According to Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman " the State Department worked hard to dissuade the Soviets from invading.

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 the Hipparcos satellite, Arcturus is 36. 7 light years ( 11. 3 parsecs ) from Earth, relatively close in astronomical terms.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to the Rettig commission and the Valech Report, close to 3, 200 were executed or " disappeared ", and at least 29, 000 imprisoned and tortured.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

According to Tacitus, Mucianus was not keen on this prospect but since he considered Domitian a liability in any capacity that was entrusted to him, he preferred to keep him close at hand rather than in Rome.

According to a March 2004 BBC profile, politics within the country are dominated by tensions between Obiang's son, Teodorin, and other close relatives with powerful positions in the security forces.

According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to Stones ' confidant and close friend of Parsons, Phil Kaufman, the twosome would sit around for hours, playing obscure country records and trading off on various songs with their guitars.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

According to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who was a close friend of Hitler throughout the later 1920s and early 1930s, Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on but was turned down by him.

According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:

According to his own account, Agnagna claimed to have seen a Mokèlé-mbèmbé at close distance for about 20 minutes.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo de Manseriche in the little steamer " Napo ," in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 600 m ( 2000 ft ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 30 m ( 100 ft ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo in the little steamer Napo, in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 2000 ft ( 600 m ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 100 ft ( 30 m ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio — engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers — production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a " polished, professional sound ... finally allow ( ing ) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein ".

According to Kapila, " The government has a close knowledge of what's going on-and can influence the Arab militia.

According to a study by Menna Jones, " gene flow appears extensive up to ", meaning a high assignment rate to source or close neighbour populations " in agreement with movement data.

According to the Virgin Islands ' Department of Labor, close to 50, 000 people make the local workforce and are associated with various small and large businesses.

According to Procopius, they maintained close links with their kinsmen in Thule ( Scandinavia ).

According to ATRAC engineers, ATRAC algorithms were developed in close cooperation with LSI development engineers within Sony in order to deliver on a tangible product that could encode at high speeds and with minimal power consumption.

According to these early recorded stories, gods and kings, like the 7th century BC scholar-king Assurbanipal, paid close attention to dreams.

According to Zhou's own account, he was very close to his adoptive mother and acquired his lasting interest in Chinese literature and opera from her.

According to the Star Trek: New Frontier book series ( which, like all novels, are not considered canon ), the Great Awakening caused many wars and conflicts to occur amongst various Vulcan tribes ; those who supported Surak's cause would become separated from friends and even close family members who did not.

According to the Kremlin's aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky, " when they were told that the withdrawal of troops was unrealistic within the short period, that it was a very long process, the terrorists put forward the demand to withdraw Russian troops from anywhere in the Republic of Chechnya without specifying which area it was ".

According to George Stephanopoulos, a former close aide to President Bill Clinton, Warner was among top choices to replace Les Aspin as the Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration.

According to an aide to Muluzi, Humphrey Mvula, the police said that they wanted to remove guns from the home, but Mvula said that these guns had been issued by the police themselves for Muluzi's protection.

According to a Washington Post article, the President is always accompanied by a military aide carrying a " football " with launch codes for nuclear weapons.

According to NNDB. com, " In 1984, as a press aide to Jesse Helms, Allen told the Greensboro News and Record: ' We could expound on and undertake a campaign against Jim Hunt's connections with the homosexuals, the labor union connection, the radical feminist connection, the socialist connection.

According to an anonymous letter allegedly from an airport employee, Guergis arrived with an aide very late for her flight to Montreal, and publicly berated airport staff and security.

According to them, he was an aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and was also known as the emir of Anbar.

According to Marshall Gardner both the Eskimo and Mongolian peoples had come from the interior of the earth from an entrance located at the North pole.

According to the president of Nauru, the Marshall Islands are the nation ranked as the most endangered due to flooding from climate change.

According to Peter Marshall ( Florence Henderson Show, 2008 ) and Kaye Ballard ( E True Hollywood Story, 2000 ) the comedic actor would sometimes verbally ridicule his friends when inebriated.

According to author David W. Marshall, extreme and obsessive loathing of Christianity had long been the norm of black and death metal bands, but in the 1990s Bathory and many other bands began turning away from Satan as the primary opposition to Christianity, instead placing their faith in Vikings and Odin.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Marshall County were English 68. 2 %, Scots-Irish 12. 31 %, Scottish 5. 1 %, Irish 4. 22 %, Welsh 2. 3 % and African 1. 47 %

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Marshall County were African 50. 36 %, English 31. 87 %, Scottish 7. 1 %, Scots-Irish 3. 13 %, Irish 1. 2 % and Welsh 1. 1 %

According to the 2000 Census statistics, there was a significant community of about 4, 000 Marshall Islanders.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Marshall has a total area of, entirely on land.

According to the St. Johnsbury Caledonian of May 22, 1896, " The little town of Wheelock was thrown into a state of wild excitement last Wednesday evening when the cry went around that Marshall Way had killed his wife.

According to a note written by Marshall, Mary Steenburgen was the first choice to play Vivian Ward.

According to Douglas Adams, " Marvin came from Andrew Marshall.

According to one of Marshall Berman's books ( Berman 1982, 16 – 17 ), modernity is periodized into three conventional phases ( dubbed " Early ," " Classical ," and " Late ," respectively, by Peter Osborne ( 1992, 25 ):

However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated " to provide support for the men and women of the armed forces with help of the American people " According to war historian Paul Edwards, Between 1952 and 1953, not a day went by without the USO providing services somewhere in Korea.

According to the book, Roadside History of Arizona, by Marshall Trimble, " Mingus Mountain was named for Joseph and Jacob Mingus, two brothers who settled in the area in the 1880s and later operated a sawmill near the base of the mountain ".

According to the Centennial Conference's web site: " On June 4, 1981, Keith Spalding, then-president of Franklin & Marshall College, made the announcement that " eight private colleges found it timely and appropriate to form a round-robin football schedule among institutions with similar attitudes and practices in intercollegiate football competition.

According to some scholars, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.

According to them, the amount of monetary aid ( which was in the form of loans ) received by Germany through the Marshall Plan ( about $ 1. 4 billion in total ) was far overshadowed by the amount the Germans had to pay back as war reparations and by the charges the Allies made on the Germans for the ongoing cost of occupation ( about $ 2. 4 billion per year ).

According to Daniel Richman, former clerk for Thurgood Marshall, Marshall's friendship with Bayard Rustin and Rustin's openness about his homosexuality played a significant role in Marshall's dissent.

According to Marshall and Jean Stearns in Jazz Dance, a pelvic dance motion called the twist came to America from the Congo during slavery.

According to professor Charles Ross, " For 24 years Marshall was identified as the leading racist in the NFL ".

According to Marshall, it was Edgar's idea to leave New Jersey, and move to Eerie.

According to Marshall T. Newman in a 1953 article for the Journal of the American Anthropologist, Native American populations are generally consistent with Bergmann's rule although the cold climate and small body size combination of the Eastern Eskimo, Canoe Indians, Yuki, Andes natives and Harrison Lake Lillouet runs contrary to the expectations of Bergmann's rule.

According to Herbert Marshall Lloyd, an attorney and editor of Morgan's works, Lewis was descended from James Morgan, brother of Miles, who were Welsh pioneers of Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts, respectively.