According to The Natural History " by Pliny the Elder:

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

According to Pliny the Elder, in 467 BCE a large meteorite landed near Aegospotami.

According to Pliny the Elder in Achaea, the garland worn by the winners of the sacred Nemean Games was also made of celery.

According to Pliny, the tomb of the great Etruscan general Lars Porsena contained an underground maze.

According to Pliny the Elder, she used poison mushrooms.

According to Pliny the Elder a vine, a fig and an olive tree grew in the middle of the Roman Forum, the latter was planted to provide shade ( the garden plot was recreated in the 20th century ).

According to The Natural History by Pliny the Elder:

According to Pliny the Elder, Necho's extension to the canal was approximately 57 English miles, equal to the total distance between Bubastis and the Great Bitter Lake, allowing for winding through valleys that it had to pass through.

According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome ( or another city ) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.

According to Pliny the Elder, sard derives its name from the city of Sardis in Lydia, but it more likely comes from the Persian word سرد sered, meaning yellowish-red.

According to Pliny the Elder, that same year a meteorite fell in the town of Aegospotami, in Thrace.

According to Pliny the Elder, the Greek Xenophon of Lampsacus states that the Gorgades ( Cape Verde ) are situated two days from " Hesperu Ceras "-today called Cap-Vert, the westernmost part of the African continent.

According to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time from Atlantis crossing the Gorgades to the islands of the Ladies of the West ( Hesperides ) is around 40 days.

* According to Pliny the Elder, anise was used as a cure for sleeplessness, chewed with alexanders and a little honey in the morning to freshen the breath, and, when mixed with wine, as a remedy for asp bites ( N. H. 20. 72 ).

According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the craftsmen decided to stay and finish the work after the death of their patron " considering that it was at once a memorial of his own fame and of the sculptor's art.

According to Pliny the mausoleum was 63 ft. north and south, shorter on other fronts, 411 ft. circumference, and 25 cubics ( 37 ft. 6 in.

According to Pliny the Elder, the Celts considered it a remedy for barrenness in animals and an antidote to poison.

According to Pliny the Elder it had in ancient times seven distributaries ( east to west ):

According to Pliny the Younger, Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in Ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice was formally banned during the consulship of Publius Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus in 97 BCE, although by this time it was so rare that the decree was largely symbolic.

According to Roman authors such as Pliny the Elder, even through the classical period, Harran maintained an important position in the economic life of Northern Mesopotamia.

According to Pliny, Alexander the Great offered his mistress, Pankaspe, as the model for the nude Venus and later, realizing that Apelles had fallen in love with the girl, gave her to the artist in a gesture of extreme magnanimity.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

According to Klein and Ralston, the merging of companies into giant corporations or the privatization of government-run industry and national assets often result in monopolies ( or oligopolies ) requiring government intervention to force competition and reasonable prices.

According to academic Carlotta Anderson, American individualist anarchists accept that free competition results in unequal wealth distribution, but they " do not see that as an injustice.

According to former Prime Minister Patrick Manning, the nation is the financial capital of the Caribbean, and being so heavily reliant on the oil and energy sectors, fosters and facilitates an environment of constant demand for specialized jobs. In addition, the Natural Gas sector is for the first time facing competition from countries such as Qatar and the United States.

According to Marx, the only way to permanently eliminate unemployment would be to abolish capitalism and the system of forced competition for wages and then shift to a socialist or communist economic system.

According to Herodotus ' account of the Lydian empire under the Mermnads, Arion attended a musical competition in Sicily, which he won.

According to one text book: " On one plane the field is abstract, a set of analytical concepts about competition and monopoly.

According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the word " competition " ( or " concorrenza " in Italian ) in its economic sense.

According to Donald Noel, ethnic stratification will emerge only when specific ethnic groups are brought into contact with one another, and only when those groups are characterized by a high degree of ethnocentrism, competition, and differential power.

According to a Monday, March 15, 2012 online Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article by Eric Schwartzel ,: " Shell Oil Co. announced it will build a massive petrochemical " cracker " plant in Potter, Beaver County, making Pennsylvania the winner in a tri-state competition for the billion-dollar operation.

At the 1964 Venice Film Festival, The Gospel According to St. Matthew was screened in competition for the Golden Lion, and won the OCIC Award and the Special Jury Prize.

According to this theory some navigations were kept secret for fear of competition by neighbouring Castile.

According to Toynbee, " the essence of the Industrial Revolution " was " the substitution of competition for the medieval regulations which had

According to evolutionary theory, this competition within and between species for resources plays a significant role in natural selection.

Since globalization and physical restructuring have contributed to the competition and advent of low-cost offshore assembly in places such as China, and countries in Central America, maquiladoras in Mexico have been on the decline since 2000: According to federal sources, approximately 529 maquiladoras shut down and investment in assembly plants decreased by 8. 2 percent in 2002.

According to professor Frank Partnoy, the regulation of CRAs by the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the FED has eliminated competition between CRAs and practically forced market participants to use the services of the three big agencies, Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch.

According to Lee Nackman, Chief Technology Officer of IBM's Rational division ( originating in 2003 ) at that time, the name " Eclipse " ( dating from at least 2001 ) was not a wordplay on Sun Microsystems, as the product's primary competition at the time of naming was Microsoft Visual Studio.

According to Hymer, market imperfections are structural, arising from structural deviations from perfect competition in the final product market due to exclusive and permanent control of proprietary technology, privileged access to inputs, scale economies, control of distribution systems, and product differentation, but in their absence markets are perfectly efficient.

According to evolutionary theory, this competition within and between species for resources plays a critical role in natural selection.

According to the Centennial Conference's web site: " On June 4, 1981, Keith Spalding, then-president of Franklin & Marshall College, made the announcement that " eight private colleges found it timely and appropriate to form a round-robin football schedule among institutions with similar attitudes and practices in intercollegiate football competition.

According to our ongoing survey of GameRankings. com aggregated review data, Electronic Arts ' overall game quality continues to fall ... Although market share has not declined dramatically to date, in years such as 2007, which promises to have tremendous competition, it seems likely if quality does not improve.

According to Byman, " there were no fewer than ninety-six " other companies in competition during that period, and included some of Hollywood's biggest names: Frank Capra, John Ford, William Wyler, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, and George Stevens.

According to Yorke, the track " Just " from The Bends was " a competition by me and Jonny to get as many chords as possible into a song ".