According to the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy :" The notion that Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality was essentially a glorification of the State of Nature, and that its influence tended to wholly or chiefly to promote " Primitivism " is one of the most persistent historical errors.

According to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 9 of the 12 most dangerous and persistent organic chemicals are pesticides.

According to a persistent legend, the name " Bozrah " was derived from another Biblical text, which came to someone's mind under the particular circumstances surrounding the community's petition to the Connecticut General Assembly for township status.

According to most accounts, the popularity of Powell's perspective on race may have played a decisive contributory factor in the Conservatives ' surprise victory in the 1970 general election, and he became one of the most persistent rebels opposing the subsequent Heath government.

According to Phil Zuckerman, " low response rates ", " non-random samples ", and " adverse political / cultural climates " are all persistent problems in establishing accurate numbers of religious believers in a given locality.

According to this restriction, variables are used in a mathematical sense, with identifiers referring to immutable, persistent values.

According to a persistent legend, Harris adopted a 17-year-old geisha named Okichi (), who was heavily pressured into the relationship by Japanese authorities and then ostracized after Harris ' departure, eventually committing suicide in 1892.

According to the U. S. National Park Service, problems associated with visitor use have been persistent for decades.

According to historian Arch Getty, Nicolaevsky's story is a " persistent myth.

According to the Gospel of Luke, a judge who is both irreligious and lacking compassion eventually agrees to do justice to a poor widow because she is so persistent in her demands.

According to the journal, Social Compass, " Viewed globally, this persecution has been so persistent and of such an intensity that it would not be inaccurate to regard Jehovah's witnesses as the most persecuted religion of the twentieth century ".

According to McCullin, there was nothing idyllic about the desert island: " It was inhabited by snakes, scorpions and tarantulas (…) The mosquitos and other insects were more venomous and persistent than any I had encountered in Vietnam or the Congo.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

According to the myth, when Helios ' son Phaëton was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, and their tears became the origin of elektron, amber.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to myth, the Comoros islands were first visited by Phoenician sailors.

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 Howard Schwartz, " the myth of the fall of Lucifer " existed in fragmentary form in Isaiah 14: 12 and other ancient Jewish literature ; Schwartz claims that the myth originated from " the ancient Canaanite myth of Athtar, who attempted to rule the throne of Ba ' al, but was forced to descend and rule the underworld instead ".

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Bruce Lincoln, the philosophes " made irrationality the hallmark of myth and constituted philosophy — rather than the Christian kerygma — as the antidote for mythic discourse.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, many myths feature sacred mountains as " the sites of revelations ": " In myth, the ascent of the holy mountain is a spiritual journey, promising purification, insight, wisdom, or knowledge of the sacred ".

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to myth, taiko was started by Ame no Uzume, a shaman-like female deity.

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

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 the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs by leading her away and flattering her.

According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.

According to myth, Imhotep's mother was a mortal named Kheredu-ankh, elevated later to semi-divine status by claims that she was the daughter of Banebdjedet.

According to the myth-ritual theory, the existence of myth is tied to ritual.

According to Smith, people begin performing rituals for some reason that is not related to myth ; later, after they have forgotten the original reason for a ritual, they try to account for the ritual by inventing a myth and claiming that the ritual commemorates the events described in that myth.

According to Reed there were a variety of these treatments.

According to sociologist Burton Clark, Reed is one of the most unusual institutions of higher learning in the United States, featuring a traditional liberal arts and natural sciences curriculum.

According to Akhil Reed Amar, the framers and early supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it would ensure that the states would be required to recognize the individual rights the federal government was already required to respect in the Bill of Rights and in other constitutional provisions ; all of these rights were likely understood as falling within the " privileges or immunities " safeguarded by the amendment.

According to Reed ( despite the original liner notes ), the album entirely consists of guitar feedback played at different speeds.

" According to Burke, his mother introduced him to Jimmy Reed and Ray Charles as well as that era's king of smooth, Billy Eckstein.

According to TheyWorkForYou, in his last year in Parliament Reed had spoken in an " above average " number of debates, voted an " above average " number of times in the 2005-2010 parliament and replied " within 2 or 3 weeks to a " high number of messages " during 2008.

According to Reed, the eclectic design was inspired by many sources.

According to Clark, the opinions of recognized polygraph experts were divided about the propriety of McCarthy's exam: Harry Reed supported the validity of McCarthy's exam, while psychologist David Raskin of the University of Utah asserted that McCarthy's method was " more than 30 years out of date.

According to the children, Reed Richards had been acting very strange the last couple of days.

According to Reed, Warhol told Reed he should write a song about someone vicious.

According to University of Pennsylvania Law School Professors David Shakow and Reed Shuldiner, “ A wealth tax also taxes capital that is not productively employed.

Reed and Kellogg were preceded by, and their work probably informed by, W. S. Clark, who published his " balloon " method of depicting grammar in his 1847 book A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases & Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices and Their Various Relationships to Each Another.

According to Reed, he resigned his job in protest against the appeasement of Hitler after the Munich Agreement of 1938.

According to the legend, test audiences reacted poorly, finding Gleason's two roles confusing, and so the Bandit scenes were re-shot with Jerry Reed playing the role.

According to Reed's book Active Faith, Reed also introduced Abramoff to his future wife, Pam Alexander.

According to Easton's Gang of Five, Reed was the " hatchet man " and " carried out Abramoff-Norquist orders with ruthless efficiency, not bothering to hide his fingerprints ".

According to Reed, " Someone once had the temerity to ask Elgar which version, the allegro or the adagio, was written first ; but the question was not very well received and the subject was not pursued.

According to the book Monday Night Mayhem ( Reed Business Information, 1988 ), the National Football League received a bid from HTN for broadcast rights to Monday Night Football ; this, while negotiations with ABC were nearing a standoff.

" According to Reed University Professor of Music David Schiff, " With the appearance of black musicals like Shuffle Along and the emergence of black stars such as Paul Robeson and Ethel Waters, the minstrel convention of blackface, which survived in the vastly popular performances of Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, had become an embarrassment-at least to some critics.

According to Reed, several days after the arrest Peggy Lee sent him her entire catalog of CDs, because " she was so thrilled I wanted one of her CDs enough to put myself through so much hell.