According to several accounts of this time, guilds became increasingly involved in simple territorial struggles against each other and against free practitioners of their arts.

According to the survey conducted by the All Japan Kendo Federation, the number of active kendo practitioners in Japan is 477, 000 in which 290, 000 dan holders are included.

" According an journalist Ethan Gutmann, security officers had been expecting them, and corralled the practitioners onto Fuyou Street in front of Zhongnanhai government compound.

According to Zhao, Falun Gong practitioners have established a " resistance identity "— one that stands against prevailing pursuits of wealth, power, scientific rationality, and " the entire value system associated with China's project of modernization.

According to James Tong, the regime aimed at both coercive dissolution of the Falun Gong denomination and " transformation " of the practitioners.

According to the Vajrayana tradition, at certain times the bodymind is in a very subtle state which can be used by advanced practitioners to transform the mindstream.

According to Heimskringla's account, king Olaf had practitioners of seiðr tied and left on a skerry at tide | ebb.

According to a 2000 census, China is home to approximately 9. 8 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some practice other religions.

According to Tripitaka Master Shramana Hsuan Hua of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, All of these beings are invoked ( hooked and summoned ) and exhorted to behave ( subdued ) and protect the Dharma and its practitioners in the Shurangama Mantra

According to Thomas A Potterfield, many organizational theorists and practitioners regard employee empowerment as one of the most important and popular management concepts of our time.

According to practitioners, there are various ecstasy stages, the highest is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

According to the Party's official historian this period was marked by a growing division between the practitioners of cultural politics – heavily inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci and party's powerful industrial department which advocated a policy of militant labourism.

: " According to various gossip columnists in chiropractic, our profession appears to be currently enmeshed in a brutal civil war between BOOP ( bone-out-of-place ) practitioners and low back pain practitioners.

According to certain proponents of the Paleolithic diet, practitioners should derive about 56 – 65 % of their food energy from animal foods and 36 – 45 % from plant foods.

According to Wagner, the basic methodology is to use “ spiritual mapping ” to locate areas, demon-possessed persons, occult practitioners such as witches and FreeMasons, or occult idol objects like statues of Catholic saints, which are then named and fought, using methods ranging from intensive prayer to burning with fire, “ they must burn the idols … the kinds of material things that might be bringing honor to the spirits of darkness: pictures, statues, Catholic saints, Books of Mormon … and what have you ….

According to Garzon, this raised questions about some practitioners ' level of training.

According to Hugh de Ferranti, modern, live performances of biwa narrative singing are rare, with almost all performers as “ practitioners of chikuzenbiwa and satsumabiwa ”.

According to Quigley: practitioners of anthropology cling on to the flotsam of a theory which their own evidence devastatingly undermines.

According to Bernstein, “ these themes are also basic applications of urbanism .” As pragmatism shares a history of development with modern cities, both pragmatists and urban practitioners have influenced each other.

According to Vicenzo Perna, author of Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis, timba needs to be spoken of because of its musical, cultural, social, and political reasons ; its sheer popularity in Cuba, its novelty and originality as a musical style, the skill of its practitioners, its relationship with both local traditions and the culture of the black Diaspora, its meanings, and the way its style brings to light the tension points within society.

According to some observers, one may trim the beard after a loss in an effort to change the team's luck ; Jim Dowd and Roberto Luongo were such practitioners.

According to the National Surgical Assistant Association ( NSAA ), the average annual salary for the non-physician surgical first assistant in 2005 ranged from $ 50, 000 ( entry level ) to $ 150, 000 annually for full-time practitioners, with top wages reaching $ 200, 000 yearly.

According to Lee Hee-Soo ( Yi Hui-su ), president of the Korea Islam Institute, there are about 40, 000 listed Muslims in South Korea, and about 10, 000 are estimated to be highly active practitioners.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to anthropologists Todd Sanders and Harry G. West, evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.

According to Orthodox teaching the position of “ First Among Equals ” gives no additional power or authority to the bishop that holds it, but rather that this person sits as organizational head of a council of equals ( like a president ).

According to Nihongi, he had six wives ; but Kojiki only gives five wives, identifying the third consort to the sixth one.

According to the Talmud, prayer is a Biblical commandment and the Talmud gives two reasons why there are three basic prayers: to recall the daily sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem, and / or because each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening.

According to some, the modern name of the mountain is Diaforti ( Gell gives " Dioforti " or " Dioforte "), which is presumed to consist of two Greek words: " Dias ", the name of Zeus in modern Greek, and " fero ," a verb meaning " I bring ," thus meaning that Mount Lykaion is a mountain that brings Zeus.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the " deep tension between the Kantian moral imperatives and a Nietzschean diagnosis of the modern cultural world is apparently what gives such a darkly tragic and agnostic shade to Weber's ethical worldview.

According to John of Fordun, whose account is the original source of part at least of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Malcolm's mother was a niece of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, but an earlier king-list gives her the Gaelic name Suthen.

According to the rules of quantum field theory, and the associated Feynman diagrams, the above theory gives rise to three basic interactions: a quark may emit ( or absorb ) a gluon, a gluon may emit ( or absorb ) a gluon, and two gluons may directly interact.

According to the de Broglie hypothesis, every object in the universe is a wave, a situation which gives rise to this phenomenon.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the Cherusci were defeated by the Chatti but this also gives no date.

According to him it is obvious that the culture on Tierra del Fuego is at a lower level of development than the European culture, but he also admits that the conditions of life there are much more difficult and this gives people very little chance to develop a higher culture.

According to Michael Levey, " Raphael gives his a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties ".

According to Theoretical Synthesis, " when a stimulus is presented short and clarity is uncertain that gives a vague stimulus, perception becomes a top-down approach.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Marcellinus was buried on 26 April 304 in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom ; the Liberian Catalogue gives as the date 25 October.

According to another story which al-Tabari gives, Balaam was a renegade Israelite who knew the Most Sacred Name and, to gain the things of this world, went over to the Canaanites.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

According to the text, once back at Ziklag, David sent portions of the spoil to the various community leaders within Judah ; the text gives a list of the locations of the recipients, but they are all just within the Negev.

According to Buddha's teaching the soul ( as that structure of sankharas that gives rise to incarnation and animates the body during ' life ') is not a fixed entity but in a state of constant flux-being modified over time by actions of body, speech and mind.

According to some sources, however, two of the Niobids who had supplicated Leto were spared: Apollodorus gives their names as Meliboea ( Chloris ) and Amyclas.

According to the Hastings Gazette ," the party returned from their trip into Dakota Territory on Thursday, having located a goodly quantity of land, and gives a glowing description of the country ".

According to the right-hand rule, a current dipole gives rise to a magnetic field that flows around the axis of its vector component.

According to IAS 32 and 39, it is defined as " any contract that gives rise to a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity instrument of another entity ".

According to Evangelical theologian Charles C. Ryrie, modern liberal theology " gives an exaggerated place to the abilities of man to decide his own fate and to effect his own salvation entirely apart from God's grace.