According to 13th-century German poet Conrad of Würzburg, medieval Germans carved kobolds from boxwood and wax and put them " up in the room for fun ".

According to the 1880 census, Nobles County boasted 4435 residents, 636 of them living in Worthington.

According to Reserve Bank of India, the city in the 1930s boasted of head offices of 58 banks and was recognised by RBI as ' Banking Town '.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the daily circulation of the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda exceeded 21, 500, 000 in 1990, while the Soviet weekly Argumenty i Fakty boasted a circulation of 33, 500, 000 in 1991.

According to Eusebius ' Chronicon, Manetho had suggested that the great age of antiquity in which the later Egyptians boasted had actually preceded the flood, and that they were really descended from Mizraim, who settled there anew.

According to later accounts, Clémentine Delait visited a carnival, saw a bearded woman with some stubble and boasted that she could grow a better beard herself.

According to the book Magic and Mystery in Tibet by French explorer Alexandra David-Néel, Milarepa boasted of having “ crossed in a few days, a distance which, before his training in black magic, had taken him more than a month.

According to the television series Green Acres, Pixley comically boasted several things that no small farm town in America would have.

According to a number of affidavits which emerged following Bembenek's conviction, Horenberger boasted of killing Schultz to other inmates while he was in jail.

According to Ervand Abrahamian, Lajevardi " liked to be addressed as Hajj Aqa, and boasted he was so proud of Evin that he had brought his family to live there.

According to Ain-e-Akbari, the autobiography of Akbar, Chanderi had 14000 stone houses and boasted of 384 markets, 360 sapcious caravan sarais ( resting place ) and 12, 000 mosques.

According to Quintilian, Cicero afterwards boasted that he had pulled the wool over the judges ' eyes ( se tenebras offudisse iudicibus in causa Cluenti gloriatus est, Institutio Oratoria 2. 17. 21 ; the context is in discussion of orators who say false things not because they are themselves unaware of the truth, but to deceive other people ).

According to the Quran, Jews blasphemously claim that Ezra is the son of God, as Christians claim Jesus is, ( Surah 9: 30 ) and that God's hand is fettered ( Surah 5: 64 – i. e., that they can freely defy God ).

According to this doctrine, the gods of Olympus were not supernatural powers still actively intervening in the affairs of men, but great generals, statesmen and inventors of olden times commemorated after death in extraordinary ways.

According to surveys, some of the most common fears are of ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations and public speaking.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

According to contemporary research, males are dominant throughout Melanesia ( although some believe that female witches have special powers ).

According to the Gospel of Mary, they may refer to " the seven powers of wrath " spoken of in 8: 18-19:

According to two consecutive Bush Administration President's Task Force Reports, the latest of which was issued on December 21, 2007 Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the United States government.

According to the historian Pedro Barceló, it can be described as a private military-economic hegemony backed by the two independent powers, Carthage and Gades.

According to the Apogee website the original storyline was the following: After the fall of Hitler, the true powers behind him have drawn into seclusion, planning their next strategy for world domination.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

According to current Swazi law and custom, the monarch holds supreme executive, legislative, and judicial powers.

According to some versions, Styx had miraculous powers and could make someone invulnerable.

According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

According to the uncodified constitution of the United Kingdom, the monarch has the following powers:

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

According to Fromm, the awareness of a disunited human existence is a source of guilt and shame, and the solution to this existential dichotomy is found in the development of one's uniquely human powers of love and reason.

According to McGuckin, several mid-twentieth century accounts have tended to " romanticise " Nestorius ; in opposition to this view, he asserts that Nestorius was no less dogmatic, uncompromising than Cyril and that he was fully just as prepared to use his political and canonical powers as Cyril or any of the other hierarchs of the period.

According to the legislation of 1996, the council area was to have the name, Clackmannan, of the former district, but this was changed to Clackmannanshire, by the council using its own powers.

According to ancient sources, he obtained these powers when he was elected eponymous archon ( 594 / 3 BC ).

According to the Constitution, the powers of both houses are nearly equal, with the consent of both houses needed to pass legislation.

According to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, Belarus's constitution is " illegal and does not respect minimum democratic standards and thus violates the principles of separation of powers and the rule of law ".

According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the amulets appear in Viking Age graves, and were presumably placed there because " they were thought to have protective powers ".

According to Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe # 6 ( 1985 ), Destiny is " the one being who has been able to resist Zeus ' unlimited powers.

According to one Skidi band Pawnee man at the beginning of the twentieth century, “ The Skidi were organized by the stars ; these powers above made them into families and villages, and taught them how to live and how to perform their ceremonies.

According to Patrick J. Montana and Bruce H. Charnov, the ability to attain these unique powers is what enables leadership to influence subordinates and peers by controlling organizational resources.

According to the chronicle, the Byzantines attempted to poison Oleg, but the Rus ' leader demonstrated his oracular powers by refusing to drink the cup of poisoned wine.

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 World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.

According to some writers, he even raped Cassandra inside the temple.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

According to Davis, " It's great triumph was to prove that the sum of two even numbers is even ".

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ") was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, or the " Bodhisattva Vehicle.

According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively ( consistent with SI ), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte,

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to Ivinskaya, " He did not believe that we would ever publish the manuscript here and felt he had no right to withhold a masterpiece from the world -- this would be an even greater crime.

According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak continued to stick to his daily writing schedule even during the controversy over Doctor Zhivago.

According to some versions of functionalism, even non-human systems, such as other animal species, alien life forms, or advanced computers can, in principle, have mental states.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

" According to this definition, celibacy ( even short-term celibacy that is pursued for non-religious reasons ) is much more than not having sex.

According to Jacques Ellul, “ the aim is not to even modify people ’ s ideas on a given subject, rather, it is to achieve conformity in the way that people act.

According to Suetonius, he even wrote a book on the subject of hair care.

According to him, even his next-door neighbor do not know his profession.

According to dot-com theory, an Internet company's survival depended on expanding its customer base as rapidly as possible, even if it produced large annual losses.

According to Gettier, there are certain circumstances in which one does not have knowledge, even when all of the above conditions are met.

According to another opinion, he did not join the first party so as not to compete, even involuntarily, with Jeshua ben Jozadak for the office of chief priest.

According to Reinhold F. Glei, it is settled that the argument of theodicy is from an academic source which is not only not epicurean, but even anti-epicurean.

According to variant accounts, they emerged from an even more primordial level — from Nyx, " Night ".

According to Charles Holcombe, the early Tujue population was rather heterogeneous and many of the names of Göktürk rulers are not even Turkic.