According to David Ownby, religion has, since 1912, been defined to refer to " world-historical faiths " that have " well-developed institutions, clergy, and textual traditions "— namely, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism.

According to David Ownby, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, Li became an " instant star of the qigong movement ", and Falun Gong was embraced by the government as an effective means of lowering health care costs, promoting Chinese culture, and improving public morality.

According to the great treatise of the 1760s by William Blackstone entitled Commentaries on the Laws of England:

According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, a court is constituted by a minimum of three parties: the actor or plaintiff, who complains of an injury done ; the reus or defendant, who is called upon to make satisfaction for it, and the judex or judicial power, which is to examine the truth of the fact, to determine the law arising upon that fact, and, if any injury appears to have been done, to ascertain and by its officers to apply a legal remedy.

According to the Commentaries those whose views were rejected include the Sarvastivada.

According to Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life, she had several brothers, two of whom are Frederick ( in the book ), Joe ( who appears in the movies ) and an illegitimate brother named Willie Humphrey, to whom she was briefly married.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

According to the formulations of Daniels, abjads differ from alphabets in that only consonants, not vowels, are represented among the basic graphemes.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to Arminius, " God regards no one in Christ unless they are engrafted in him by faith.

According to SonyBMG, there are no plans to release The Sicilian Defence.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to Hume, the difference between the two is that ideas are less vivacious than impressions.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to Kant, beauty is objective and universal ; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.

According to the study, more than nine out of 10 consumers are familiar with and have tried these foods, and about half report eating them frequently.

According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and three of his sons are said to have landed at a place called Cymensora and fought against the local Britons.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

According to British diplomatic papers, Pius ' letter was addressed to Bishop Rubeira and confirms Urban's observation that the condemnation relates to new converts being enslaved.

According to reports, the Conservative party's links to far-right parties within Europe has caused a " host of condemnation " from Jewish groups in the US ; Ira Forman, chief executive of the National Jewish Democratic Council, stated that " There is obviously concern in the US when there is legitimacy conferred on individuals and political parties that have had some association with anti-Semitism.

According to Frederick Calder, " condemnation the Remonstrant doctrines was determined before the national synod met.

According to the New Testament Gospels, it was John the Baptist's condemnation of this arrangement that led Antipas to have him arrested ; John was subsequently put to death.

According to Barakat, he was subject to widespread condemnation from faculty and his office was " flooded with hatemail.

According to the New Testament Gospels, it was John the Baptist's condemnation of this arrangement that led Antipas to have him arrested ; John was subsequently put to death.

According to the state-run North Korean news agency KCNA website, the DPRK resumed the processing of fuel rods to recover plutonium at Yongbyon on 25 April 2009 in response to the UN's condemnation of its recent rocket launch.

According to UNAIDS, it stated that circumcision was unnecessary for Christians ; El-Hout and Khauli, however, regard it as condemnation of the procedure.

According to Peter of Cluny, Henry's teaching is summed up as follows: rejection of the doctrinal and disciplinary authority of the church ; recognition of the Gospel freely interpreted as the sole rule of faith ; condemnation of the baptism of infants, of the eucharist, of the sacrifice of the mass, of the communion of saints, and of prayers for the dead ; and refusal to recognize any form of worship or liturgy.

According to FAIR, the Washington Posts decision to withhold the locations of these secret prisons was that since the revelations " could open the U. S. government to legal challenges, particularly in foreign courts, and increase the risk of political condemnation at home and abroad ," the Post did its part to minimize these risks.

According to an article in Haaretz, Bukay also wrote in the same book: “ There is no condemnation, no regret, no problem of conscience among Arabs and Muslims, anywhere, in any social stratum, of any social position ”.