According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

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 Revolutions de Paris, it became " the symbol of the liberation from all servitudes, the sign for unification of all the enemies of despotism.

According to the hadith, refusal to pay zakat is a sign of hypocrisy, and God won't accept the prayers of such people.

According to some accounts, it was discovered that Becket had worn a hairshirt under his archbishop's garments — a sign of penance.

According to the legend, he felt his defeat at Varna was a warning sign from God ( since he declared war on a false pretext, violating the truce with the Ottoman Turks ).

According to Roger of Wendover, William was present at Gisors in France in 1188 when Henry II of England and Philip II of France agreed to go on crusade: " Thereupon the king of the English first took the sign of the cross at the hands of the Archbishop of Rheims and William of Tyre, the latter of whom had been entrusted by our lord the pope with the office of legate in the affairs of the crusade in the western part of Europe.

According to Vodou believers, when this occurs, it is a sign that a possession is about to take place.

According to the life of Oswald, Edward's body was found to be incorrupt when it was disinterred ( which was taken as a miraculous sign ).

According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching ( Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome ), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words " Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα ", En toutō níka, usually translated into Latin as " in hoc signo vinces ," both phrases have the literal meaning " In this sign, shall conquer ;" a more free translation would be " Through this sign shall conquer ".

According to the Christian Bible, God first created the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a world-wide flood.

According to this theory, the same sign has a positive or negative meaning depending on the subject's overall character and personality as revealed by the form-niveau.

According to Plutarch, they interpreted it as a sign of their king's demise.

According to common legend, the name " Bear " originated from a tavern located along the roadway from Wilmington to Dover, Delaware ( at the intersection now formed by US 40 and State Route 7 ), whose sign was decorated with the image of a large bear.

According to a popular legend, the town received its name after a road sign with the word " Chatsworth " fell off a passing freight train nearby.

According to local lore, he erected a sign over the entrance of the tavern depicting the rays of the sun at dawn and the words " The Rising Sun ".

According to Joanne Manning, a sign that had previously commemorated Manning fell down, and no individuals replaced it.

According to that tale, in the days following the land run, some enterprising settlers decided to set up a chuckwagon and cook for their fellow pioneers, hanging a sign that read " DINE ".

According to a sign posted at the ferry dock, a ferry has operated here since 1825.

According to a large sign in the town center, it is the only town in the world so named.

According to a sign at the museum, there were originally two trains a day to Seattle, later only one.

According to a sign near the site, " The Lone Rock-At one time a massive piece of sandstone stood a short distance from the north bank of the Wisconsin River.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the Biblioteca, the " library " of mythology mis-attributed to Apollodorus, he fathered the Corybantes on the Muse Thalia.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

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 studies of James Curran, the system of shared values among editors in Britain has generated a pressure among authors to write to fit the editors ' expectations, removing the focus from the reader-audience and putting a strain on the relationship between authors and editors and on writing as a social act.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to archaeologists Patricia Crown and Steadman Upham, the appearance of the bright colors on Salada Polychromes in the 14th century may reflect religious or political alliances on a regional level.

According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

According to the ship's log, Selkirk died at 8 p. m. on 13 December 1721 while serving as a lieutenant on board the Royal ship Weymouth.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.