According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

According to Alan Ware, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK retained viable conservative parties into the 1980s.

According to psychologist Bob Altemeyer, individuals who are politically conservative tend to rank high in Right-Wing Authoritarianism on his RWA scale.

According to the United States Department of Energy, the wide range of its current and projected uses, together with the lack of any immediately suitable replacement, makes dysprosium the single most critical element for emerging clean energy technologies-even their most conservative projections predict a shortfall of dysprosium before 2015.

According to a conservative estimate, about 40 percent of the island's original forest cover was lost from the 1950s to 2000, with a thinning of remaining forest areas by 80 percent.

According to historian B. D. Graham ( 1959 ), the graziers who operated the sheep stations were politically conservative.

According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.

According to Paul Samuelson, Gibbs generally voted for the Republican candidate in presidential elections, but supported Grover Cleveland, a conservative Democrat.

According to the organization's website, members share a common belief that " government closest to the people " is " fundamentally more effective, more just, and a better guarantor of freedom than the distant, bloated federal government in Washington, D. C ." The organization has been described as a " collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators.

According to historian Eric Foner, Andrew Johnson's conservative view of Reconstruction did not include blacks or former slaves involvement in government and he refused to heed Northern concerns when southern state legislatures implemented Black Codes that lowered the status of the freedmen similar to slavery.

According to Rudd, a " brutopia " is a place of " unchecked market forces ", incompatible with both " fairness " and " the so-called conservative institutions of family, community, church and country ".

According to Marxist historian Christopher Hill: The Civil War was a class war, in which the despotism of Charles I was defended by the reactionary forces of the established Church and conservative landlords, and on the other side stood the trading and industrial classes in town and countryside.

According to Portland news / radio station KXL, Norman's early social positions caused a stir among many conservative Christians.

According to Frum, " AEI represents the best of the conservative world ... But the elite isn ’ t leading anymore ... I think Arthur took no pleasure in this.

According to Helen Burns “ Roosevelt met with severe criticism from the liberals and the progressives for not nationalizing the bank during the period of crisis .” She states “ there seems little doubt that he could have done this ” but she also concludes Roosevelt “ did not believe in a government-owned and-operated bank ” and was ultimately pragmatic or even conservative in his approach to banking legislation.

According to Horist, " Hanssen presented himself as one of the more conservative and patriotic students.

According to Kampfner, " Wolfowitz used his perch at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as a test-bed for a new conservative world vision.

According to Nicole Gaouette, in her report published in the Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2007, Juan José Daboub — the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and " a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party "— repeatedly deleted references to family planning from World Bank proposals.

According to the conservative magazine Weekly Standard, CSE's greatest political success came in 1993 when it opposed Bill Clinton's proposal for a BTU energy tax.

According to Shrimpton, who claimed that the brevity of the skirt was due mainly to Rolfe's having insufficient material, the ensuing controversy was as much as anything to do with her having dispensed with a hat and gloves, seen as the essential accessories in such conservative society.

According to Carolina Armenteros, Maistre's writings influenced not only conservative political thinkers, but also the Utopian socialists.

According to the conservative lobbying organization Family Research Council, studies in the US indicate that age discrepancy between the teenage girls and the men who impregnate them is an important contributing factor.

According to Kevin O ' Higgins, the Minister for Justice, " we were the most conservative group of revolutionaries ever to have carried out a successful revolution ".

According to the website of The American Prospect, " at the dawn of a new progressive era and a time of economic transformation for the United States and the world, the magazine's founding purpose was to demonstrate that progressive ideas could animate a majority politics ; to restore to intellectual and political respectability the case for social investment ; to energize civic democracy and give voice to the disenfranchised ; and to counteract the growing influence of conservative media.

According to The Handbook of Texas Online, the Chronicle generally represented very conservative political views during the 1950s:

According to Matthew Henry a Bible commentator who flourished in the 17th century, Ezekiel is also believed to have been known as Nazaratus Assyrius, a teacher to Pythagorus.

" According to the medieval commentator Uvata, the five tributaries of the Sarasvati were the Punjab rivers Drishadvati, Satudri ( Sutlej ), Chandrabhaga ( Chenab ), Vipasa ( Beas ) and the Iravati ( Ravi ).

According to television commentator Charlie Brooker, this type of reality television was enabled by the advent of computer-based non-linear editing systems for video ( such as those produced by Avid Technology ) in 1989.

According to at least one commentator, as many as ten percent of male Academy graduates in the late 1970s and early 1980s requested Army commissions, in part because of controversy over such issues.

According to economic commentator and smart growth critic Randal O ' Toole, the main goal of traffic calming is to increase congestion of motor traffic.

According to Nidhi Eoseewong, a prominent Thai historian, writer, and political commentator, Taksin could be seen as the originator, new style of leader, promoting the ' decentralized ' kingdom and new generation of the nobles, of Chinese merchants-origin, his major helpers in the wars.

According to one commentator, a significant factor in the development of bukkake as a pornographic form was the mandatory censorship in Japan where genitals must be pixelated by a " mosaic ".

According to one commentator, retaliation against suicide attacks further increases the group's sense of victimization and commitment to adhere to doctrine and policy.

According to a commentator, the spoils from the east were given to the Hotar, while the Adhvaryu a maiden ( a daughter of the sacrificer ) and the sacrificer's fourth wife.

According to the Christian Broadcasting Network commentator Carl Moeller, spiritual warfare is practiced even in North Korea, a country that has been described as the most dangerous place on earth to be Christian.

According to this hypothesis, supported by the Latin commentator Servius, Canusium derives from canis ( dog ), an animal associated with the Greek god Aphrodite en kepois.

According to 19th-century commentator Mrs A. T. Thomson, Jerdan took notice of the young Landon when he saw her coming down the street, " trundling a hoop with one hand, and holding in the other a book of poems, of which she was catching a glimpse between the agitating course of her evolutions.

According to one commentator, some minor planning can turn the 2-month period previously mentioned into an indefinite loan.

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

According to Ibn Al-Kalbi, the image was made of red agate, whereas Al-Azraqi, an early Islamic commentator, described it as of " cornelian pearl ".

According to one commentator, " political patron then-Senator Joseph Biden.

According to Yossi Olmert, a political commentator, Machsom Watch volunteers " disrupt the work of soldiers at checkpoints who are trying, not always successfully, to prevent the entry of terrorists.

According to French political commentator Jérôme Fourquet, during the Mitterrand case she broke through and gained a media ascendancy over the party.

According to one commentator, Americans use pauses such as " um " or " uh ," the British say " er " or " erm ", the French use " euh ", the Germans say " äh " ( pronounced eh or er ), Japanese use " ā ", " anō ", or " ēto ", and Spanish speakers say " ehhh " ( also used in Hebrew ), " como " ( normally meaning ' like '), and " este " ( normally meaning ' this ').

According to the Byzantine commentator John the Lydian, the unknown author of the 7th century BCE epic poem, the Titanomachy, placed the birth of Zeus, not in Crete, but in Lydia, which should signify Mount Sipylus.

According to an urban myth, during a Test match between the West Indies and England when Holding was to bowl to English player Peter Willey, the commentator at the time, Brian Johnston, described the action as " The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey " ( a double entendre, as " willy " is British English slang for a penis ).

According to conservative commentator Deroy Murdock,

According to commentator Jim Ross as he appeared on the 2007 Four Horsemen DVD, if not for the Horsemen, there would never have been a DX, a New World Order, a Million Dollar Corporation or an Evolution.

According to a commentator of the time “ owing to his extravagance from one of the richest commoners in Ireland he became so embarrassed that he was obliged to sell Straffan and live abroad.