According to the character Badamon, the Jewel of Life is one of the three weapons that could destroy the Nether Realm.

According to author John Helyar, in The Lords of the Realm, Messersmith was also deeply offended by general manager Al Campanis " inject ( ing ) a personal issue " into the talks ( it " cut so deeply with him ," Helyar has written, that Messersmith since has never been able to bring himself to disclose or discuss it ), and the pitcher refused to deal with anyone lower than team president Peter O ' Malley.

According to the city's website, the Slavs in the city were discriminated, and their rights in trade and crafts were limited, with bans on performing certain types of professions and taking certain positions in the city

According the German chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, the decades long forced Germanization and Christianization of the Slavs associated with these two churches was the reason for their destruction.

According to historian Dušan Třeštík, the first Slavs came through Moravian Gate ( Moravská brána ) valley and in 530 moved into the eastern Bohemia and along rivers Labe and Vltava further into central Bohemia.

According to sixth century Byzantine emperor Mauricius's Strategikon wrote of the Slavs:

According to data from the 1989 Soviet census, the population of the Soviet Union was 70 % East Slavs, 12 % Turkic peoples, and all other ethnic groups below 10 %.

According to the 1775 Austrian census, the province had a total population of 86, 000, made up mostly of Romanians ( Moldovans ), and up to 10, 000 Slavs ( Polish, Ruthenians and Hutzuls ).

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the term was used predominantly to refer to East Slavs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or to Ukrainians or Little Russians of the Russian Empire as opposed to Great Russians centered on Moscow.

According to the 13th-century Gesta Hungarorum (" Deeds of the Hungarians "), at the time of the Hungarian invasion Transylvania was inhabited by Romanians and Slavs and ruled by Gelou, " a certain Romanian ", while Crişana was inhabited by several peoples, among them Székelys.

According to Procopius, these Slavs worshipped a single deity, who crafted lightning and thunder.

According to Thietmar, this was the most sacred place in the land of pagan Slavs, and Svarožič was their most important deity.

According to the contemporary sources of Christian missionaries of the early Middle Ages, particularly of Saxo Grammaticus who gave a detailed account of Svetovid's great temple on the island of Rügen, the pagan Slavs held a great festival each summer in honor of Svetovid.

According to Polish archaeologist Michał Parczewski, Slavs began to settle in southeastern Poland no earlier than the late 5th century AD, the Prague culture being their recognizable expression.

According to author Paul N. Hehn, " the treaty left half a million Slavs inside Italy while only a few hundred Italians in the fledgling Yugoslav state ".

According to DAI a second migration of Slavs into the Balkans, of Serbs and Croats, occurred c. 610-640 A. D.

According to historical documents, the Slavs invaded and settled in parts of Greece beginning in 579 and Byzantium nearly lost control of the entire peninsula during the 580s.

According to Bernard of Clairvaux, the goal of the crusade was to battle the pagan Slavs " until such a time as, by God's help, they shall either be converted or deleted ".

According to that interpretation, Avars were a thin layer of military aristocracy in that state / alliance, while the Slavs were a military caste – warriors ( i. e. not a nation or ethnicity in the proper sense of that word ).

According to a traditional legend, first recorded by the ancient Czech chronicler Cosmas of Prague in the early 12th century, Říp was the place where the first Slavs, led by Praotec Čech ( Forefather Bohemus ), settled.

According to Nazi racial theories the Slavs needed no higher education and the whole nation was to be turned into uneducated serfs for the German race.

According to him, " king al-Dir was the first among the kings of the Saqaliba ( is arabic for Slavs ).

According to the 1720 data, 88 % of the population of the town were South Slavs ( mostly Serbs, but also some South Slavic Catholics ).

According to Cvijić the true Bulgarians were " different from the other South Slavs in their ethnic composition ".

According to the anonymous author of the Gesta, Transylvania was inhabited by Vlachs and Slavs at that time.

According to the Annals of St-Bertin, in 853 Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, bribed the Bulgarians to ally with the Slavs ( apparently the Moravians ) and together attack Louis the German's kingdom.

According to Merriam-Webster's, " vernacular " was brought into the English language as early as 1601 from Latin vernaculus, " native ", which had been in figurative use in Classical Latin as " national " and " domestic ", having originally been derived from vernus and verna, a male or female slave respectively born in the house rather than abroad.

According to Jean-Michel Cantacuzène, the origin of the Cantacuzino family in Romania is traced to Andronikos Kantakouzenos ( d 1601 ), a greek financier from Constantinople, son of the " Prince of the Greeks " Michael Kantakouzenos.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

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 Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

According to Philippoff, the recoverable shear S is given by Af where **yc is the angle of extinction.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

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

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

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 the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

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