According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to psychologist Bob Altemeyer, individuals who are politically conservative tend to rank high in Right-Wing Authoritarianism on his RWA scale.

According to the 2010 census 18 other U. S. metros rank as having greater black-white segregation while 32 other U. S. metros rank higher for black-white isolation.

According to the Rouché – Capelli theorem, the system is inconsistent if the rank of the augmented matrix is greater than the rank of the coefficient matrix.

According to Walter Mapes in De Nugis Curialium ( Trifles of Courtiers ), Pope Sylvester II ( 999 – 1003 ) was involved with a succubus named Meridiana, who helped him achieve his high rank in the Catholic Church.

According to Josephus, Caligula donned female garb and took part in the mysteries he instituted, and in the Hellenistic age Isis acquired a " new rank as a leading goddess of the Mediterranean world.

According to a worldwide ranking by the École des Mines de Paris, Concordia ranks first among Canadian and 33rd among world universities in terms of graduates occupying the rank of Chief Executive Officer at Fortune 500 companies.

According to Eunapius, the very last Hierophant was a usurper, " the man from Thespiae who held the rank of Father in the mysteries of Mithras.

According to letters in Curtis LeMay's service record, while he was in command of SAC during the 1950s several petitions were made by Air Force service members to have LeMay promoted to the rank of General of the Air Force ( five stars ).

* According to the 2012 US News & Report, UNCG is classified as a Tier 1 University with an overall National University rank of # 189 among public colleges and universities in the United States.

According to Julius Caesar, the slaves and dependents of Gauls of rank would be burnt along with the body of their master as part of his funerary rites.

According to the Annuario Pontificio, the official yearbook of the Holy See, Monaco has maintained a diplomatic representative to the Holy See with the rank of minister plenipotentiary since 1915.

According to the Korean historical document Samguk Sagi ( 삼국사기, 三國史記 ), Goguryeo sent a diplomatic representative to the Han Dynasty in 32 AD, and the Emperor Guangwu of Han granted the official rank of Goguryeo.

According to him, all its members of whatever rank followed the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, upon which republicanism is founded.

According to ABA data Penn Law's admission and yield rates are generally on par with its peers, and in some cases better relatively to the school's general rank ( e. g. NYU and Chicago have higher admission and lower yield rates than Penn Law ).

According to the late 4th-century Notitia Dignitatum, it was headed by a governor of the rank of praeses, and was also the seat of the dux Mesopotamiae, who ranked as vir spectabilis and commanded ( c. 400 ) the following troops:

According to the licensing service for a private carry permit, a permit may be issued to a legal resident over the age of 21, that is working or living in dangerous zones defined by the Ministry ; an individual who works in specific professions listed by the Ministry or individuals who served in the Israeli Defense Force or other military agencies, at the rank of Captain or equivalent ( currently serving in the standing army or reserves ), retired officers at a rank of Lt.

According to Hugh Chisholm, editor of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica: " Lord Acton has left too little completed original work to rank among the great historians ; his very learning seems to have stood in his way ; he knew too much and his literary conscience was too acute for him to write easily, and his copiousness of information overloads his literary style.

According to the movie You Only Live Twice, she holds the rank of Second Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

According to a recent result by Bruhn, Diestel, Kriesell, Pendavingh and Wollan ( 2010 ), it solves the problem: Arriving at the same notion independently, they provided four different systems of axioms – in terms of independence, bases, circuits, closure and rank.

According to Malalas, Verina had to crown Basiliscus herself as the only person of imperial rank present within the capital.

According to social status, Koreans used to dress differently, making clothing an important mark of social rank.

According to the estimates of Jacques Necker in 1788, the capitation tax was so riddled in practice, that the privileged classes ( nobles and clergy and towns ) were largely exempt, while the lower classes were heavily crushed: the lowest peasant class, originally assessed to pay 3 livres, were now paying 24, the second lowest, assessed at 10 livres, were now paying 60 and the third-lowest assessed at 30 were paying 180.

