According to historian Linda Wilcox, Heavenly Mother " is a shadowy and elusive belief floating around the edges of Mormon consciousness ".

According to Buffy scholar Rhonda Wilcox, the themes of maturation and facing adult responsibilities begin with the departure of Buffy's boyfriend Riley Finn six episodes before, and crystallize in the preceding episode in which Buffy realizes she does not need a boyfriend to be fulfilled.

According to Wilcox and Robinson, " The Christian Right is an attempt to restore Judeo-Christian values to a country that is in deep moral decline.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

According to Whedon, Buffy " had been brewing in for many years " before finally appearing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film played by Kristy Swanson.

According to Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the introduction of Dawn in Season Five was partly so protagonist Buffy Summers could experience a " really important, intense emotional relationship " with someone other than a boyfriend.

According to Buffy studies scholar Gregory Stevenson, the Master has such confidence in the prophecy that the Slayer will die that he is unable to comprehend her resurrection by Xander.

According to Buffy scholars, the Master is a classic villain.

According to Jana Riess, author of What Would Buffy Do ?, " Kobol " is an anagram of " Kolob ", only one of many plot points Larson has borrowed from Mormonism.

According to Buffy scholar Roz Kaveney, episodes in the third season address various forms of betrayal.

According to Buffy essayist Patrick Shade, Tara's and Olivia's fear " heighten ( s ) our sense of vulnerability and so make these scenes more frightening ".

According to two Buffy essayists, part of the horror stemming from the arrival of The Gentlemen is the silence that makes the people of Sunnydale helpless, easy victims.

According to author Kevin Durand ( 2009 ), " While Buffy confronts various forms of evil during each episode, each season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had its own ' big bad ' villain who dominates throughout the season.

According to author Jan Jagodzinski, the battle between Buffy and the evil Master is " the central issue of season one "; The Master, like all the " big bads ", is a " symptom of postmodernity ".

* According to Joss Whedon, Jenny Calendar's death serves notice to fans, first, that no one is safe, death is scary and real, and second, that Angelus is not " just a little evil ," he's not " grouchy ," he's truly evil and Buffy needs to address the situation.

" According to Richardson and Rabb, " Faith is finally seeing herself as Buffy sees her and is even harder on herself than Buffy has ever been.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

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 Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

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 Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to the special theory of relativity, the aberration looks as a transform of the celestial sphere due to different frames of reference and is virtually a special case of velocity addition, namely one of the light beam and frames ' relative velocity v. The formula from relativistic aberration can be simplified to

According to the Wise Man, the only way Ash can return to his time is to retrieve the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.

According to the WWF, the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina can be subdivided into three ecoregions: the Pannonian mixed forests, Dinaric Mountains mixed forests and Illyrian deciduous forests.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

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 this understanding, the self can not be reduced to a bundle because there is nothing that answers to the concept of a self.

According to the Kun-bzang bla-ma ' i zhal-lung, a bodhisattva can choose any of three paths to help sentient beings in the process of achieving buddhahood.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

According to the objectivist view, the rules of Bayesian statistics can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency and interpreted as an extension of logic.

According to the DSM-IV, the " With catatonic features " specifier can be applied if the clinical picture is dominated by at least two of the following:

According to the INBio, about 4. 5 % of the world's biodiversity can be found in Costa Rica.

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 this research, genetic markers commonly found in modern humans worldwide suggest that today many people carry a gene that evolved as protection against the brain diseases that can be spread by consuming human brain tissue.

According to the myth, cattle are slow-moving, slow-witted and weak-legged, and can easily be pushed over without much force, both because they have a high center of gravity, and because they sleep standing.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

The introduction of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to Pietrusza, " much of the nation could hardly believe a federal judge had finally cracked down on a trust — and cracked down hard ".

According to different research, however, Mises believed that the Ordoliberals were hardly better than socialists.

According to friends, he could hardly believe how far he had come from his humble beginnings.

According to William Sewell, Sieyès ' pamphlet set “ the tone and direction of The French Revolution … but its author could hardly control the Revolution ’ s course over the long run ”.

According to the official version, which was long believed to be the true one, the paper had arrived by the usual means, through Madame Bastian ; but the appearance of the document, which was hardly torn, makes this story unlikely.

According to many historians Bahadur Shah was the last major Mughal emperor as the rulers who succeeded him were either proxies or puppets of some influential regional chieftains and their influence was hardly felt outside the imperial capital city of Delhi. Bahadur Shah hardly shared Aurangzeb's orthodox views.

According to Robert L. Hutchings, " One can hardly doubt that if there had been a slower buildup of industry, the attack would have been successful and world history would have evolved quite differently.

According to the terms of the Council of Constance calling for periodic ecumenical councils to discuss church policies, Pope Martin V convened a council at Pavia, which was hardly inaugurated on April 23, 1423, when plague broke out at Pavia and the council was hastily adjourned to Siena.

According to some scholars ( mainly left wing thinkers ), the ' underground ' scene was by far richer in creativity, though lacking technical skills, some others think the " commercial " scene was more worthwhile, since the underground scene hardly reached more than a few hundred supporters per concert and mainly in the capital city of Lima, being virtually unknown for the rest of the country.

According to the essay, at the time of this cataclysm a group of primitive humans were at a technological level hardly above the Neanderthal.

According to Douglas Jardine's biographer, Christopher Douglas, " He hardly put a foot wrong during the tour and, even though he gave Australia their biggest hiding to date, he was and probably remains ... one of the most popular English captains to tour Australia.

According to Campbell, " It is hardly too much to say that no satisfactory text of MacDonald's poems has yet been produced.

According to a recent observer, " His light hardly seems to be plein air light at all.

According to writer Emily Dubberley, the rule hampered the 1990s trend toward feminist pornography ; since " you couldn't show a man in a state of arousal ", the allowed depiction was " hardly a turn-on ", and she criticized it as a double standard that was permitted due to the perception that women did not respond to visual erotic stimuli.

According to Livy, he carried on the operations with such vigor that Hannibal's absence was hardly felt.

According to Dio, Antony's story to the proposed marriages is hardly credible and may have been invented by him to offset his own alliance with Cleopatra.