According to Aldo Musacchio, a professor at Harvard Business School, it is a system in which governments, whether democratic or autocratic, exercise a widespread influence on the economy, through either direct ownership or various subsidies.

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 Finkelstein, Deborah Lipstadt claims there is widespread Holocaust denial-yet in " Denying the Holocaust " her prime example is Arthur Butz, author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.

According to the recently most widespread presumption, Finno-Ugric ( or Uralic ) languages were first spoken in Finland and the adjacent areas during the ( typical ) Comb Ceramic period, around 4000 BCE at the latest.

According to this view, all kennings are formally compounds, notwithstanding widespread tmesis.

Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." According to Cornwell, a worrying impression of stereotypical anti-Semitic contempt is discernible in the ' catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness ' and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".

According to classical sources, widespread seventh-day Sabbath rest by Gentile Christians was also the prevailing mode in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

According to Eliz Sanasarian " Of all non-Muslim religious minorities the persecution of the Bahais has been the most widespread, systematic, and uninterrupted .… In contrast to other non-Muslim minorities, the Bahais have been spread throughout the country in villages, small towns, and various cities, fueling the paranoia of the prejudiced.

According to the Department of Transportation's Freight Management and Operations section's studies, railroad industry costs and prices were halved over a ten year period, the railroads reversed their historic loss of traffic ( as measured by ton-miles ) to the trucking industry, and railroad industry profits began to recover after decades of low profits and widespread railroad insolvencies.

According to the junta, only 20 % of the 8, 600 existing strategic hamlets were under Saigon's control, with the rest having been taken over by the communists, contradicting Nhu's claims of widespread success.

According to a widespread cliché, smoking has been part of French culture — actually figures indicate that in terms of consumption per capita, France is only the 60th country out of 121.

According to the Land Conservation Council Rivers & Streams Special Investigation 1990, " It is an important example of the large-scale biological systems that were once widespread in south-eastern Australia.

According to Amnesty International, " the widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations committed during the government of former head of state Alberto Fujimori ( 1990 – 2000 ) in Peru constitute crimes against humanity under international law.

According to others however, it was customary to recite the formula in various lands of the Jewish dispersion, and it is clear likewise from Amram's Siddur that the usage was widespread as early as his time in Spain.

According to the Dictionary of the Fungi ( 10th edition, 2008 ), the widespread genus contains over 300 species.

According to Diamond: " The idea of taking dominion over secular society gained widespread currency with the 1981 publication of ... Schaeffer's book A Christian Manifesto.

According to Paul R. Abramson, the widespread availability of pornography during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) gave rise to an anti-pornography movement, culminating in the passage of the Comstock Act in 1873, but which also dealt with birth control and abortion issues.

According to widespread reports, torturers beat and caned the soles of the football players ' feet — inflicting intense pain without leaving visible marks on the rest of their bodies.

According to CORE, “ school segregation a damaging bacteria, a psychological handicap, which a disease generating widespread unemployment and crime in Chicago .”

According to Robertson, the shift to sustainability is likely to require a widespread shift of emphasis from raising incomes to reducing costs.

According to the records, after the Zhou dynasty conquered the Shang dynasty, one of the new ruling group's main problems was dealing with widespread inebriation with ethanol, associated with the Shang culture.

According to Kirkpatrick, authoritarian regimes merely try to control and / or punish their subjects ' behaviors, while totalitarian regimes moved beyond that into attempting to control the thoughts of their subjects, using not only propaganda, but brainwashing, re-education, widespread domestic espionage, and mass political repression based on state ideology.

According to the most widespread hypothesis they are transmitted by prions, though some other data suggest an involvement of a Spiroplasma infection.

According to social historian Eric Lott, " the widespread embarrassment and innuendo surrounding Elvis impersonation points more directly to the homoerotic implications built into such acts.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to Turkish folk tales, she was a French princess.

According to Steve Erlewine, its memorable guitar riffs, lumbering rhythms, psychedelic blues, groovy, bluesy shuffles and hints of English folk, made it " a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ".

According to Encyclopædia Britannica estimates ( as of 2005 ), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for some 6. 3 % of world population, and adherents of tribal religions (" ethnoreligionists ") for another 4. 0 %.

According to folk etymology, the area of Warmia is named after the legendary Prussian chief Warmo, whereas the name Ermland derives from his widow Erma.

According to a Bushmen folk tale of Namibia, the zebra was once all white, but acquired its black stripes after a fight with a baboon over a waterhole.

According to the tradition used in Virgil's Aeneid, Segesta was founded jointly by the territorial king Acestes ( who was son of the local river Crinisus by a Dardanian woman named Segesta or Egesta ) and by those of Aeneas ' folk who wished to remain behind with Acestes to found the city of Acesta.

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

" According to Mulvany, " The Viking trend presaged by Abigor was actually taking place around them, and it remains more ' true ' to how black metal is often defined than the folk influenced metal that followed.

According to the later folk image, Boone the trailblazer was too unsophisticated for the civilization which followed him and which eventually defrauded him of his land.

According to romantic folk etymology, Charing derives from French chère reine ( dear queen ), but the name was certainly used in the contemporary royal accounting records for the costs of constructing the cross.

According to the most famous folk tale, Cuhullin's power was contained in his middle finger.

" According to Weldon McDougal, Burke " turned theatres like the Apollo and the Uptown into churches, he had folk running down the aisles to be saved by his music.

According to Siobhán Marie Kilfeather the song is from the music hall style of the period, and while one cannot wholly dismiss the possibility that it is " based on an older folk song ", " neither melody nor words bear any relationship to the Irish tradition of street ballads.

According to English folk understanding of how witches accomplished affliction, when the dog ate the cake, the witch herself would be hurt because invisible particles she had sent to afflict the girls remained in the girls ' urine, and her cries of pain when the dog ate the cake would identify her as the witch.

According to Marco Deseriis, the main purpose of the LBP was to create " a folk hero of the information society " whereby knowledge workers and immaterial workers could organize and recognize themselves.

According a local folk tale, a cat, mouse and dog were traveling on a Chinese ship, when they attempted to steal a crystal from a merchant.

According to current archaeological discoveries, Chinese folk music dates back 7000 years.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

According to a research team studying Taiwanese folk religion at Providence University in central Taiwan, ceremonies are held for Mazu to symbolically go on a tour of inspection of every Mazu temple in Taiwan every year.

According to eastern folk belief, the tomb of Eve (), considered the grandmother of humanity, is located in Jeddah.

According to a North Korean writer, " Our musicians have pursued the party's policy of composing orchestral music based on famous songs and folk songs popular among our people and produced numerous instrumental pieces of a new type.

According to folk etymology, the name derived from " Wyvernhoe ", originating from the mythical beast called a wyvern and the previously mentioned ridge ( hoe ).

According to the New England Folk Network Web site, Massachusetts hosts more than a dozen annual folk music festivals.