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 SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to this pact, the Liberals would support the government in crucial votes in exchange for some influence over policy.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

According to a tweet by Industry Minister Tony Clement, unless the CRTC reverses this decision, the government will use its override power to reverse the decision.

According to some sources, Mohéli did return to government control in 1998.

According to Anthony Quinton, classical liberals believe that " an unfettered market " is the most efficient mechanism to satisfy human needs and channel resources to their most productive uses: they " are more suspicious than conservatives of all but the most minimal government.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress.

According to Dedham's Charter, the " administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of the town, with the government thereof, shall be vested in a legislative branch, to consist of a representative town meeting.

According to Rummel, these were not cases of genocide because those who were killed were not selected on the basis of their race, but were killed in large numbers as a result of government policies.

According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

According to the Eritrean government, artisanal mining in 1998 collected 573. 4 kilograms of gold.

According to the International Monetary Fund, commercial banks in Eritrea — all government owned and operated — appear to be in compliance with prudent regulations.

According to the Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve is independent within government in that " its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government.

According to Klein and Ralston, the merging of companies into giant corporations or the privatization of government-run industry and national assets often result in monopolies ( or oligopolies ) requiring government intervention to force competition and reasonable prices.

According to the British government, the fence was erected 1 metre inside British territory.

According to CNN, " Hezbollah did everything that a government should do, from collecting the garbage to running hospitals and repairing schools.

According to the Italian government, there were 4, 570, 317 foreign residents in Italy as of January 2011.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to Suetonius, the imperial bureaucracy never ran more efficiently than under Domitian, whose exacting standards and suspicious nature maintained historically low corruption among provincial governors and elected officials.

According to security officials, the man was planning attacks for Hezbollah in Cyprus and admitted this after questioning.

According to officials, he had been killed soon after the abduction.

According to SB 1070, law-enforcement officials may not consider “ race, color, or national origin ” in the enforcement of the law, except under the circumstances allowed under the United States and Arizona constitutions.

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

According to POLISARIO officials,

According to the Los Angeles Times article, " The agency also asked the dozens of families that contacted officials to look for signs of disturbances -- shifted or cracked gravestones or anything else that appeared different from previous visits -- and didn ’ t receive a single call back, he said ".

According to him, officials generally agree that some kind of planned sex education is necessary.

According to local residents and unnamed American and Yemeni government officials, on 14 July 2011 US manned aircraft or drones attacked and destroyed a police station in Mudiya in Abyan Province which had been occupied by al Qaeda militants.

According to Yemeni officials as reported in the Long War Journal, US airstrikes in southeast Abyan province on 30 August to 1 September 2011 killed 30 AQAP militants.

According to Yemeni government officials, a US airstrike on 14 October 2011 killed seven AQAP militants, including Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Bana, AQAP's media chief.

According to the charges, the bribes were frequently made by over-invoicing customers and paying the excess back to top government officials or their proxies.

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

According to an article in The New York Times: " What the Tony broadcast does have, say CBS officials, is an all-important demographic: rich and smart.

According to the cables, the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Korea was told by the two Chinese officials that Korea should be reunified under South Korean rule, and that this opinion was gaining ground among Chinese leaders.

According to intelligence officials, the view of government historians that the report should become public was rebuffed by policymakers concerned that comparisons might be made to intelligence used to justify the Iraq War ( Operation Iraqi Freedom ) that commenced in 2003.

According to documents and interviews with federal officials, investigators and targets of the sanctions, the U. S. government:

According to the UNDP, Algeria has one of the world's highest per housing unit occupancy rates for housing, and government officials have publicly stated that the country has an immediate shortfall of 1. 5 million housing units.

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 Kurdish Intelligence officials, Yassin Jarad, allegedly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law, carried out the car bombing.

According to the report, eight officials accepted gifts from energy companies whose value exceeded limits set by ethics rules — including golf, ski, and paintball outings ; meals ; drinks ; and tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game, and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.

The investigation also concluded that several of the officials “ frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives .” According to the New York Times, " The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration ’ s watch.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission, this refusal of a visa was motivated by general concern by U. S. officials that people from Yemen would illegally overstay their visit and seek work in the United States.