According to the Tanakh, however, Ahab with 7, 000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his thirty-two kings, who had come to lay siege to Samaria, and in the following year obtained a decisive victory over him at Aphek, probably in the plain of Sharon at Antipatris ( 1 Kings 20 ).

According to Israeli law, if a Prime Minister is temporarily incapacitated rather than dies ( as was the case following Ariel Sharon's stroke in early 2006 ), power is transferred to the Acting Prime Minister, until the prime minister recovers ( Ehud Olmert took over from Sharon ), for up to 100 days.

According to food writer Sharon Tyler Herbst, it is so called because originally it was eaten with the thumb and forefinger, and retrieving and eating the condiment resembled the actions of a pecking rooster.

According to Sharon Holmes, during the first 17 months of Sharon's marriage to John, she suffered three miscarriages.

* According to recent published Associated Press news reports, former Witchblade actress, Yancy Butler currently resides in Sharon.

According to local legend, the community received its name from a Bible-reading settler who likened the location to the Plain of Sharon in Israel.

According to The Times, " Trevor Nunn, the theatre director, was divorced yesterday by his wife Sharon Lee Hill.

According to Kristian Hoffman, " Timur sang Total Eclipse to the utter befuddlement of the panel of judges, with the exception of Sharon Osbourne who gave some encouragement ".

* According to the final chapter of From Minor to Major, Sharon Bott was three months pregnant in July 1989, meaning that Glenn Bott-Mole was born around January 1990.

According to an annotation of Song of Solomon 2: 1 by the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, " Rose of Sharon " is a mistranslation of a more general Hebrew word for " crocus ".

According to published books, including Sweethearts by Sharon Rich and The Golden Girls Of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne, Gene Raymond engaged in numerous affairs with men and their marriage was problematic.

According to Sharon Turner in The History of the Anglo-Saxons ( 4 vols., 1799-1805 ), they were believed to be derived from " Ochus Bochus ," a magician and demon of the north. andSome have suggested the phrase predated His Majesties Hocus Pocus, being corrupted from the name of a demonic sorcerer of Norse folklore, Ochus Bochus.

According to science writer Sharon Begley of Newsweek magazine, Maharishi and, by extension, the researchers affiliated with Maharishi University of Management helped launch the field of mind-body medicine.

According to Mills & Boon author Sharon Kendrick, " the sheikh represents the ultimate female fantasy – dark, autocratic, completely powerful, outrageously chauvinistic.

According to the box description, Project Supernova resumed following the Sharon Apple incident ; this prototype being the third test unit.

According to the University of Canterbury's Sharon McIver, the commercial success of bands like Fat Freddy ’ s Drop and TrinityRoots is due to their lack of " overt political messages ," or otherwise " in your face " lyrics.

According to the Windham Historical Society, the name of the township " was changed to Sharon, by an act of legislature in about 1820 ….

" According to Sharon Packer, Hippler used this scene to assert that " Jews transmit inheritable criminality and therefore deserve to die.

According to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ( CAMERA ), there is no record of any Israeli general named " Ouze Merham " existing, nor any record of Sharon giving such an interview in 1956.

According to Edwin Reischauer, and Marius Jansen, some 70 – 80 % of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.

According to Jansen and Tucker, writing in the same ART ( assisted reproductive technologies ) textbook referenced above, the risk of OHSS varies with the clinic administering the hormones, from 6. 6 to 8. 4 % of cycles, half of them " severe.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

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

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

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 Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

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

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

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 this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to the 2009 CIA World Factbook, there are a total of 43 airports in Belgium, 27 of which have paved runways.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2004 there were only 479, 000 telephone subscribers in the country of nearly 11 million people, with. 061 main lines per 1000 inhabitants.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to this understanding, the self can not be reduced to a bundle because there is nothing that answers to the concept of a self.

According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as President, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of business development, while all software development was continuing to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there.

According to Ethnologue, there are over 40 million L2 speakers

According to these scholars, there was something they variously call " earliest Buddhism ", " original Buddhism " or " pre-canonical Buddhism ".

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

According to Okrent ( 2009, p. 190 ), there was a final period of conflict, as Bliss would make continuous criticisms to McNaughton often followed by apologies.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.