According to the most plausible version, Alexander ’ s intentions were to prevent scattered principalities of what would become Russia from repeated invasions by the Mongol army.

According to this theory, the name would mean something like ‘ the Great Taker ’ or the ‘ Great Allotter .’ However, it is just as plausible that the name be related to the Proto-Indo-European root * nem-‘ bend, twist .’ Along these lines, the theonym would mean something like the ‘ Great Twister ’ or the ‘ Great Bender .’

According to the theory of cosmic inflation and its founder, Alan Guth, if it is assumed that inflation began about 10 < sup >− 37 </ sup > seconds after the Big Bang, then with the plausible assumption that the size of the universe at this time was approximately equal to the speed of light times its age, that would suggest that at present the entire universe's size is at least 10 < sup > 23 </ sup > times larger than the size of the observable universe.

According to the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a covert operation ( also as CoveOps or covert ops ) is " an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor.

According to the common ( but incorrect ) Varronian chronology, the battle took place on July 18, 390 BC, but a more plausible date is 387.

According to an April 14, 2011 letter from Nevada Mining Association President Tim Crowley, and statements made by Republican Assembly Minority Floor Leader Pete Goicoechea, it appears plausible that "... Nevada mines have routinely claimed illegal tax deductions ..." The letter was directed to Chris Nielsen, and briefly summarized those deductions that the mining industry had been taking, despite not being expressly allowed to do so under the laws of Nevada.

According to M. D., Ph. D Frederick T. Zugibe, the most plausible region for the nail entry site in the case of Jesus is the upper part of the palm angled toward the wrist since this area can easily support the weight of the body, assures no bones are broken, marks the location where most people believed it to be, accounts for where most of the stigmatists have displayed their wounds and it is where artists through the centuries have designated it and lastly it would result in apparent lengthening of the fingers of the hand because of nail compression.

According to the most plausible theory held by the majority of ethnologists, including the German ethnologist Leopold Kretzenbacher, the bird-scaring rattle is of Slovene origin.

According to Crampton, besides the " brutal competition for limited advertising revenue ", another plausible reason for the shakeout was " the suffocating embrace of U. S .- based media giants with an American-centric perspective.

According to Clarke the modern scholarly consensus is that the wording of this verse is ambiguous and both interpretations are plausible.

According to the natural transfer theory ( also called ' Hunter Theory ' or ' Bushmeat Theory '), the " simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species transmission " of SIV or HIV ( post mutation ), the virus was transmitted from an ape or monkey to a human when a hunter or bushmeat vendor / handler was bitten or cut while hunting or butchering the animal.

According to the concept of vitalism, organic matter was endowed with a " vital force " and distinguished from inorganic materials.

According to the novel, the known universe can be divided into four Static values: inorganic, biological, social, and intellectual.

According to scientists who were briefly able to study him after an apparent death, Doppelganger is " inorganic and may not have been legally alive to begin with ".

According to her diaries, Volume One, 1931 – 1934, Nin abandoned formal schooling at the age of sixteen years and later began working as an artist's model.

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to this model, an autonomous lexical item in a particular context loses the properties of a fully independent word over time and acquires the properties of a morphological affix ( prefix, suffix, infix, etc .).

According to this model the issuer cannot " win " and the only solution is to abruptly stop expanding the currency.

According to the quark model, the properties of hadrons are primarily determined by their so-called valence quarks.

According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, a dual-store memory model set forth by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, memories can reside in the short-term “ buffer ” for a limited time while they are simultaneously strengthening their associations in long-term memory.

According to the model shown in nearly all introductory textbooks on economics, increasing the minimum wage decreases the employment of minimum-wage workers.

According to this model, most views within society are freely expressed, and the mass media are accountable to the people and tends to reflect the spectrum of opinion.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

According to Bohr's model of the atom, electrons have a high velocity, and the larger the nucleus they are orbiting the faster they would need to move.

