According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.

According to Epiphanius's account of the Ebionites, the group believed that Jesus was chosen because of his sinless devotion to the will of God.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

According to textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to his account, some three thousand villagers had traveled to Manzanillo to greet the Spanish with loaves, fishes and other foodstuffs and were " without provocation, butchered ".

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to this account, Qi decided to sabotage Lu's reforms by sending 100 good horses and 80 beautiful dancing girls to the Duke of Lu.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

According to Chalmers, a naturalistic account of property dualism requires a new fundamental category of properties described by new laws of supervenience ; the challenge being analogous to that of understanding electricity based on the mechanistic and Newtonian models of materialism prior to Maxwell's equations.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Allen's account he was outraged, and left his visitors with veiled threats, indicating that attempts to enforce the judgment would be met with resistance.

According to another prisoner's account, Allen wandered off after learning of his son's death.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.

According to this account, Emperor Senka died in 539 at the age of 73 ; and succession passed to the third son of Emperor Keitai.

According to its account Suizei was the younger son of Jimmu's chief wife, Isukeyorihime.

According to Kitabatake Chikafusa's 14th century account, Mototsune resolved the problem of succession by simply going to visit Tokiyatsu-shinnō, where the kampaku addressed the prince as a sovereign and assigned imperial guards.

According to Thucydides, the Spartans acted in this way out of fear that the Athenians would switch sides and support the helots ; the offended Athenians repudiated their alliance with Sparta.

According to Holland, failure to appreciate key points of the de Broglie – Bohm theory has led to confusion, the key point being " that the trajectories of a many-body quantum system are correlated not because the particles exert a direct force on one another ( à la Coulomb ) but because all are acted upon by an entity – mathematically described by the wavefunction or functions of it – that lies beyond them.

According to a scholiast on Pindar, he once acted as peace-maker between Hieron and another Sicilian tyrant, Theron of Acragas, thus ending a war between them.

According to Best, the belief in mākutu was ' universal and prominent in pre-European times ' and acted as ' a disciplinary force in the old days ; it was one of the substitutes for civil law that preserved order in a Māori community.

According to Hippolytus of Rome in the third century CE, Anaximander claimed that living creatures were first formed in the " wet " when acted on by the Sun, and that they were different then than they are now.

According to Ritter, inspectors acted covertly on behalf of the United States to deliberately provoke Iraq into non-compliance, thus providing US war planners with a justification for war.

According to a CIA document released in 2000, French OAS member Albert Spaggiari also acted as intermediary for the DINA in Europe, as well as Italian neo-fascist terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie ( alias ALFA ).

According to some accounts the mua acted as a kind of high priest.

According to most interpretations, the unnamed "... slave, the elder of the household, who controlled all that was his " in Chayei Sarah 24: 2 who acted as a marriage broker ( shadchan ; shadkhán ) for Isaac was this Eliezer.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), paedophilia is specified as a form of paraphilia in which a person either has intense sexual urges towards children, and experiences recurrent sexual urges towards and fantasies about children that he or she has acted on or that cause distress or interpersonal difficulty.

According to his Memoirs he believed that Cromwell " had not appeared that he ever approved on any persons farther than he might make them subservient to his own ambitious designs ; ... and that the generality of the people that had engaged with us having acted upon no higher principles than those of civil liberty, and that they might be governed by their own consent, it could not be just to treat them in another manner upon any pretenses whatsoever.

According to the Communists and other critics of González Videla, he acted under pressure from the United States and out of a desire to forge closer economic and military bonds with the dominant superpower.

According to historian Henry Hallam, the first sénéchaux to receive judicial functions did so by an edict of Philip II of France in 1190, and " acted as the king's lieutenants in his domains ", or a sort of roving ambassadors or ministers for the throne.

According to one version of this theory, Juan Roa Sierra acted under the orders of CIA agents John Mepples Espirito ( alias Georgio Ricco ) and Tomás Elliot, as part of an anti-leftist plan supposedly called Operation Pantomime.

According to the second edition Player's Handbook, the druid class is only loosely patterned after the historical druids of Europe during the days of the Roman Empire and acted as advisors to chieftains with great influence over the tribesmen.

According to HG, many these tips were provided thanks to the spirit of the late British " psychic " Doris Stokes, who acted as an intermediary.

According to the French ambassador the Dutch acted from the motto: Gallicus amicus, non vicinus, or " The Frenchman is a good friend, but a bad neighbour ".

According to their beliefs, the Holy Spirit once acted through Mita and anointed Teófilo Vargas Seín ( born on October 23, 1921 ) as the first prophet of God in what they call the new manifestation of God, the third manifestation, the Holy Trinity-the father, son and the Holy Spirit.

According to Newton's second law in the form F = ma, fictitious forces always are proportional to the mass m acted upon.

According to police, the victim and accused knew each other, and they believe the alleged assailant acted alone.

According to Inspector Adrian Fyfe, the officer in charge at the scene, the first police officer on the scene, a traffic policeman, had acted appropriately.

According to progressive scholars, American judges steeped in laissez-faire economic theory, who identified with the nation ’ s capitalist class and harbored contempt for any effort to redistribute wealth or otherwise meddle with the private marketplace, acted on their own economic and political biases to strike down legislation that threatened to burden corporations or disturb the existing economic hierarchy.

According to the evidence collected by Amnesty International, the OJAL acted “ as one with the security forces ” and a number of people killed by these same security forces had “ received death threats some time beforehand from OJAL ”

According to pastoralist George Russell, Clarke had acted on information obtained from Mr Aitken, an Edinburgh man, who was most put out when he discovered that Clarke had beaten him to the Pentland Hills run.