as an internal White emigre and a Fascist fifth columnist.

According to Denis Sinor, their rise to power represented an ' internal revolution ' in the confederacy, rather than an external conquest.

According to experts, internal measures are generally collected and analyzed by the firm including

According to James Bamford, the NSA had picked up communications of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi back in 1999, but had been hampered by internal bureaucratic conflicts between itself and the CIA, and did not do a full analysis of the information it passed on to the agency.

According to official Residents lore, there was internal turmoil which resulted in a large, " embarrassing " food fight ; they decided to resolve this tension in 1974 by recording what would later become Not Available – representative of N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity taken to its logical conclusion.

According to API Standards 600, " Steel Gate Valve-Flanged and Butt-welding Ends, Bolted Bonnets ", the trim consists of stem, seating surface in the body, gate seating surface, bushing or a deposited weld for the backseat and stem hole guide, and small internal parts that normally contact the service fluid, excluding the pin that is used to make a stem-to-gate connection ( this pin shall be made of an austenitic stainless steel material ).

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

According to the article, an SCI spokesman said that the company is conducting an internal investigation.

According to a white paper authored by Intel and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, PCs with internal power supplies will require the use of active power factor correction to meet the ENERGY STAR 5. 0 Program Requirements for Computers.

According to Tacitus, among them were the Batavians, until an internal quarrel drove them out, to take up new lands at the mouth of the Rhine.

According to Thomas Hischak, Hart " had a remarkable talent for polysyllabic and internal rhymes ", and his lyrics have often been praised for their wit and technical sophistication.

( According to some accounts the Mass was interrupted by sniper fire from both the internal and external galleries.

" According to Encyclopædia Britannica, an internal infection can cause pain which in turn can activate anger.

According to the Council of Logistics Management, logistics contains the integrated planning, control, realization and monitoring of all internal and network-wide material -, part-and product flow including the necessary information flow in industrial and trading companies along the complete value-added chain ( and product life cycle ) for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements.

According to Plutarch it was the citizens of Delos who consulted the oracle at Delphi, seeking a solution for their internal political problems at the time, which had intensified relationships among the citizens.

According to the virial theorem, the gravitational binding energy of a star is about two times its internal thermal energy.

According to internal NKVD data, a total of 144, 704 were killed in 1944-1948 alone ( death rate of 23. 5 % per all groups ).

According to task force member Jack Sams, " The reasons were internal.

According to him, U. S state objectives have led to internal conditions that resemble totalitarianism: " is a power establishment that over the course of the Cold War has spun out of control and now threatens not only the fundamental institutions of democracy, but even of life on the planet through the growing risk of nuclear war by miscalculation "

According to cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, shame is a violation of cultural or social values while guilt feelings arise from violations of one's internal values.

According to DEA boss Anthony Souh, the agency nevertheless suffers from substantial internal corruption.

According to Hutcheson, man has a variety of senses, internal as well as external, reflex as well as direct, the general definition of a sense being " any determination of our minds to receive ideas independently on our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain " ( Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, sect.

According to the Linux From Scratch website, the advantages to this method are a compact, flexible and secure system and a greater understanding of the internal workings of the Linux-based operating systems.

According to the one of Iran analyst's of International Crisis Group ( a NGO founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President and former US diplomats ), " Kurds, who live in the some of the least developed parts of Iran, pose the most serious internal problem for Iran to resolve, and given what they see next door — the newfound confidence of Iraqi Kurds — there's concern Iranian Kurds will agitate for greater autonomy.