According to the author Garry Boulard in his book Abraham Lincoln Ascendent, it was Sherman's 1859 endorsement of the controversial anti-slavery book, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton Helper, that doomed Sherman's chances of becoming Speaker.

According to a false legend, Muhlenberg as House Speaker prevented German from becoming an official language of the United States.

According to Edmond Ludlow on May 7th, about twelve o-clock we went to take our places in the House, Mr. Lenthal our Speaker leading the way, and the officers of the army lining the rooms for us, as we passed through the Painted Chamber, the Court of Requests, and the lobby itself, the principal officers having placed themselves nearest to the door of the Parliament-House, every one seeming to rejoice at our restitution, and promising to live and die with us.

According to some MPs, Conservatives believe that Bercow has behaved in a biased manner as Speaker.

According to a paper by Besebes on the library, prepared for the 62nd IFLA Conference, " The Congress Library is organized as one of the Joint Programs under the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates.

According to the 1835 Constitution, if a governor died or left office, the Speaker of the Senate was to assume the post ( the lieutenant governor position was not created until the 1868 Constitution ).

According to the temporary Constitution of Lithuania, Landsbergis had constitutional authority over both the Leader of the State and the Speaker of the Parliament.

According to Spencer Fordin, " the two-time All-Star became one of four players all-time – along with Hall of Famers Tris Speaker, Paul Waner, and Stan Musial – to amass three 50-double seasons in his career.

According to one Western journalist, another explanation for his prosecution was that Nouri was very popular in Tehran and " the odds on favorite to become Speaker of Parliament in the February 2000 Parliamentary election ," something imprisonment would prevent.

According to the Regency Act 1937, if " the following persons or any three or more of them, that is to say, the wife or husband of the Sovereign, the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chief Justice of England, and the Master of the Rolls, declare in writing that they are satisfied by evidence which shall include the evidence of physicians that the Sovereign is by reason of infirmity of mind or body incapable for the time being of performing the royal functions or that they are satisfied by evidence that the Sovereign is for some definite cause not available for the performance of those functions, then, until it is declared in like manner that His Majesty has so far recovered His health as to warrant His resumption of the royal functions or has become available for the performance thereof, as the case may be, those functions shall be performed in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign by a Regent.

According to Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta and New York City Clerk Michael McSweeney, " same sex-marriages in New York City have generated an estimated $ 259 million in economic impact and $ 16 million in City revenues " in the first year after the enactment of the Marriage Equality Act.

According to Brown, Pringle was the last Speaker to wield broad power in that office, since rule changes immediately after Pringle's tenure transferred much of the Speaker's authority to committee chairmen.

According to Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, it was at the Luciano meeting, held in the Grand Hotel et des Palmes in Palermo, Sicily, that a plan was put into place through which Sicilians were responsible for distributing heroin in the U. S., while the American mobsters collected a share of the income as " franchise fees ".

En-route they would reportedly hold corroborees at the current site of the Pymble Reservoir in Telegraph Rd and " camped on the hill ... at the junction of Merrivale Rd and Selwyn St ." According to Robert Pymble II " the Aborigines had faded out by about 1856, mainly because of smallpox.

According to Tom Selwyn, the most authoritative voice on the topography of Rachel's tomb, R. A. S. Macalister advanced the view in 1912 that the identification with Bethlehem was based on a copyist's mistake.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to Lloyd, Owain and Margaret had five sons and four ( p. 211 ) or five ( p. 199 ) daughters:

According to Adams ' account in The Salmon of Doubt, the idea behind The Meaning of Liff grew out of an old school game, and started when he and Lloyd were on holiday together.

According to John Lloyd Stephens, who visited the site in the 1830s, the temple base measured square and it stood high.

According to Steinman in an interview, Andrew Lloyd Webber approached him to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera because Lloyd Webber felt that his " dark obsessive side " fit in with the project.

According to the sheet music, it was " written around a Fort Niagara fragment " by Robert Lloyd, " Army song leader.

According to anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner, the upper class in the United States during the 1930s was divided into the upper-upper and the lower-upper classes.

According to Lloyd, the private had failed to take the extra precaution that experienced soldiers did when they grabbed M-26 grenades from the ammo box: bend the pins, or tape them in place, so they couldn't accidentally dislodge.