According to Consumer Reports, the most common large size configuration for the 2011 model year was 7 passenger seating.

According to this model, emotions are expected to affect negotiations only when one is high and the other is low.

According to this model, each firm faces a demand curve kinked at the existing price.

According to Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning, the experimenters should have been able to condition a feared response within the rhesus monkeys to the evolutionary irrelevant stimuli because the Pavlovian model posits that any UCS can elicit a CR.

According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS, Karl Wolff, it was also based on the model from the Society of Jesus of absolute obedience to the Pope.

According to this model, recency is a result of the final items ’ processing context being similar to the processing context of the other items and the distinctive position of the final items versus items in the middle of the list.

According to Aristotle's physical interpretation of the model, celestial spheres eternally rotate with uniform motion around a stationary Earth.

According to M. I. Sanduk this hypothesis is related to a hypothetical bevel gear model.

According to some sources, the older man was expected to function as a kind of substitute father and role model to his junior partner ; however, others believe it was reasonably certain that they had sexual relations ( the exact nature of Spartan pederasty is not entirely clear ).

According to this model, the uncoordinated instinctual trends are the " id "; the organized realistic part of the psyche is the " ego ," and the critical and moralizing function the " super-ego.

According to this model, floral organ identity genes are divided into three classes: class A genes ( which affect sepals and petals ), class B genes ( which affect petals and stamens ), and class C genes ( which affect stamens and carpels ).

According to a functional-morphology model, all or most animals are descended from a gallertoid, a free-living ( pelagic ) sphere in seawater, consisting of a single ciliated layer of cells supported by a thin, noncellular separating layer, the basal lamina.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to Theravada commentaries, there are five requisite factors that must all be fulfilled for an act to be both an act of killing and to be karmically negative.

According to these models, a necessary ( but not sufficient ) condition for the occurrence of amorphous phases is that T < sub > h </ sub > has to be smaller than 0. 3, that is the deposition temperature must be below 30 % of the melting temperature.

According to the IRS, " The fair market value of goods and services exchanged must be included in the income of both parties.

According to Maimonides, the correct view of providence lies with Elihu, who teaches Job that one must examine his religion ().

According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population.

According to Carrom rules, the powder must be of high quality to keep the surface smooth and dry, and shall not be wet.

According to Manuel Pedro Ferreira, a scholar on the Cantigas, the music found in the Cantigas cannot be classified as Arabic, but instead must be classified as " Moorish-Andalusian ".

According to ANSI Standard 1100, a professional certifying organization must meet two requirements:

According to the laws of Canada, a Canadian whisky must be mashed, distilled and aged in Canada.

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to this view, either it is very hard for intelligent life to arise, or the lifetime of such civilizations must be relatively short.

According to the theory that knowledge is justified true belief, in order to know that a given proposition is true, one must not only believe the relevant true proposition, but one must also have a good reason for doing so.

According to the present view of the situation, quantum mechanics flatly contradicts Einstein's philosophical postulate that any acceptable physical theory must fulfill " local realism ".

According to Eoin O ' Duffy, an Irish national corporatist, " before everything we must give a national lead to our people ... The first essential is national unity.

According to the usul al-fiqh ( principles of jurisprudence ), the fatwā must meet the following conditions in order to be valid:

According to the Free Software Foundation, " freeware " is a loosely defined category and it has no clear accepted definition, although FSF says it must be distinguished from free software ( libre ).

According to Fichte, transcendental philosophy can explain that the world must have space, time, and causality, but it can never explain why objects have the particular sensible properties they happen to have or why I am this determinate individual rather than another.

According to Kelly: "... when you are involved in doing choreography for film you must have expert assistants.

According to Niebuhr " this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury ; it carried off innumerable victims.

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

According to the fallacy, " streaks " must eventually even out in order to be representative.

According to ICANN policy, a domain registrant must agree to be bound by the UDRP — they cannot get a domain name without agreeing to this.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the ' deadline ' by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation.