According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

According to a controversial theory, the Parthians may have had knowledge of electroplating, based on the 1936 discovery of the Baghdad Battery, which resembles a galvanic cell, though it is uncertain whether the artifact was electrical in nature.

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 Ibn Ishaq's controversial account of the Satanic Verses ( q. v.

According to the author Garry Boulard in his book Abraham Lincoln Ascendent, it was Sherman's 1859 endorsement of the controversial anti-slavery book, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton Helper, that doomed Sherman's chances of becoming Speaker.

According to some sources, his role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial.

According to Shri Sankara Menon, Rukmini Devi raised Bharatanatyam to a puritan art form, divorced from its recently controversial past by " removing objectionable elements " ( mostly, the Sringara, certain emotional elements evocative of the erotic, such as hip, neck, lip and chest movements ) from the Pandanallur style, which was publicly criticized by Balasaraswati and other representatives of the traditional devadasi culture.

A similar interpretation is given in José Saramago's controversial The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, but there attributed to Joseph, Jesus ' father, rather than to Jesus himself.

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Rusk was not Kennedy's first choice, but rather the " lowest common denominator ", as Kennedy's first choice, J. William Fulbright, proved too controversial.

According to biographer Kelley, the 1964 Time appearance came because " Barry Farrell, who wrote the cover story, wanted to write about a jazz musician and almost by default Monk was chosen, because they thought Ray Charles and Miles Davis were too controversial.

According to contemporary narrative sources, this was a controversial decision.

According to a story, Solomonia Saburova also bore a son in the convent where she had been confined, just several months after the controversial divorce.

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 Shri Sankara Menon ( 1907 – 2007 ), who was her associate from Kalakshetra ’ s beginnings, Rukmini Devi raised Bharatanatyam to a puritan art form, divorced from its recently controversial past by " removing objectionable elements " ( mostly, the Sringara, certain emotional elements evocative of the erotic, such as hip, neck, lip and chest movements ) from the Pandanallur style, which was publicly criticized by Balasaraswati and other representatives of the traditional devadasi culture.

According to Rusty Schweickart, the gravitational tractor method is also controversial because during the process of changing an asteroid's trajectory the point on Earth where it could most likely hit would be slowly shifted across different countries.

According to Mark J. Gasiorowski, " There were separate polling stations for yes and no votes, producing sharp criticism of Mosaddeq " and that the " controversial referendum ... gave the CIA's precoup propaganda campaign an easy target ".

According to Samantha Power in her book Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the World, Vieira de Mello had charmed Bush at a meeting in March 2003, at which the two men discussed the human rights situation in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a controversial issue for the United States.

According to the ICA, " The Corcoran's decision sparked a controversial national debate: Should tax dollars support the arts?

According to historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Fulbright was Kennedy's first choice as Secretary of State, but it was felt he was too controversial.

According to a 2011 paper, " The pathogenesis of the ganglion cysts is controversial.

" According to Paul, " She received huge applause when she asked how former United States President Jimmy Carter could omit the years 1939-1947 from a chronology in his book "; referring to his recently-published and controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, she said: " When a former president of the United States writes a book on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis and writes a chronology at the beginning of the book in order to help them understand the emergence of the situation and in that chronology lists nothing of importance between 1939 and 1947, that is soft-core denial.

According to the controversial Korean history book Hwandan Gogi, complied by Uncho Gye Yeon-su in 1911, and later published in 1979, Chi You was also an ancestor of the Koreans.

According to the developers, " controversial decisions are often made differently from OpenBSD ; for instance, there won't be any support for SMP in MirOS ".

According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to tradition, Paul ordained Titus bishop of Gortyn in Crete.

According to the Jain tradition either lacto vegetarianism or veganism is mandatory.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to early tradition, this book was composed near the end of Domitian's reign, around the year 95 AD.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to tradition, a Praetorian named Gratus found him hiding behind a curtain and suddenly declared him princeps.

According to one such tradition, she is the personification of the Earth itself ; according to another, its actual mother, being Prithvi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth.

According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to this tradition, when Christ is crucified, his blood falls on Adam's skull, buried at the foot of the cross, and redeems him.

According to Christian tradition, Christ descended to hell after his death, in order to free the souls there ; this event is known as the harrowing of hell.

According to tradition, bits of hay are spread beneath the tablecloth as a reminder that Christ was born in a manger.