According to contemporary biographers Theodore Beza and Nicolas Colladon, Gérard believed his son would earn more money as a lawyer than as a priest.

" According to one of his biographers, al-Wahrani, Saladin was able to answer questions on Euclid, the Almagest, arithmetic, and law, but this was an academic ideal and it was study of the Qur ' an and the " sciences of religion " that linked him to his contemporaries.

According to biographers, Saddam never forgot the tensions within the first Ba ' athist government, which formed the basis for his measures to promote Ba ' ath party unity as well as his resolve to maintain power and programs to ensure social stability.

According to his biographers, he supervised the repair of Kiyosu Castle, a claim described as " apocryphal ", and managed the kitchen.

According to biographers, Harding got along better with the press than any other previous President, being a former newspaperman.

According to his biographers, King lacked the typical personal attributes of great leaders, especially in comparison with Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U. S., Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Charles de Gaulle of France, or even Joey Smallwood of Newfoundland.

According to some biographers, his grandfather, Matthias Dillinger, emigrated to the United States in 1851 from Metz, in the region of Alsace-Lorraine, then under French sovereignty.

According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves ( born March 21, 1986 ), at the premiere of Pale Rider.

According to one of her biographers Mark Strage, Catherine was the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe.

According to his biographers, Dark and Grey, Gilbert also drew on some of his earlier verse, the Bab Ballads for some plot elements.

According to Hayworth's biographers this erotic dance routine was " the most demanding of her entire career ", necessitating " endless takes and retakes ".

According to Bercé and Otteni, the biographers and contemporaries of Leo XII do not mention any interdict.

According to most of his biographers, Nasser adored his mother and the injury of her death deepened when his father remarried before the year ended.

" According to one of his biographers, Fox's " loyalties were not national but were offered to people like himself at home or abroad ".

According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.

According to Mitchel's biographers, an outburst of passion followed this speech, and several voices exclaimed, " Yes, Mitchel, for thousands.

According to biographers, her father was dismissed from the civil service in 1853, two years after Cixi entered the Forbidden City, for allegedly not resisting the Taiping Rebellion in Anhui Province and deserting his post.

According to Ibn Hisham and al-Waqidi, 9th-century biographers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Banu Nadir and Banu Qaynuqa tribes immigrated to Adhri ' at following their expulsion from Medina.

According to Andropov's biographers the anti-corruption campaigned launched by him was inspired by Shervardnadze's Georgian anti-corruption campaign.

According to her biographers her parents were Dubhthach, a Pagan chieftain of Leinster, and Brocca, a Christian Pict and slave who had been baptised by Saint Patrick.

According to biographers, Solomon Sturges was " diametrically opposite to Mary and her bohemianism ".

According to one of his biographers, his mother decided “ he should let his hair grow, like Samson in the Bible .” She curled it regularly.

According to Mason Drukman, one of Morse's biographers, even after the two men had become senators, neither could get past what had happened in 1931.

According to his official biographers, he continued his sadhana under teachers of Tantra, Vedanta and Vaishnava.

According to many critics, such an unusual division of labor caused serious command and control problems.

According to these critics who use data from the 1997 poll, the poverty rate rises to 29 %.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

According to some textual critics, it was subsequently translated into Greek and added to later Greek manuscripts.

According to the documentary hypothesis, use of names of God indicates authorship, and form critics variously assign passages like Genesis chapter 26, verses 6-11 to the Yahwist source, and Genesis chapter 20 verses 1-7, chapter 21, verse 1 to chapter 22, verse 14 and chapter 22, verse 19 to the Elohist source ; this source-critical approach has admitted problems, in that the name " Yahweh " appears in Elohist material.

According to critics, Hoover tended to exaggerate the dangers of these alleged subversives and many times overstepped his bounds in his pursuit of eliminating that perceived threat.

According to some critics, the second stanza of the poem, forming a conclusion, was composed at a later date and was possibly disconnected from the original dream.

According to his critics, Friedman did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.

According to critics, research will run the risk of simply reproducing the horrendous effects of the social ideologies ( such as Nazism or Social Darwinism ) justified in part on claimed hereditary racial differences .< ref name =" AAA 1994 ">

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

According to Zhao, through The Epoch Times it can be discerned how Falun Gong is building a " de facto media alliance " with China's democracy movements in exile, as demonstrated by its frequent printing of articles by prominent overseas Chinese critics of the PRC government.

Through his language, he tends to characterize Rome as “ masculine ” and Egypt as “ feminine .” According to Gayle Greene, “ the ‘ feminine ’ world of love and personal relationships is secondary to the ‘ masculine ’ world of war and politics, has kept us from realizing that Cleopatra is the play ’ s protagonist, and so skewed our perceptions of character, theme, and structure .” The highlighting of these starkly contrasting qualities of the two backdrops of Antony and Cleopatra, in both Shakespeare ’ s language and the words of critics, brings attention to the characterization of the title characters, since their respective countries are meant to represent and emphasize their attributes.

According to critics, the two-week timeline and quasi-democratic composition of the convention is evidence of an attempt by John Howard to frustrate the republican cause.

According to some Bible critics who contextually read this passage, the description of Onan is an origin myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with the death of Onan reflecting the dying out of a clan ; Er and Onan are hence viewed as each being representative of a clan, with Onan possibly representing an Edomite clan named Onam, mentioned by an Edomite genealogy in Genesis.

According to some critics, the film also portrays abortion inaccurately, suggesting that it is inherently harmful to patients both physically and mentally.

According to critics such as Albert Goldman, "' nothing in the house is worth a dime.

According to several music critics and historians, Marvin Gaye's career " spanned the entire history of rhythm and blues from fifties doo-wop to eighties contemporary soul.

According to the critics, the appointment of this and successive governments consisting of aisle-crossers instead of the proclamation of new elections, caused a constitutional crisis and political instability that lasted for more than two years and led to the dictatorship of 1967 – 1974.

According to critics, the film broke new grounds by showing Indian urban youth as they really are today.

According to Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic: " was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century-beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers ; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste.

According to the July 14, 1967 Time magazine article, after " Don't Make Me Over " hit in 1962, she answered the call of her manager (" C ' mon, baby, you gotta go "), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her " Paris ' Black Pearl ," having been introduced on stage at Paris Olympia that year by Marlene Dietrich.

According to China's critics, China has offered Sudan support threatening to use its veto on the U. N. Security Council to protect Khartoum from sanctions and has been able to water down every resolution on Darfur in order to protect its interests in Sudan.

According to many critics and enthusiasts, Suchet's characterisation is considered to be the most accurate interpretation of all the actors who have played Poirot, and the closest to the character in the books.

According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with " Tiger ", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story.