According to one legend, the feud with Dunstan began on the day of Eadwig's consecration, when he failed to attend a meeting of nobles.

According to some scholars, Alfonso lacked the singleness of purpose required by a ruler who would devote himself to organization, and also the combination of firmness with temper needed for dealing with his nobles.

According to David Ussishkin, " here ministers, nobles and notables of the kingdom of Judah were buried.

According to the Paikuli inscription these nobles swore their total allegiance to him there and asked that he would take the throne.

According to the 18th century historian Chrysostomus Hanthaler, his grandson Duke Frederick II of Austria ( 1230 – 1246 ), nicknamed the " Quarrelsome " or the " Warlike ", the last of the Babenberg dynasty, designed a new coat of arms in red-white-red after his accession — an attempt to prevail against reluctant local nobles and to stress his autonomy towards Emperor Frederick II.

According to Boardman, when Robert became king in 1390 he was the victim of his father ’ s style of government characterised by Robert II ’ s creation of his sons, sons-in-law, and other major territorial nobles as powerful magnates to whom he delegated extensive authority — as a result Robert III ’ s brothers refused to act simply as liegemen to the king.

According to Ludwig von Wolzogen ( in an account dripping with sarcasm ), the commander was found a half-hour away on the road to Moscow, encamped with an entourage of young nobles and grandly pronouncing he would drive Napoleon off the next day.

According to Nidhi Eoseewong, a prominent Thai historian, writer, and political commentator, Taksin could be seen as the originator, new style of leader, promoting the ' decentralized ' kingdom and new generation of the nobles, of Chinese merchants-origin, his major helpers in the wars.

According to the Kebra Nagast, King Solomon had intended on sending one son of each of his nobles and one son of each temple priest with Menelik upon his return to his mother's kingdom.

According to legends, Árpád held the first " parliamentary " session with 40 other " nobles " on horseback before 900 AD.

According to Plutarch, at one point during the height of the civil strife, as respected Roman nobles were being led to execution from Sulla's villa, Cato, aged about 14, asked his tutor why no one had yet killed the dictator.

According to them, those three nobles were either Krum's generals with a major role in the government but without assuming the throne ; or regents to the infant Omurtag.

According to his biographer, Yusuf Husain, he grew to hate the " harlots and jesters " who were the Emperor's constant companions and greeted all great nobles of the realm with lewd gestures and offensive epithets.

According to the account by Tschudi, seeing the small strength of the confederate force, the nobles were concerned that if they sent the mercenaries in front, as would have been common practice, they might not see any action at all, as the mercenaries would finish the job on their own.

According to reforms of the late 1990s, some 500 hereditary nobles elect 92 Lords from among themselves to exercise voting rights in the House of Lords ; there are also some 600 Life Peers nominated by the Government and Opposition.

According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor.

According to recent historians, Stanisław took part in a plot of nobles, aimed to gain more powers or dethrone the king.

According to the mediaeval Tibetan scholar Taranatha who visited India, Chanakya helped Bindusara " to destroy the nobles and kings of the sixteen kingdoms and thus to become absolute master of the territory between the eastern and western oceans.

According to the mediaeval Tibetan scholar Taranatha who visited India, Chanakya helped Bindusara " to destroy the nobles and kings of the sixteen kingdoms and thus to become absolute master of the territory between the eastern and western oceans.

According to La Florida :, siglo XVI, descubrimiento y conquista, by María Antonia Sainz, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés was born to an ancient family of illustrious nobles in the old kingdom of Asturias.

According to the research of the Library of Congress, a faction of Croatian nobles offered the Croatian throne to King Ladislaus I of Hungary after the death of Zvonimir in an effort to assert legitimacy.

According to the Chronicle of 754, the Arabs took Toledo in 711 and executed many nobles still in the city on the pretense that they had assisted in the flight of Oppa, a son of Egica.

According to an English cleric of the late 10th century, society was composed of the three orders: those who fight, those who pray, and those who work ( the nobles, the clergy, and the peasants ).