According to the Washington Post, in December 2009, after US President Barack Obama announced he would deploy 30, 000 more U. S. soldiers, and that Washington wants others to follow suit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted with the message that Turkey would not contribute additional troops to Afghanistan.

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

According to the Dauphin County Board of Elections, in 2008 Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Dauphin County since 1964, receiving 9. 0 % more of the vote than John McCain.

According to the Friday, August 12, 2011 online edition of the Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a three-state bus tour of the Midwest focusing on jobs, the state of the economy, and the housing market in a campaign-style event.

According to the Obama administration, it is " an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the president.

According to press reports, in asking his top fundraisers to steer money to the main super PAC backing his reelection, Obama embraced a campaign vehicle he previously denounced.

According to Hersh, MEK members were trained in intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics at the Nevada site up until President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

According to Xinhua the Obama Presidency is considering transferring Riduan Isamuddin to Washington DC for a civilian trial.

According to the book President Obama supported a financial transaction tax on trades of stocks, derivatives, and other financial instruments, but he was blocked by Summers.

According to the Portland Press Herald, King, who was a supporter of George W. Bush in 2000 ( but endorsed John Kerry in 2004 ), endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election, stating that the Illinois Democrat "... leads with hope and not through fear.

According to Federal Election Commission records, she made the maximum contribution of $ 2, 300 to the Obama campaign during the 2008 primary season.

" According to Obama, the " audacity of hope " is " God's greatest gift " to Americans, allowing him to feel optimistic that the lives of average Americans can be improved with the right governmental policies.

According to the New York Times the closing of the two cases means that the Obama administration ’ s limited effort to scrutinize the counterterrorism programs, such as waterboarding, carried out under President George W. Bush has come to an end.

According to the obituary printed by The New York Times, his brother, Mitchell Silver, noted that " He told me that he did vote for Barack Obama in the end.

According to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rybak was the first mayor of a large U. S. city to endorse the presidential campaign of Illinois Senator Barack Obama in 2007.

According to Wall Street Journal, Ross, along with James Steinberg and Daniel Kurtzer, were among the principal authors of presidential candidate Barack Obama ’ s address on the Middle East to AIPAC in June 2008.

According to West Wing writer and producer Eli Attie, Santos was based on then Illinois state senator, and later U. S. Senator, then President Barack Obama.

According to the Grand Rapids Press, Van Andel Arena hosted an estimated 12, 000 people " in what may have been the biggest free-admission event ever held in the arena ," when Barack Obama held a campaign event there on May 14, 2008.

According to Salon. com: " Right after Barack Obama finished his well-received 2009 speech in Cairo, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon did a quick word search on the president ’ s prepared remarks.

According to The News Journal, the inaguration ceremony was held in the middle of the night to comply with the requirements of the state constitution that the Governor be inaugurated on the third Tuesday of January and to allow Delaware residents to enjoy the historic event that would occur later that day: the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and his vice president, Delaware ’ s Joseph R. Biden, Jr. A traditional swearing-in ceremony was held the following day on Legislative Mall in Dover, Delaware.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

According to some scholars these five elements or pancha mahabhutas were identified with the various human senses of perception ; earth with smell, air with feeling, fire with vision, water with taste and ether with sound.

According to the New Testament, in AD 49 or 50 the city was visited by the apostle Paul who was guided there by a vision ().

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

According to Sherman Fairchild, Noyce's impassioned presentation of his vision was the reason Fairchild had agreed to create the semiconductor division for the traitorous eight.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

According to Gretzky himself, he always finished dead last in peripheral vision, flexibility and strength, and could only bench press.

" According to Badham, Broderick and Sheedy were " stiff as boards " when they came onto the sound stage, having both Brest's dark vision and the idea that they were going to get fired in their minds.

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.

According to Thomas Taylor, " the dramatic shows of the Lesser Mysteries occultly signified the miseries of the soul while in subjection to the body, so those of the Greater obscurely intimated, by mystic and splendid visions, the felicity of the soul both here and hereafter, when purified from the defilements of a material nature and constantly elevated to the realities of intellectual vision.

According to Aztec legend, in 1323, the Mexicas were shown a vision of an eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, eating a snake.

According to legend, Widukind experienced a vision that led to his conversion.

According to legend, Sully had a vision of a glorious new cathedral for Paris, and sketched it on the ground outside the original church.

According to Catholic theology man has not lost his natural faculties: by the sin of Adam he has been deprived only of the Divine gifts to which his nature had no strict right: the complete mastery of his passions, exemption from death, sanctifying grace, and the vision of God in the next life.

According to the Historia Augusta he abstained from destroying the city after having a vision of Apollonius admonishing him to spare the innocent citizens.

According to SubGenius dogma, " Bob " was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of God ( JHVH-1 according to Church scriptures ) on a television set he had built himself.

According to Dringenberg, his vision calls for a Desire with breasts and a bulge between its legs, and Gaiman's calls for nothing.

According to W. B. Worthen, Six Characters and other Pirandello plays use " Metatheatre — roleplaying, plays-within-plays, and a flexible sense of the limits of stage and illusion — to examine a highly-theatricalized vision of identity ".

According to the historian Socrates of Constantinople, it was introduced into Christian worship by Ignatius of Antioch ( died 107 ) who, in a vision, had seen angels singing in alternating choirs.

According to this vision, research would no longer be driven by the invisible hand of the market.

According to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Lehi is shown the tree of life in a dream or vision before he leaves Jerusalem, between 600 and 592 BC.

According to Sherman Fairchild, Noyce's impassioned presentation of his vision was the reason Sherman Fairchild had agreed to create the semiconductor division for the traitorous eight.

According to the latest urban vision, the tram will cross the railroad in the Rijnsbruger Tunnel instead of the Joop Walenkamp tunnel.

According to Principia Discordia, it was around this time that he and Greg Hill — alias Malaclypse the Younger or Mal-2 — shared their first Eristic vision in a bowling alley in their hometown of Whittier, California.