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 the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

According to Maureen Walsh, only around 4 % of hazardous wastes that come from OECD countries are actually shipped across international borders.

According to Kenneth S. Rogoff, " Although the development of international capital markets was quite limited prior to 1800, we nevertheless catalog the numerous defaults of France, Portugal, Prussia, Spain, and the early Italian city-states.

According to international law a blockade is an act of war, but the Kennedy administration did not think that the USSR would be provoked to attack by a mere blockade.

According to the World Tourism Organization, international tourism receipts in 2002 were only US $ 73 million ( compared with US $ 730 million for Tanzania ).

According to international conventions governing the laws of war, small arms are defined ( with some exceptions ) as firearms which fire a projectile not in excess of 15 mm ( 0. 60 inches ) in diameter.

According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

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 the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to the report, the guidelines require that programs run by humanitarian groups " enhance and safeguard the national interest " and that international organizations coordinate with state agents and select their Burmese staff from government-prepared lists of individuals.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to the international definition adopted by the XIV Congress of the International Naturist Federation ( Agde, France, 1974 ), naturism is:

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), states are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, if they ratify at least two of the five protocols.

According to HRW, those extrajudicial executions would qualify as forced disappearances if they had been carried out by agents of the government or on its behalf, but nevertheless remained " blatant violations of the FARC-EP's obligations under international humanitarian law and in particular key provisions of article 4 of Protocol II, which protects against violence to the life, physical, and mental well-being of persons, torture, and ill-treatment.

According to international scholar Thorwald Lorenzen, the first Easter led to a shift in emphasis from faith " in God " to faith " in Christ.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

According to the CIA World Factbook, private telephone companies " offer service in most major cities " via wireless technology, charging " the lowest international rates on the continent ",

According to the NRC Handelsblad journalist Jaap Bloembergen, the country " takes a carnival look " during international skating championships.

According to the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, the UN, ICJ and international law experts, there is no contradiction between the principles of self-determination and territorial integrity, with the latter taking precedence.

According to the preamble in The Law of treaties, treaties are a source of international law.

According to Stephen Spratt, " the revenues raised could be used for ... international development objectives ... such as meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

According to the World Bank's Articles of Agreement ( as amended effective 16 February 1989 ), all of its decisions must be guided by a commitment to promote foreign investment, international trade, and facilitate capital investment.

According to the Rettig commission and the Valech Report, close to 3, 200 were executed or " disappeared ", and at least 29, 000 imprisoned and tortured.

According to the biblical history, one of the first acts of Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of Babylon, was to commission the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, a task which they are said to have completed c. 515.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

According to Michelangelo's account, Bramante and Raphael convinced the Pope to commission Michelangelo in a medium not familiar to the artist.

According to Vasari, Uccello ’ s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo.

According to the commission staff: " Their actions saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the U. S. Capitol or the White House from destruction.

According to the Cockpit transcript released later, it appeared Saeed may have been at the controls of the flight when it crashed, although the 9 / 11 commission asserts that Ziad Jarrah was the pilot.

According to the preface to the Code, " From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation.

According to published transcripts of Johnson's presidential phone conversations, some major officials were opposed to forming such a commission and several commission members took part only with extreme reluctance.

According to historian John M. Taylor: " Early in 1639 the General Court granted a commission to Ludlow to begin a plantation at Pequannocke.

According to one biographer, Dr. Osler was emotionally crushed by the loss ; he was particularly anguished by the fact that his influence had been used to procure a military commission for his son, who had mediocre eyesight.

According to Julian Symons, " Ellery ... occasionally lost his father, as his exploits took place more frequently in the small town of Wrightsville ... where his arrival as a house guest was likely to be the signal for the commission of one or more murders.

According to William Hutchinson a commission, had been issued in 1576 or 1577 to examine matters of complaint against him, but had proved ineffectual because the Earl of Huntingdon and Matthew Hutton sided with the dean against the third commissioner, Sandys.

In 1871, President Grant's appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, worked out an agreement with British representative Sir John Rose in Washington to create a commission consisting of six members from the British Empire and six members from the United States to resolve the Alabama claims, refinancing, and other international disputes between Canada and the United States by treaty. On March 8, 1871 the Treaty of Washington was signed at the State Department and the United States Senate ratified the treaty on May 24, 1871. According to the treaty, an international arbitration tribunal met in Geneva.

According to an interim report released on February 3, 2005 by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's commission ( see # Investigations below ), much of the food aid supplied under the programme " was unfit for human consumption ".

According to the testimony of his son Jeremy, taken around 1699 was received in audience by " his brother king ," Charles II and was given a " lac'd hat " and a commission " to kindly use and relieve such straggling Englishment as should chance to come that way.

According to 1945 and 1946 FCC documents, the three major factors which the commission considered in its decision to place FM in the 88 – 108 MHz band were sporadic E co-channel interference, F2 layer interference, and extent of coverage.

According to the commission, the laws also have been used by husbands and other male family members to punish their wives and female family members for reasons that have nothing to do with perceived sexual impropriety.

According to Munro, “ each intendant received from the king a commission of appointment setting forth his jurisdiction and powers .” These commissions varied but disclosed a broad line of uniformity.

According to the official count of the 1984 truth commission, between 1976 and 1979, 8, 353 Argentinians were killed or " disappeared ", and other 113 were killed or disappeared at the hands of the military regime between 1980 and 1983.

According to the official count of the 1984 truth commission, between 1976 and 1979, 8, 353 Argentinians were killed or " disappeared ", and other 113 were killed or disappeared at the hands of the military regime between 1980 and 1983.

According to the norms of its present statutes, which came into effect in 1990, the IOR is directed by a supervisory council and by an oversight commission of cardinals.

According to the SVP, the racism penalty and anti-racism commission should be abolished in the interest of freedom of speech.