According to surveys, some of the most common fears are of ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations and public speaking.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

According to surveys, uranium is also found in large quantities in the Buurhakaba region.

According to several surveys from 2006 to 2008, Zurich was named the city with the best quality of life in the world as well as the wealthiest city in Europe.

According to the University of Pennsylvania rankings – a result of surveys from 1500 scholars and peer review evaluation – the Center for Economic and Social Development ( CESD ) is one of the top 25 think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe, including CIS.

According to surveys, it is common for people to feel their dreams are predicting subsequent life events.

According to surveys conducted internationally by the World Bank for their World Development Report 2011, by far the most common reason people suggest as a motive for joining gangs is unemployment.

According to the original surveys of Illinois, in the early 19th century, the Lusk's Ferry Road ran through the middle of what is now Royalton, heading on a diagonal line toward the southeast.

According to surveys conducted in 2006 by the Arts Council of Southern Oregon, the city sees a 30 – 50 % increase in sales and visitors during the event.

According to U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges index, " In guidebooks and surveys by U. S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and others, SU consistently ranks in the top 10 percent of public and private institutions nationwide.

According to population surveys conducted in British Mandate Palestine, Beisan consisted of 5, 080 Muslim Arabs out of a population of 5, 540 ( 92 % of the population ), with the remainder being listed as Christians.

According to polls / surveys conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( Canada's public broadcaster ), Tommy Douglas has been consistently voted as " The Most Important Canadian " for three years in a row.

According to the surveys of Phil Zuckerman on Adherents. com in 1993 ; there was 59 % ( over 700 million ) of the Chinese population was irreligious and 8 % – 14 % was atheist ( from over 100 to 180 million ) as of 2005.

According to several surveys, the augmentation of a prescribed SSRI with bupropion is the preferred strategy among clinicians when the patient does not respond to the SSRI.

According to surveys carried out by TNS Emor, the party has lost all its support ( 0 % in April and May 2012 ).

According to Ballard's underwater surveys in recent years the British guns achieved only four penetrations of Bismarcks armour, two through the upper armour belt on the starboard side from King George V and two on the port side from Rodney.

According to MDOT's surveys in 2009, the highest traffic counts were 12, 547 cars and 999 trucks along the freeway immediately south of I-94 near Jackson ; the lowest AADT was the 2601 cars and 384 trucks west of Union City.

According to recent surveys, 80 percent of Americans identify with a religious denomination and 36 percent state that they attend services nearly every week or more.

According to surveys the most prominent television presenter in the country is former alpine skiier Armin Assinger who is the host of the " Millionen-Show ", Austria's version of Who wants to be a millionaire.

According to IDC surveys, employees " often feel that IM gives their workdays the kind of ' flow ' that they feel when sitting directly among their colleagues, being able to ask questions of them, and getting the kind of quick responses that allow them to drive on to the next task.

According to the District surveys the areas of the two Provinces are, in square miles: Agra, 83, 198 ; Oudh, 23, 966 ; total, 107, 164.

According to the report, nationally representative surveys conducted by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in 2005 to 2007 found that 42 to 49 percent of HSA-eligible plan enrollees did not open HSAs in those years.

According to 1 Kings 12. c 26 – 30, Jeroboam surveys the pious rituals of the Israelites relative to sacrifices.

According to IANDS, surveys ( conducted in USA, Australia and Germany ) suggest that 4 to 15 % of the population have had NDEs.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to Bent Corydon, Hubbard created the illusion that Dianetics was the first psychotherapy to address traumatic experiences in their own time, but others had done so as standard procedure.

According to the famous Theses on Feuerbach ( 1845 ), philosophy had to stop " interpreting " the world in endless metaphysical debates, in order to start " changing " the world, as was being done by the rising workers ' movement observed by Engels in England ( Chartist movement ) and by Marx in France and Germany.

According to Carnot's principle, work can only be done when there is a temperature difference, and the work should be some function of the difference in temperature and the heat absorbed.

According to Ford ’ s The Modern Theologians, “ Mary Daly has done more than anyone to clarify the problems women have concerning the central core symbolism of Chrisianity, and its effects on their self-understanding and their relationship to God .”

According to Campbell's Model of The Determinants of Job Performance, job performance is a result of the interaction between declarative knowledge ( knowledge of facts or things ), procedural knowledge ( knowledge of what needs to be done and how to do it ), and motivation ( reflective of an employee's choices regarding whether to expend effort, the level of effort to expend, and whether to persist with the level of effort chosen ).

According to his son ( Johnny Jr ), Johnny ( senior ) was named Peter by his parents ; but, once he began to be successful as a swimmer, he formally used his brother's name, Johnny, because his brother John was, by birth, an American citizen ( and had official records that verified this fact ), and Peter was not ( this was done so that non-citizen Peter could represent USA in the Olympics ).

According to a congressional report, the jamming was caused primarily by a change in gunpowder which was done without adequate testing and reflected a decision for which the safety of soldiers was a secondary consideration.

According to it, it was the attack of the Margrave that forced the Christianization, which was to be an act of subordination to the Emperor, done without the mediation of the Pope.

According to the Sri Lankan Military these militias were formed after " massacres done by the LTTE " and in the early 1990s they were reformed as the Sri Lankan Home Guard.

According to the League of American Orchestras, this is done because the pitch of the oboe is secure and its penetrating sound makes it ideal for tuning purposes.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

According to David Hart, Comte had three main points: " firstly, that interference by the state over the centuries in property ownership has had dire consequences for justice as well as for economic productivity ; secondly, that property is legitimate when it emerges in such a way as not to harm anyone ; and thirdly, that historically some, but by no means all, property which has evolved has done so legitimately, with the implication that the present distribution of property is a complex mixture of legitimately and illegitimately held titles.

According to the National Whistleblower Center, Coburn's hold on S. 274 has been done to further President Bush's agenda.

" According to a survey done by The National Center for Health Statistics, " over half of marriages from 1990-1994 among women began as cohabitation.

According to research done by the University of Pennsylvania, there are a total of 12 think tanks in Azerbaijan.

According to Sani Meo, the publisher of This Week in Palestine, " Capital or no capital, Ramallah has done well and Palestine is proud of its achievements .” Some Palestinians allege that Ramallah's prosperity is part of an Israeli " conspiracy " to make Ramallah the capital of a Palestinian state, instead of Jerusalem.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

According to Arthur Croxton, the manager of London's Coliseum, the amputation was not apparent during her performances, which were done with the use of an artificial limb.

According to a study done by the Belarusian government in 2009, 72 % of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while Belarusian is used by only 11. 9 % of Belarusians.

According to the strip, scores of locals were done in yearly by the toxic fumes of the concentrated " skonk oil ", which was brewed and barreled daily by " Big Barnsmell " ( known as the lonely " inside man " at the Skonk Works ), by grinding dead skunks and worn shoes into a smoldering still, for some mysterious, never specified purpose.

According to Sting, " There will be no new album, no big new tour, once we're done with our reunion tour, that's it for the Police ".

According to Wullschlager, " he speed with which France collapsed astonished everyone: the French army, with British support, capitulated even more quickly than Poland had done " a year earlier, even though Poland had been attacked by both Germany and the Soviet Union.

Hamilton has since appeared on the television shows Frasier ( season 4 episode " Odd Man Out " as Laura ) and According to Jim and has done more TV movies, including On the Line, Robots Rising, Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples, Point Last Seen, and The Color of Courage.

According to a study done by Federico Formenti, University of Oxford, and Alberto Minetti, University of Milan, Finns were the first to develop ice skates some 5, 000 years ago from animal bones.