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 popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to his own statement, he was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.

" According to his suggestion, the Bolshevik party was renamed the Communist Party of Soviet Union.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to The New York Times the system is called " shuanggui " and is greatly feared by corrupt party functionaries.

According to party rules, the Central Committee was to convene at least twice a year to discuss political matters ( but not matters relating to military policy ).

According to another opinion, he did not join the first party so as not to compete, even involuntarily, with Jeshua ben Jozadak for the office of chief priest.

According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1, 300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

According to Edmond Ludlow, " The Wallingford House party, as if infatuated by a superior power to procure their own destruction, continued obstinately to oppose the Parliament, and fixed in their resolution to call another ( that is a reformed Parliament more agreeable to their interests ).

According to Ben Pimlott, his appointment was intended to please the left of the party and the Trade Unions.

According to Soviet advisors ( in 1987 ), a bitter debate within the party had broken out between those who advocated the islamisation of the party and those who wanted to defend the gains of the Saur Revolution.

According to the party, such a group " dissolves collective stress, as indicated by significant reductions in crime, unemployment, sickness, and accidents, and improved economic indicators and quality of life ".

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 American sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, after Leonid Brezhnev's accession to power in October 1964, the party considerably expanded its appointment authority.

" According to Abdul, the man at the party argued with her, grabbed her by the arm and threw her against a wall ," Vernon said.

Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." According to Cornwell, a worrying impression of stereotypical anti-Semitic contempt is discernible in the ' catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness ' and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".

According to Balakrishna " as long as the Sena confined its activities to the Mumbai-Thane belt, Congress leaders like Murli Deora, who headed the party unit in Mumbai for two decades, never confronted the Sena ".

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince Vijaya and his party of seven hundred followers who arrived on the island in 543 BCE.

According to biographers, Saddam never forgot the tensions within the first Ba ' athist government, which formed the basis for his measures to promote Ba ' ath party unity as well as his resolve to maintain power and programs to ensure social stability.

According to The Sacramento Bee, Oller said his decision to drop out was " a bitter pill indeed for me to swallow.

According to their website, Ceres Power, a UK SOFC fuel cell manufacturer, has developed a method of reducing the operating temperature of their SOFC system to 500-600 degrees Celsius.

According to the midrash Genesis Rabba, Abraham's father, Terah, was both an idol manufacturer and worshipper.

According to the manufacturer it can be used to produce new kinds of mixed meats ( for example combining beef and fish seamlessly ).

* Extension defined by monitor manufacturer ( FFh ): According to LS-EXT, actual contents varies from manufacturer.

* According to Remington, manufacturer of an IPL hair remover, all IPL and laser devices should only be used on light to medium skin tones, and work best on darker hair.

According to piano historian Arthur Loesser ( reference below ), the first spinet piano was offered to the public in May 1935, by an American manufacturer Loesser does not identify.

According to the earliest manufacturer of ice axes, Grivel, these two tools were merged to create the first true ice axe around 1840.

According to the manufacturer, the fishermen began to refer to the lozenges as " friends ", hence the name.

According to the manufacturer no preservatives are required as the alcohol content preserves the cream.

According to pierogi manufacturer Mrs. T's, based in Shenandoah, PA, pierogi consumption in the United States is largely concentrated in a geographical region dubbed the " Pierogi Pocket ", an area including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, Detroit, parts of the northern Midwest and southern New England which accounts for 68 percent of annual US pierogi consumption.

According to the DEX-COOL manufacturer, " mixing a ' green ' coolant with DEX-COOL reduces the batch's change interval to 2 years or 30, 000 miles, but will otherwise cause no damage to the engine.

According to one survey, more than half of dealership customers would prefer to buy directly from the manufacturer, even if eliminating the dealer from the transaction would save them no money.

According to the manufacturer, Vectorworks is used in 85 countries worldwide.

According to Sydney Bristow in the episode Q and A, the Alliance of Twelve was responsible for the carbon proxy disaster in 1992, in which an accidental methyl isocyanate leak at the manufacturer plant in Bangalore, India killed three thousand people and injured another thousand, leaving them disabled.

According to the hoax, Claude Litre was born on 12 February 1716, the son of a manufacturer of wine bottles.

According to Pfizer, the manufacturer of Lipitor, clinical trials " do not establish a causal link between Lipitor and memory loss.

According to the manufacturer, the LCD was designed to be optically magnified to yield a vivid image and therefore expected to find use in high-resolution eye-wear devices.

According to Farran Technologies, a manufacturer of one model of the millimeter wave scanner, the technology exists to extend the search area to as far as 50 meters beyond the scanning area which would allow security workers to scan a large number of people without their awareness that they are being scanned.

According to the manufacturer 1, 351, 254 Peugeot 505s were produced between 1978 and 1999: of these 1, 116, 868 were saloons / sedans.

According to its manufacturer, while Demron shields the wearer from radiation alone, it can be coupled with different protective materials to block chemical and biological threats as well.

According to a history by helmet manufacturer Riddell, the championship Yale football team switched to crew cuts in 1895, which became the style for football as well as crew and " remained in fashion for nearly 70 years ".

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, WIDEBAND is a registered trademark of WideBand Corporation, a USA based manufacturer of Gigabit Ethernet equipment.

According to material on the Funding Universe website, by 1982 Hazleton had become the largest independent biological testing company and life sciences laboratory in the United States, as well as the largest manufacturer of laboratory equipment in the world.

According to the manufacturer, the name of the liqueur is based on a legend of a hermit named Fra Angelico who " created unique recipes for liqueurs.