According to a report in the Cork Examiner, the Continuity IRA's first chief of staff was Dáithí Ó Conaill, who also served as the first chairman of RSF from 1986 to 1987.

According to Hailsham, a former chairman of the British Conservative Party, " Conservatism is not so much a philosophy as an attitude, a constant force, performing a timeless function in the development of a free society, and corresponding to a deep and permanent requirement of human nature itself.

According to chairman of the club Eric Gudde the placing in the more favourable category came earlier than anticipated, he also congratulated the fans and promised to maintain the same policy until Feyenoord was completely healthy again and will never fall back into the first category.

According to chairman Étienne Davignon, a major attraction of Bilderberg group meetings is that they provide an opportunity for participants to speak and debate candidly and to find out what major figures really think, without the risk of off-the-cuff comments becoming fodder for controversy in the media.

According to Lee Yun-ping, chairman of the Chinese historical society, Sun needed a certificate to enter the United States at a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have otherwise blocked him.

" According to the British newspaper The Guardian, "... the October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende ... was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.

According to an interim report released on February 3, 2005 by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's commission ( see # Investigations below ), much of the food aid supplied under the programme " was unfit for human consumption ".

According to Stefan Steinbrener, former chairman of an EPO Technical Board of Appeal, this means that:

According to a 1960 promotional EP designed and distributed by Liberty Records for Liberty shareholders, David Seville ( of Chipmunks fame ), a composer / producer on Liberty, told Julie London that the term " exotica " was coined by Simon " Si " Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and, at the time, board chairman.

According to Gerald M. Levine, chairman and CEO of Time Warner at the time, the FSN was part of the company ’ s strategy for driving the growth of its copyright businesses:

According to Thomas Young, chairman of the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team, the program " was under funded by at least 30 %.

According to Sergey Kalyakin, the chairman of the PKB, the so-called " re-unification " of the two parties was a plot designed to oust the opposition PKB.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, directed Caucus funds from its PAC BOLDPAC ( Building Our Leadership Diversity ) to the unsuccessful California campaigns of his sons, Joe Baca, Jr. and Jeremy Baca.

" According to the almanac, the quote refers to opposition to his proposed budget, which included cuts to several earmarks and programs ; the statement was made during Nussle's tenure as House Budget Committee chairman.

According to the Angus Journal, Goodlatte, as chairman of the House Agricultural Committee, said, " he wants an animal ID system in place as soon as possible " and " favors an industry plan to form an animal ID database that would control the information until USDA needs it.

According to the press, they were separately nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on Chinese organ harvesting by Canadian MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj and Balfour Hakak, chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel.

According to Jacques Henry, chairman of CODOFIL, much progress has been made for francophones and that the future of French in Louisiana is not merely a symbolic one.

According to chairman Bill Wavish, all Myer stores were now profitable, and all stores were more profitable than in the previous year.

According to Barr, though the position of secretary general is " routinely occupied by members of Cabinet ", Ong " stood out ": Ong was a former Minister for Labor, chairman of the PAP and " regarded as a potential successor to Lee Kuan Yew ".

According to the movement's chairman, then Colonel ( NS ) David Wong, the Speak Good English Movement aims to build a sense of pride that Singaporeans can speak good English, as opposed to Singlish, as well as to check the trend where Singaporeans use Singlish as a way of identifying themselves.

According to the report, in late 1985 then SMU President L. Donald Shields and board of trustees chairman Edwin L. Cox wanted to stop the payments completely in opposition to Clements and Hitch.

According to Jacques Schram, chairman of the Executive Committee, the membership totalled 881 in 2003.

According to The Financial Times, Henriksson, who had been the company's Chief Executive since 2005, had had differences with chairman Nigel Rudd over running the company, differences in spite of the company's return to financial health under Henriksson.

According to uniting treaties between SNK and ED this hasn't any formal chairman.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to legend, he was the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

According to one estimate made in 2005, 99. 82 % of all deceased Japanese are cremated.

According to Ministry of Education guidelines, and the opinions of educators, the use of Japanese furigana should be avoided in English teaching due to the differences in pronunciation between English and Japanese.

According to this view, the eight-vowel system of ancient Japanese would resemble that of the Uralic and Altaic language families.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to Japanese literature, the koto was used as imagery and other extra music significance.

One prominent example is the anime Maziger Z, where the term " Super Robot ", features in the Japanese theme song According to Go Nagai:

According to Klein, in response to an economic crash in the 1980s ( Latin American debt crisis, Black Monday ( 1987 ), Savings and loan crisis Japanese asset price bubble ), corporations began to seriously rethink their approach to marketing, and began to target the youth demographic, as opposed to the baby boomers, who had previously been considered a much more valuable segment.

According to this view, the people indigenous to Taiwan and those who have taken up residence there have been repeatedly occupied by groups including the Dutch, the Spanish, the Ming, Koxinga and the Ming loyalists, the Qing, the Japanese and finally the Chinese Nationalists led by the Kuomintang.

* August 6 – According to Japanese government and TBS networks reports, torrential rain and mudslides kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.

According to the National Institute for Research Advancement, a Japanese think tank, think tanks are " one of the main policy actors in democratic societies ..., assuring a pluralistic, open and accountable process of policy analysis, research, decision-making and evaluation ".

* According to Ryūs own sources, Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese koryū martial art that is still extant today.

According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of them are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 per cent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups.

According to Reid, McEwen was aware that McMahon was habitually breaching Cabinet confidentiality and regularly leaking information to favoured journalists and lobbyists, including Maxwell Newton, who had been hired as a " consultant " by Japanese trade interests.

According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi ( 毛昶熙 ) and Dong Xun ( 董恂 ), the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen ( 總理衙門 ) who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu ( 柳原前光 ) replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryūkyū was under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's business.

According to Regan, the lopsided Japanese victory at Tsushima :... created a legend that was to haunt Japan's leaders for forty years.

According to one Japanese journalist embedded with Imperial forces at the time, " The reason that the Army is advancing to Nanking quite rapidly is due to the tacit consent among the officers and men that they could loot and rape as they wish.

According to reports, Japanese troops torched newly built government buildings as well as the homes of many civilians.

According to Wei Yuan's work Military history of the Qing Dynasty (), the Later Jin sent 400 troops to Sakhalin in 1616, after a newfound interest because of northern Japanese contacts with the area, but later withdrew as it was considered there was no threat from the island.