According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to Newton's law of gravity, and independently verified by experiments such as that of Eötvös and its successors ( see Eötvös experiment ), there is a universality of free fall ( also known as the weak equivalence principle, or the universal equality of inertial and passive-gravitational mass ): the trajectory of a test body in free fall depends only on its position and initial speed, but not on any of its material properties.

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 Eichenwald, preceding the investigation Whitacre was scammed by a group in Nigeria in an advance fee fraud, and suggests that Whitacre's losses in the scam may have been the initial reason behind his embezzlement activity at ADM.

According to the initial measure, starting in 2012, each coffee shop was to operate like a private club with some 1, 000 to 1, 500 members.

According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, " In its initial form, a lot of stuff was innovative and exciting.

According to their initial announcement in 2008, PS 2. 0 is to exist in tandem with the printed version, while allowing more rapid updating of hosting information and networking features.

According to one interpretation, as the result of a measurement the wave function containing the probability information for a system collapses from a given initial state to a particular eigenstate.

According to the official accident report, after the first officer made his initial rudder pedal input, he made a series of alternating full rudder inputs.

According to Doenecke, rather than follow his initial instinct for Republican conciliation, Garfield sided with Sec.

According to initial police statements, at this point one or more of the suspects began firing with automatic handguns and Trooper Foerster fired four times before falling mortally wounded.

According to general relativity, the initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang, was a singularity.

According to the plan put before the first session of the First Congress, Hamilton proposed establishing the initial funding for the Bank of the United States through the sale of $ 10 million in stock of which the United States government would purchase the first $ 2 million in shares.

According to Martinson, he dictated the initial cycle as in a fever after a troubling dream, affected by the Cold War and the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolution ; in another version, the first 29 cantos were said to be inspired by an astronomic observation of Andromeda Galaxy.

According to one biographer, Jack Warner's initial doubts about the project were quelled when he met Rin Tin Tin, " who seemed to display more intelligence than some of the Warner comics.

According to Joseph Jordania, the initial function of ritualistic behaviors in human evolutionary prehistory was to achieve the altered state of consciousness in hominid brain, in order to transform individual hominids into a group of dedicated individuals with a single collective identity.

According to all this testimony, her initial victims were the adolescent daughters of local peasants, many of whom were lured to Csejte by offers of well-paid work as maidservants in the castle.

According to a range of Medical journals there is also an often under-emphasized potential for Post-acute-withdrawal syndrome which may last until after the initial short-term.

According to the historian Asser, Guthrum ’ s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was able to capture “ the castellum ” as well as the ancient square earthworks known as the “ Wareham ” where a convent of nuns existed.

According to food writer Karen Hursh Graber, the initial introduction of rice to Spain from North Africa in the 14th century led to the Spanish introduction of rice to Mexico at the port of Veracruz in the 1520s.

According to Moe, the initial treatment of the script was originated by Moe ; on its strength, the studio decided to produce the Stooges ' next film sooner than scheduled.

According to the same poll retaken in April 2007, 58 % of the participants stated that the initial attack was a mistake.

According to the initial edition, the

According to her initial story, they had been drinking wine Kalstedt had brought over and got into an argument.

" According to Clark Clifford, at the time of the initial attacks, the reaction of the U. S. military leadership " approached panic ".

According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

According to the Dutch philosopher Marius de Geus, ecological utopias could be sources of inspiration for green political movements.

According to producer Hiroshi Iuchi, the main inspiration for the game's design was Image Fight, an arcade game by Irem from 1988.

According to Thomas Schatz, Ford claimed that his inspiration in expanding Stagecoach beyond the barebones plot given in " The Stage to Lordsburg " was his familiarity with another short story, " Boule de Suif " by Guy de Maupassant.

According to Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers -- The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney, Halliburton's message to seek one's destiny abroad, and to embrace romantic enterprises, drew its chief inspiration, as did the new cult of youth emerging after World War I, from poet Rupert Brooke.

According to Angkor scholar George Coedès, Theravada Buddhism's denial of the ultimate reality of the individual served to sap the vitality of the royal personality cult which had provided the inspiration for the grand monuments of Angkor.

According to an NPR story on the Lone Ranger, Tonto Basin is the inspiration of Tonto, the native American companion to the Lone Ranger.

According to Bunny Wailer, Tosh was critical to the band because he was a self-taught guitarist and keyboardist, and thus became an inspiration for the other band members to learn to play.

According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

According to Charlotte Rampling, Bogarde was approached in 1990 by Madonna to appear in her video for Justify My Love, citing The Night Porter as an inspiration.

According to Black he got his inspiration to invent the negative feedback amplifier when he was traveling from New Jersey to New York City by taking a ferry to cross the Hudson River in August 1927.

According to many interpreters, the philosophical inspiration of the celibate, otherworldly character of the monastic knight Galahad came from this monastic order set up by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

According to Mahler's widow, Alma, Mahler took inspiration for this movement from the 1872 painting by Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin entitled: Self-Portrait with Death playing the Fiddle.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, it is " probably the most widely read book among far-right extremists ; many have cited it as the inspiration behind their terrorist organizing and activity.

According to church teaching the Liberal Catholic Church draws the central inspiration of its work from an earnest faith in the living Christ.

According to Trungpa, it was his intention to propagate the kingdom of Shambala that provided the necessary inspiration to leave his homeland and make the arduous journey to India and the West.

According to a NODA National News feature in 2007, the Murgatroyd family are reputed to be the inspiration for the Murgatroyd Baronets in the comic opera Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan, and the opera has been performed at the Hall.

According to the group's website, McCartney got the inspiration for Promise Keepers on March 20, 1990, while he was attending a Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet in Pueblo, Colorado, during a conversation with Dave Wardell, who was also in attendance at the event.

According to Jim Bambra, " While primarily drawing on Japan for inspiration, also contains elements of medieval China and Korea.

According to a city spokesperson, the radish was seen as an inspiration due to " its tenacity and strong will to live.

According to Union statements, they believe " the true humanity and Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ ; the atonement made on the cross by our Lord for the sin of the world ; the person of the Holy Spirit as the one who sets apart, empowers, and imparts spiritual gifts to the church ; the inspiration of the Bible and its authority in all matters of faith and practice ; salvation and membership in the Church by faith in Christ alone ; membership of the church for the regenerate ; the immersion of believers as the scriptural form of water baptism.

According to Ron Cabral's biography on Country Joe and the Fish, Seven was the subject of and inspiration behind the song Silver and Gold.

According to Irenæus, Cerinthus, a man educated in the wisdom of the Egyptians, claimed angelic inspiration.

According to Thomas Steinbeck, the older son of John Steinbeck, the inspiration for " On the Road " was Steinbeck's Travels with Charley ( whose title was initially considered as the name of Kuralt's feature ).

According to the legend, the master mason did not believe that the apprentice could perform the complicated task of carving the column without seeing the original which formed the inspiration for the design.