According to relatively late ( 19th century ) documents preserved within the Yang and Wu family's archives, the name of Zhang Sanfeng's master was Xu Xuanping ( 許宣平 ), said to be a Tang dynasty hermit poet and Taoist Tao Yin expert.

According to the most prevalent version of the " Four Beauties " legend, the quartet's members are Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan or Diaochan, and Yang Guifei.

According to the Youth Daily, the decision had been made in advance of his spaceflight, but Yang was not made aware of it.

According to analysts, Hu wanted to transfer his ally Wang Yang out of Chongqing before these problems intensified.

According to protocol, all Menteris Besar and Chief Ministers are styled Yang Amat Berhormat ( abbreviated Y. A. B.

According to Evan Osnos, " Li Yang ’ s cosmology ties the ability to speak English to personal strength, and personal strength to national power ".

According to Mencius, “ Yang ’ s principle is, ‘ Each for himself ’ — which does not acknowledge the claims of the sovereign.

According to the Book of Sui, the Yamato king in 607 sent a hand-written epistle to Emperor Yang of Sui in which he called himself the " Son of Heaven in the Land of the Rising Sun " (), showing that the Japanese notion of their independent tianxia had continued to that time.

According to the proposal outlined by CPC General secretary and President Jiang Zemin in 1995, Taiwan would lose sovereignty and the right to self-determination, but would be permitted to keep its armed forces and to send a representative to be the " number two leader " in the PRC central government.

According to Jiang, Fan had published satirical essays portraying Mao as a megalomaniac, and Jiang herself as a " semi-prostitute ", but Fan's real crime was her marriage.

According to Du Xiuxian, her photographer, Jiang Qing remarked that she knew people within the Central Committee were plotting against her.

According to Zhang Yaoci, who carried out the arrest, Jiang Qing did not say much when she was arrested.

According to some China analysts, Li upset Jiang by disagreeing with the then-President's decision to suppress the Falun Gong movement.

According to the official Party verdict, Lin and Jiang were singled out for blame because they led intra-Party cliques which took advantage of Mao's " mistakes " to advance their own political goals, engaging in " criminal activity " for their own self-benefit.

According to the Song dynasty history book Lushi ( 路史 ), Chi You's surname was Jiang ( 姜 ), and he was a descendant of Yandi.

According to Yuejueshu, he forged five treasured swords for Gan Jiang and King Zhao of Chu, named, respectively, Zhanlu ( 湛卢 ), Juque ( 巨阙 ), Shengxie ( 胜邪 ), Yuchang ( 鱼肠 ) and Chunjun ( 纯钧 ).

According to the historical text Wuyue Chunqiu, King Helü of Wu ordered Gan Jiang and Mo Ye to forge a pair of swords for him.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

According to Reinhardt, a successful brass embouchure depends on a motion wherein the performer moves both the mouthpiece and lips as a single unit along the teeth in an upward and downward direction.

According to Eutropius and Aurelius Victor, he was particularly energetic and successful in keeping off the Germanic invaders from the German provinces and Gaul, after the weakness caused by Valerian's march on Italy against Aemilianus in 253.

According to Daum, after this first successful delivery, " Kennedy, who fiddles a bit with his suit jacket, is grinning like a boy who has just pulled off a coup.

According to Prof. Thomas Ambrosio, " Armenia's successful irredentist project in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan " and " From 1992 to the cease-fire in 1994, Armenia encountered a highly permissive or tolerant international environment that allowed its annexation of some 15 percent of Azerbaijani territory ".

According to his son ( Johnny Jr ), Johnny ( senior ) was named Peter by his parents ; but, once he began to be successful as a swimmer, he formally used his brother's name, Johnny, because his brother John was, by birth, an American citizen ( and had official records that verified this fact ), and Peter was not ( this was done so that non-citizen Peter could represent USA in the Olympics ).

According to the introduction of The Book of Five Rings, Musashi states that his first successful duel was at the age of thirteen, against a samurai named Arima Kihei who fought using the Kashima Shintō-ryū style, founded by Tsukahara Bokuden ( b. 1489, d. 1571 ).

According to the Sophists, such as Gorgias, a successful rhetorician could speak convincingly on any topic, regardless of his experience in that field.

According to military doctrine, to be successful an attacker generally requires a 3: 1 ratio of numerical superiority over the defender for foot soldiers ; in mountain warfare this ratio should be considerably higher as the terrain favours defence.

According to an article on The New York Times, the way in which the present mayor of Thessaloniki is treating the city's debt and oversized administration problems could be used as a paradigm by Greece's central government for a successful strategy in dealing with these problems.

According to the rules each manuscript bears a motto, and the corresponding envelope containing the name of the successful author is opened.

According to the Good Schools Guide the school is " Highly successful, producing excellent results.

According to Professor Lynda Walsh of the University of Nevada, Reno, some hoaxes — such as the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814, labeled as a hoax by contemporary commentators — are financial in nature, and successful hoaxers — such as P. T. Barnum, whose Fiji mermaid contributed to his wealth — often acquire monetary gain or fame through their fabrications, so the distinction between hoax and fraud is not necessarily clear.

By rapping in their native language, Islamic Force connected directly with Turkey as a country as well as their cultural background while simultaneously merging a global genre ( hip hop ) with a local culture ( Turkish traditions ) According to Diessel, “ The synthesis of Turkish musical idioms and language with hip hop was successful in appealing to a young audience.

ABC also had some moderately successful comedies including The Drew Carey Show, Spin City, Dharma & Greg, According to Jim, My Wife and Kids, 8 Simple Rules and George Lopez.

According to Wanger's memos at the time, the previews were successful.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the first successful monoplane flight was on 18 March 1906, covering just 12 m ( 40 feet ) at Montesson, France in a craft fashioned by Traian Vuia, a Romanian inventor.

According to Professor Henry Jenkins, four steps should be followed to achieve successful campaigns based on that concept:

According to Plutarch's Life of Romulus, the keeper of the Temple of Hercules challenged the hero to a game of dice with Hercules to receive a night with a beautiful woman and a fine spread and the god to provide the temple keeper with a valuable gift if the keeper was successful.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Max's Muller's efforts were most successful in the case of the Semites, whose affinities are easy to demonstrate, and probably least successful in the case of the Turanian peoples, whose early origins are hypothetical.

According to its supporters, this " legitimacy-rich " approach to national citizen lawmaking has been very successful.

According to the Committee, successful candidates must be U. S. citizens or permanent residents who are applying for U. S. citizenship, who have done work of significantly outstanding merit or that has had a major impact on scientific thought in their field.

According to his radio station coworkers, he received $ 50 for each successful jump and had once been paid $ 500 ( half before and half if he survived ) for a hazardous test.

According to foreign members of the Famine Relief Commission, the collective efforts of all involved were successful in preventing what otherwise would have been an " appalling calamity ", and by 1923 conditions in Shanxi returned to normal.