According to Noam Chomsky, any property can be considered material, if one defines matter such that it has that property.

According to Gould the most influential political books he read were C. Wright Mills ' The Power Elite and the political writings of Noam Chomsky.

According to Noam Chomsky, USAN represents that " for the first time since the European conquest, Latin America began to move towards integration ".

According to Noam Chomsky, analysis of the psychological implications of wage slavery goes back to the Enlightenment era.

According to Grinder, the linguistic aspects of neuro-linguistic programming were based in part on previous work by Grinder using Noam Chomsky's transformational grammar.

According to Noam Chomsky, " In one month, this massive military operation murdered some 2, 000 people, raped hundreds of women and girls, displaced three-quarters of the population, and demolished 75 percent of the country's infrastructure " ( Radical Priorities, 72 ).

According to Tillman's mother, a friend of Tillman had arranged a meeting with author Noam Chomsky, a prominent critic of American foreign and military policy, to take place after his return from Afghanistan.

According to Book of Jubilees, Kenan's mother was Noam, wife and sister of Enos ; and Kenan's wife, Mualeleth, was his sister.

According to Noam Chomsky in 1989, Operation Mongoose " won the prize for the largest operation of international terrorism in the world.

According to Noam Chomsky, American commercial media encourage controversy within a narrow range of opinion, in order to give the impression of open debate, but do not report on news that falls outside that range.

According to Noam Chomsky, claims that the Palestinian leadership reject the international consensus calling for a Palestinian state with borders along the Green Line are not consistent with the documented record.

According to Chomsky, the media and public relations industry actively shape public opinion, working to present messages in line with their economic agenda for the purposes of controlling of the ' public mind '.

According to Chomsky, children acquiring a language have a vast search space to explore among all possible human grammars, yet at the time there was no evidence that children receive sufficient input to learn all the rules of their language ( see poverty of the stimulus ).

According to Chomsky, he insisted Herman's name appear first on the cover of Manufacturing Consent because of his primary role researching and developing the theory.

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall.

According to Chomsky, Hauser and Fitch ( 2002 ), there are six main aspects of this high-level reference system:

According to Chomsky, the criteria for the " justification of grammars " are " external conditions of adequacy ", " condition of generality " and " simplicity ".

According to Chomsky, " the fundamental aim in the linguistic analysis of a language L is to separate the grammatical sequences which are the sentences of L from the ungrammatical sequences which are not sentences of L and to study the structure of the grammatical sequences.

According to Chomsky, competence is the ' ideal ' language system that makes it possible for speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language, and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences.

According to Chomsky, it is regarded to be innate because one does not have to be trained to develop it and will still be able to apply it in an infinite number of unheard examples.

" According to Anders Hansson, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, " upward mobility into the elite was theoretically possible for virtually all male commoners.

According to distributists, property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state ( state socialism ) or by an elite of wealthy property owners ( laissez-faire capitalism ).

According to long-time friend and colleague Marc Lalonde, the clerically influenced dictatorships of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal ( the Estado Novo ), Francisco Franco in Spain ( the Spanish State ), and Marshal Philippe Pétain in Vichy France were seen as political role models by many youngsters educated at elite Jesuit schools in Quebec.

According to this view, socialism from above is carried out by a centralized state run by an elite bureaucratic apparatus, whereas socialism from below represents the self-administration and self-rule of the working class.

According to the book of Acts, contained in the Christian New Testament, when the Apostle Paul visited Athens, he saw an altar with an inscription dedicated to that god, and, when invited to speak to the Athenian elite at the Areopagus gave the following speech:

According to Human Rights Watch, Communist Party leaders and ruling elite were far from unified in their support for the crackdown ;.

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse ( the horse being the emblem of Troy ), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy.

According to Human Rights Watch, Communist Party leaders and ruling elite were far from unified in their support for the crackdown.

According to Frum, " AEI represents the best of the conservative world ... But the elite isn ’ t leading anymore ... I think Arthur took no pleasure in this.

According to Franzen, it depicted Webster Groves High School, which he attended only a few years after the documentary's broadcast, as being " ruled by a tiny elite of ' soshies ' who made life gray and marginal for the great majority of students who weren ’ t ' football captains ,' ' cheerleaders ' or ' dance queens '"; the school was depicted as having a " student body obsessed with grades, cars and money.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Wellesley College also ranks fifth in the top liberal arts colleges (# 15 as one of the top total undergraduate colleges ) for sending more students to the selected 15, elite graduate school programs in medicine, law, and business.

According to a 1980 Time Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, allegedly Soviet non-Slavs, including Jews, Armenians, and Asians were generally barred from senior ranks and from joining elite or strategic positions in the Air Force, Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Soviet Navy because of doubts regarding the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to Livius, Baebius criticized the emergence of a new elite forged from the patricians and plebeian nobiles, altering the traditional conflict of the orders.

According to Shi ' a scholar Muhammad Husain Javari Sabinal, Shi ' ism would not have spread at all if not for taqiyya, referring to instances where Shi ' a have been ruthlessly persecuted by the Sunni political elite during the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.

According to the IDF, Abbedalla Qawasameh was killed in June 2003 by the Yamam elite CT unit after resisting an arrest.

According to Filipino writer and historian Nick Joaquin however, the main objective of the Americans was not to pursue Aguinaldo but to keep him away from linking up with the elite Tinio Brigade, which was under the command of Manuel Tinio.

According to author Patrick Seale, " every party worker, every paratrooper sent to Hama knew that this time Islamic militancy had to be torn out of the city, whatever the cost ..." The military was mobilized, and president Hafez al-Assad sent Rifaat's special forces ( the Defense companies ), elite army units and Mukhabarat agents to the city.

According to Domhoff, many people seem to believe that the United States is ruled from behind the scenes by a conspiratorial elite with secret desires, i. e., by a small secretive group that wants to change the government system or put the country under the control of a world government.

According to the Ginghizide tradition, the local Turkic tribes were also called Tatars by the steppe nobility and, later, by the Russian elite.

According to Roger Scruton, " Learning that his wife had been conducting a passionate affair with Vita ( to the enraged jealousy of Vita ’ s other lover, Virginia Woolf ), Campbell began to see the three aspects of the new elite — sexual inversion, anti-patriotism, and progressive politics — as aspects of a single frame of mind.

According to the great 10th century genealogist Liu Fang: " Across the Yangzi River, the elite clans were known as ' émigré clans '; the Wang ( 王 ), Xie ( 謝 ), Yuan, and Xiao ( 萧 ) were the greatest among them.

According to a 1980 Time article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy, Strategic Rocket Forces and the Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to Tamihere, the party's leaders " belong to a relatively wealthy, educated elite ", and do not represent ordinary Maori.

According to this view, socialism from above is carried out by a centralized state run by an elite bureaucratic apparatus, whereas socialism from below represents the self-administration and self-rule of the working class.