According to an editorial by Michael Smith for the New Statesman, this was " Located at the furthest extreme of the southern no-fly zone, far away from the areas that needed to be patrolled to prevent attacks on the Shi ' a ; it was destroyed not because it was a threat to the patrols, but to allow allied special forces operating from Jordan to enter Iraq undetected.

According to the Statesman, it was the first time in over a decade that the governor's race has not already been decided 10 days prior to the election.

According to New Statesman this was " Located at the furthest extreme of the southern no-fly zone, far away from the areas that needed to be patrolled to prevent attacks on the Shias, it was destroyed not because it was a threat to the patrols, but to allow allied special forces operating from Jordan to enter Iraq undetected.

According to The Statesman, the official government newspaper which usually played down the size of crowds at Gandhi's functions, 100, 000 people crowded the road that separated Sabarmati from Ahmadabad.

According to this book, Johnson filed 54 overseas reports during his Statesman years.

: According to the City of Austin's History Center, the phrase first appeared in The Austin American Statesman on May 5th, 1890.

According to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 209 species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and plants are endangered.

According the International Water Management Institute and UNEP, well-managed agroecosystems not only provide food, fibre and animal products, they also provide services such as flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, erosion control and habitats for plants, birds fish and other animals.

According to Turner and co-authors Norell and Peter Makovicky, quill knobs are not found in all prehistoric birds, and their absence does not mean that an animal was not feathered – flamingos, for example, have no quill knobs.

According to the Mahabharata, Garuda had six sons from whom were descended the race of birds.

According to psychologist Menachem Brayer, although many " mammals, birds, and insects exchange caresses " which appear to be kisses of affection ( e. g. lovebirds ), they are not kisses as humans consider them.

According to the Tanakh, doves are kosher, and they are the only birds that may be used for a korban.

According to one tradition, refuse was stored on the lowest of the ark's three decks, humans and clean beasts on the second, and the unclean animals and birds on the top ; a differing interpretation described the refuse as being stored on the utmost deck, from where it was shoveled into the sea through a trapdoor.

According to analysis, magpies do not form the monophyletic group they are traditionally believed to be — a long tail has certainly elongated ( or shortened ) independently in multiple lineages of corvid birds.

According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in 2006 about 670, 000 animals ( 57 %) ( not including rats, mice, birds, or invertebrates ) were used in procedures that did not include more than momentary pain or distress.

According to local legend in the Birecik area, the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the first birds that Noah released from the Ark as a symbol of fertility, and a lingering religious sentiment in Turkey helped the colonies there to survive long after the demise of the species in Europe.

According to figures of cranes wintering in Spain, around 48 % birds have surviving young by the time they winter and around 18 % are leading two young by winter.

According to National Geographic, when migrating these birds can fly at altitudes of 8 km ( nearly 27, 000 ft ); Tundra Swan flocks usually fly in V formation.

According to two studies published in 2006, the loss of intertidal mudflats has resulted in the numbers and diversity of the birds using Cardiff Bay greatly reducing.

According to Pliny the Elder, the realism of his paintings was such that birds tried to eat the painted grapes.

According to a lengthy scientific study by the RSPB, ' Celtic ' crossbills differ in bill size from other crossbill species found in Great Britain, and they have also been found to have a distinct Scottish accent or call, thought to be the method used by the birds to make sure they only attract and pair with potential mates of the same race.

According to studies by Arnaiz-Villena et al., all birds belonging to the genus Pyrrhula have a common ancestor: Pinicola enucleator.

According to the Denver Post, he also cared for injured birds and animals.

According to the official website, " many of the sea birds housed in this area will never return to the wild due to severe disabilities which have been caused mostly by mans ’ ignorance and careless ways.

According to Josephus, the violence, which began at Caesarea in 66, was provoked by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue.

According to the Latin narrative, finally, Manes on his return to Arabion was seized and taken to the Persian king, by whose orders he was flayed, his body being left to the birds, and his skin, filled with air, hung at the city gate.

According to Klauber ( 1936, 1971, 1972 ), prey items more frequently taken include rabbits, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, chipmunks, prairie dogs, gophers, rats and mice, while those less frequently taken include birds, snakes and amphibians.

According to its current IUCN classification EN C2a ( ii ), fewer than 2500 adult birds remain, and most of these are found in the region where the borders of China, North Korea and Russia meet.

According to legend, he could understand the speech of birds and had a sparrow that gathered news for him from many lands.

According to the FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency Situation Update, H5N1 pathogenicity is continuing to gradually rise in endemic areas, but the avian influenza disease situation in farmed birds is being held in check by vaccination.

According to the team's website, " Through its name of the Club identified itself with one of the national birds of the country – the Oil or Devil Bird-which lives in the Aripo Caves.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

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

According to the formulations of Daniels, abjads differ from alphabets in that only consonants, not vowels, are represented among the basic graphemes.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

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

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

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

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 Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to Hume, the difference between the two is that ideas are less vivacious than impressions.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

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

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to Kant, beauty is objective and universal ; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.

According to the study, more than nine out of 10 consumers are familiar with and have tried these foods, and about half report eating them frequently.

According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and three of his sons are said to have landed at a place called Cymensora and fought against the local Britons.