According to Smillie, Lloyd George said:

According to John Lloyd, the writer of the sketch was Peter Brewis, who was a disillusioned writer for The Two Ronnies.

According to Sir John Edward Lloyd, the challenges of campaigning in Wales were exposed during the 20 year Norman invasion of Wales.

According to Herbert Marshall Lloyd, an attorney and editor of Morgan's works, Lewis was descended from James Morgan, brother of Miles, who were Welsh pioneers of Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts, respectively.

According to a Washington Post article by Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward entitled Doing Well with Help from Family, Friends, ( August 11, 1988 ) when Bush was running against Lloyd Bentsen for senator in 1970, Kerr advised Bush on a proposed business deal involving a loan request from a man named Victor Flaherty, who needed money to buy Fidelity Printing Company.

According to Roy Hattersley ( David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider ; Little Brown, 2010 ) Lloyd George grew up in a branch based in North Wales, in the nineteenth century.

According to Banks, Interscope is trying to get him back due to the success of the single " Beamer, Benz, or Bentley ", but failed when Lloyd Banks revealed that he had signed a deal with EMI.

According to the historian John Holway, Lloyd batted. 337 ( 970 hits in 2881 at bats ) in the Negro leagues.

According to a recent study sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame that covers the organized ( post-1920 ) Negro leagues, Lloyd batted. 343 with a. 450 slugging percentage.

According to his daughter, he stayed with her for a few weeks, during which time Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft made contact to say they were writing him into the next series.

According to Wisden in his debut series, Holding " had shown himself to be Roberts ' natural opening partner and indeed was timed to be faster than Thomson, Lillee and Roberts ", and considered that when West Indies captain Clive Lloyd chose to give Julien the new ball rather than Holding it was a mistake that cost the West Indies the match.

According to the current resident, Ms. Tilghman ( a descendent of the Lloyd family ), it served as a billiards room for the family.

According to Howard Bryant of the Washington Post, citing NFL. com, " Lloyd suffered through the worst season for a starting receiver in the Super Bowl era ... No starting No. 2 wide receiver in the NFL started more games ( 12 ) while producing less ( 23 catches, 365 yards ).

According to former U. S. Senator Lloyd Meeds of Everett, " the fishing issue was to Washington state what busing was to the East " during the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).

According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

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 Geoffrey Keating, the main Beltane fire in medieval Ireland was on the hill of Uisneach, in what is now County Westmeath.

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah ( now called Yehud ) as a holy community ruled by priests.

According to Ivinskaya, The graveside service now began.

According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

According to certain authorities, twelve teeth of the saint were taken from the tomb in the fifteenth century and kept in the treasury, but these have now disappeared ( Stokes, Apennines, p. 183 ).

According to World Forum on Democracy, electoral democracies now represent 120 of the 192 existing countries and constitute 58. 2 percent of the world's population.

According to the modern scholar Pat Southern, however, some historians now see him in a more positive light.

According to the act of settlement of 1499, George's Protestant brother Heinrich was now heir prospective ; but George, disregarding his father's will, sought to disinherit his brother and to bequeath the duchy to Ferdinand, brother of Charles V. His sudden death prevented the carrying out of this intention.

According to Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4. 4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, " It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today ".

According to a popular theory, Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play — now lost — known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

According to Caesar, those killed had been the Tigurini, on whom he had now taken revenge in the name of the Republic and his family.

According to the account in Kings ( and its derivative account in Chronicles ) the judgment of God now fell on the Assyrian army and wiped out 180, 000 of its men.

According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has " leveled off " as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

( According to the prose introduction to the poem Tyr is now one-handed from having his arm bitten off by Loki's son Fenrir while Fenrir was bound.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics ( now the Australian Bureau of Statistics ), " In common with other natives, the islanders are very susceptible to tuberculosis and influenza, and in 1921 an influenza epidemic caused the deaths of 230 islanders.

According to the now defunct Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Prime Minister is made a Privy Counsellor as a result of taking office and should be addressed by the official title prefixed by " The Right Honourable " and not by a personal name.

According to C. Stace, " slaves in Plautus account for almost twice as much monologue as any other character ... this is a significant statistic ; most of the monologues being, as they are, for purposes of humor, moralizing, or exposition of some kind, we can now begin to see the true nature of the slave's importance.

According to a survey by the University of London, one in ten people are now leaving their passwords in their wills to pass on this important information when they die.