According to The Grocer magazine, Unilever reported that during this " Gromit " mug promotion, PG Tips sales increased 600 percent.

According to his firm ’ s website, Smith has litigated matters involving major international companies such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Deloitte & Touche, Wachovia, A. I. G., Adelphia Communications Corp, Talk Miramax, FoxMeyer Drug Company, Adelphia founder John Rigas, Continental Grain Company, Unilever, Salomon Smith Barney, and the U. S. Trust Company.

According to Unilever, it was first shipped to the UK by accident in a container which was supposed to be carrying pâté.

According to Jancis Robinson, a sense of " smokiness " is one clue that could be picked up in a blind tasting of Chardonnay but there are many styles that do not have any " smokey " notes.

According to his chaplain and biographer, Nicholas Bernard, the elder brother was taught to read by two blind, spinster aunts.

According to William of Malmesbury, a certain Alfred plotted to blind Æthelstan on account of his supposed illegitimacy, and Ælfweard's full brother Edwin was allegedly involved in the plot.

According to Quaw, the townsite was a blind railroad siding nine and seven tenths miles west of Bozeman, and was named Belgrade after the capital of Serbia as an expression of appreciation to Serbian investors who helped finance a portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

According to their account two children were left behind as one was blind and the other lame, so neither could follow the others.

According to Thomas, " the Court is willfully blind to the very real experience in California and elsewhere, which raises the inference that institutions with ' reputations for excellence '... rivaling Law's have satisfied their sense of mission without resorting to prohibited racial discrimination.

According to Suetonius, Macro gained further favor by turning a blind eye to his wife Eunia's affair with Caligula around the year 34 AD.

According to one legend, he was struck blind by the gods during his censorship, after inducing the ancient family of the Potitii to teach the sacred rites of Hercules to the public slaves.

According to the Books of Samuel, the Jebusites still had control of Jerusalem at the time of King David, but David wished to take control of the city ; understandably the Jebusites contested his attempt to do this, and since Jebus was the strongest fortress in Canaan they gloated that even the blind and lame could defeat David's army ; an alternative, equally valid, translation of the Jebusite's statement is that they said David would have to defeat the blind and lame before anyone else.

According to the Books of Samuel, the Jebusites managed to resist attempts by the Israelites to capture the city, and by the time of King David were mocking such attempts, claiming that even the blind and lame could defeat the Israelite army.

According to the legend related in the poem, a blind beggar living in Bethnal Green was in fact Henry de Montfort, eldest son of Simon de Montfort, having escaped from the field of the Battle of Evesham in 1265.

According to the editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, the prevailing notion in ancient middle eastern cultures was that bodily ailments and defects, such as blindness and loss of hearing, as well as circumstantial ailments, such as poverty, were punishments for sin ; the blind, together with cripples and lepers, were outcast by society and were prevented from entering towns, becoming paupers as a result.

According to Dreamtime legend there was a huge blind water snake living in the landlocked area of water known as Jalkawarrinya.

According to Helen Keller, this caused literacy problems among blind children, and was one of the chief arguments against New York Point and in favor of one of the braille alphabets.

According to Kenkō, " The former governor of Shinano, Yukinaga, wrote Heike monogatari and showed it to a blind man called Shōbutsu to chant it ".

According to the temple legend there were three brothers, each with a handicap: one was mute, one was deaf and one was blind.

According to De Ferranti, the act of playing lutes for alms by blind musicians finds its roots in Indian Buddhist culture during the first millennium AD.

According to the legend a blind man regained his eyesight after praying before the statue.

According to legend, though not substantiated by any extant documentation, in 1524, while traveling to the Holy Land, St Angela Merici became suddenly blind when she was on the island of Crete.

* According to the song " In the Year 2525 " by Zager and Evans, by this time in human history, man will be blind and fed through tubes.

According to his great grandson, all of the proceeds that Wassell received from the movie were donated to a hospital for the deaf and blind in Little Rock, Arkansas.

According to a legend, a blind and crippled old man named Tekir and his old donkey reached the shore of the lake by mistake.

According to a longstanding but now discredited legend, the Black Prince obtained the badge from the blind John I of Bohemia, against whom he fought at the Battle of Crécy in 1346.

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 Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Schapiro, " the Anglo-Saxon taste for the Hell Mouth was perhaps influenced by the northern pagan myth of the Crack of Doom and the battle with the wolf, who devoured Odin.

According to some scholars these five elements or pancha mahabhutas were identified with the various human senses of perception ; earth with smell, air with feeling, fire with vision, water with taste and ether with sound.

According to the skill and taste of the player, the melody, harmony or both may be an improvisation on the song.

Some, including Sheldon Glashow, speculate that Witten chose the letter because it resembles an inverted W. According to Witten, " M can stand variously for ' magic ', ' mystery ', or ' matrix ', according to one's taste.

According to Simon Frith pop music is produced " as a matter of enterprise not art ", is " designed to appeal to everyone " and " doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste ".

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to him, " The ' remedy which loosens the tongue ' has no taste, no smell, no colour, and no immediate side effects.

According to general semantics, language, natural or otherwise ( including the language called ' mathematics ') can be used to describe the taste of an orange, but one cannot give the taste of the orange using language alone.

According to Brooks, after the film was completed, Embassy executives refused to release it as being in " bad taste "; however, Peter Sellers saw the film privately and placed an advertisement in Variety in support of the film's wider release.

According to critic Otto Penzler, " As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled.

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 ancient Greek gastronomer Athenaeus of Naukratis, the leaves of the species can be peeled and eaten raw, but because of their bitter taste, they are better kept in brine.

According to a tradition originating with anti-Stuart historians of the mid-seventeenth-century, James's taste for political absolutism, his financial irresponsibility, and his cultivation of unpopular favourites established the foundations of the English Civil War.

According to the liner notes on the soundtrack album, Williams ' " sense of the dramatic, coupled with his exquisite musical taste and knowledge of the orchestra definitely stamp this score as truly one of his best.

According to Bede's explanation, this happened because Mellitus refused the brothers ' request for a taste of the sacramental bread.

According to Christopher Witcombe, " the ironic identification of these figurines as ' Venus ' pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women, and about taste ".

According to Sarah J. Gim of The Huffington Post, " many people assume that " the " Special sauce " used on a McDonald's Big Mac " is just Thousand Island dressing " but it is thicker, sweeter, and has a slightly different taste.

According to proponents of the hypothesis, repressed memories may sometimes be recovered years or decades after the event, most often spontaneously, triggered by a particular smell, taste, or other identifier related to the lost memory, or via suggestion during psychotherapy.

According to Lindemann, both salt and sour taste mechanisms detect, in different ways, the presence of sodium chloride in the mouth.

According to the taste and purse of the owner, chop shops would build high handle bars, or later Ed Roth's Wild Child designed stretched, narrowed, and raked front forks.