According to most scholars, the main sutras of Mahayana were written after 100 BCE, when sectarian conflicts arose among Nikaya Buddhist sects regarding the humanity or super-humanity of the Buddha and questions of metaphysical essentialism, on which Greek thought may have had some influence: " It may have been a Greek-influenced and Greek-carried form of Buddhism that passed north and east along the Silk Road ".

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

According to the Eclogae Propheticae, every thousand years every member of each order moves up a degree, and thus men can become angels.

According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".

According to their website, one of the reasons for transitioning from COCU to CUIC is so that member churches " stop ' consulting ' and start living their unity in Christ more fully.

According to OED (" A member of a class of robbers in India and Burma, who plunder in armed bands.

According to the National Center for Victims of Crime a large proportion of rape committed in the United States is perpetrated by a family member:

The Senate report also states " According to al-Libi, after his decision to fabricate information for debriefers, he ' lied about being a member of al-Qa ' ida.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

According to Turner's narrative, he urged — and Hobart agreed — that before its final deposit in the museum, the stone should be presented to scholars at the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which Turner was a member.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

According to tradition, Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised in a Christian family.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

According to Don Rosa's timelines the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an, as of yet, unnamed member of the clan sold stone to the construction crew of Hadrian's wall.

According to Erik Sakkov, board member of Tallinn Airport, the future plans include expanding the runway by 600 – 700 metres to serve regular long-haul flights, also building of a brand-new taxiway, new storage facilities, a new point-to-point terminal and expansion of the existing passenger terminal, so it can serve arriving and departing passengers on two different levels.

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.

According to founding SEAL team member Roy Boehm the SEAL's first missions were directed against communist Cuba.

According to Palestinian and Israeli sources he was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

According to the journalist Jeff Sharlet in his book of 2008, Thurmond was a member of the Family ( also known as the Fellowship ).

According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the power ( x + y )< sup > n </ sup > into a sum involving terms of the form ax < sup > b </ sup > y < sup > c </ sup >, where the exponents b and c are nonnegative integers with, and the coefficient a of each term is a specific positive integer depending on n and b. When an exponent is zero, the corresponding power is usually omitted from the term.

According to a poll at a Quantum Mechanics workshop in 1997 ,< ref > the Copenhagen interpretation is the most widely-accepted specific interpretation of quantum mechanics, followed by the many-worlds interpretation.

According to this view, any form of specific coercion is then unethical in itself as an injury to freedom, quite apart from its damaging effects on social progress.

According to Sunni beliefs, Muhammad gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he died.

According to Christadelphians, these terms are used in reference to specific political systems or individuals in opposition or conflict.

According to the theory of evolution, genetic variations occur without specific design or intent.

According to the Mevo Hatalmud many rulings were given about specific things that could have been taken out of context or where a ruling was revisited but the second ruling was not as popularly known.

According to the correspondence principle, there is no contradiction or conflict between the two subjects, each simply pertains to specific situations.

According to Rand, attaining knowledge beyond what is given in perception requires both volition ( or the exercise of free will ) and adherence to a specific method of validation through observation, concept-formation, and the application of inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning.

According to Rand, consciousness possesses a specific and finite identity, just like everything else that exists ; therefore, it must operate by a specific method of validation.

According to them, prairie dog calls contain specific information as to what the predator is, how big it is and how fast it is approaching.

According to Slobodchikoff, these calls, with their individuality in response to a specific predator, imply that prairie dogs have highly developed cognitive abilities.

According to Chaturvedy, "... Political scientists may serve as advisers to specific politicians, or even run for office as politicians themselves.

According to current Good Manufacturing Practice ( GMP ), medical device manufacturers have the responsibility to use good judgment when developing their quality system and apply those sections of the FDA Quality System ( QS ) Regulation that are applicable to their specific products and operations, in Part 820 of the QS regulation.

According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

According to some Christian and other mono-theistic traditions, God is not " all-powerful " because He is bound by specific laws and guidelines that are a part of His fundamental nature.

According to census data, about 14 million people practise traditional religion in Nigeria, most of whom are Yoruba practising Vodun, but no specific breakdown is available.

According to the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Akasha is one of the five Mahābhūtas ( grand physical elements ) having the specific property of sound.

According to her power PC theory, people filter observations of events through a basic belief that causes have the power to generate ( or prevent ) their effects, thereby inferring specific cause-effect relations.

According to the CDC, 32 .% of traumatic brain injuries ( another, more specific, term for head injuries ) are caused by falls, 10 % by assaults, 16. 5 % by being struck or against something, 17 .% by motor vehicle accidents, 21 % by other / unknown ways.

According to Morrow, the CTW model consisted of four parts: " the interaction of receptive television producers and child science experts, the creation of a specific and age-appropriate curriculum, research to shape the program directly, and independent measurement of viewers ' learning ".

According to Marxists, even literature itself is a social institution and has a specific ideological function, based on the background and ideology of the author.

According to one theory, the word " sabotage " is derived from this specific meaning of " sabot ".