According to Jean Favier, Bouvines is " one of the decisive battles of history and symbolic of France ".

According to Harper, the motion was of a symbolic political nature, representing no constitutional change, no recognition of Quebec sovereignty, and no legal change in its political relations within the federation.

According to Swedenborgianism, the first twelve chapters of Genesis are a symbolic retelling of ancient truths.

According to Benetton “ These are symbolic images of reconciliation — with a touch of ironic hope and constructive provocation — to stimulate reflection on how politics, faith and ideas, even when they are divergent and mutually opposed, must still lead to dialogue and mediation ”.

According to this view the psychological ‘ I ’ is a narrative fiction, something created only from intake of symbolic data and its own ability to create stories about itself from that data.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in Ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice was formally banned during the consulship of Publius Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus in 97 BCE, although by this time it was so rare that the decree was largely symbolic.

According to American artist George Caleb Bingham, himself a resident of Kansas City at the time, one could see the " dense columns of smoke arising in every direction ", symbolic of what he termed " a ruthless military despotism which spared neither age, sex, character, nor condition ".

According to Dick Hebdige, members of a subculture often signal their membership through a distinctive and symbolic use of style, which includes fashions, mannerisms, and argot.

According to the logic of the eternal return, the site of each such symbolic Center will actually be the Center of the World:

According to a written statement from the Macheteros, the action was a symbolic protest against the " greed-infested men and mechanisms which strain our elected officials, government agencies, and social aspirations in this country, as well as in Puerto Rico.

According to the BBC series Walking With Cavemen, Homo ergaster was probably the first hominid to use " what we would recognise as a human voice ," though its symbolic cognition was probably somewhat limited compared to modern humans.

According to this view, the sequence and duration of the creation " days " is representative or symbolic of the sequence and duration of events that scientists theorize to have happened.

According to Ahmad, the promised Mahdi was a symbolic reference to a spiritual leader and not a military leader in the person of Jesus Christ as is believed by many Muslims.

According to him, this prophecy was fulfilled with his advent in Qadian, a town situated to the east of Damascus, and the significance of the minaret symbolic.

According to Jacques Henry, chairman of CODOFIL, much progress has been made for francophones and that the future of French in Louisiana is not merely a symbolic one.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, " the work of many symbolic interactionists is largely compatible with the anarchist vision, since it harbours a view of society as spontaneous order.

According to the constitution of Dagbon, the candidature of Gbon Lana Alhassan and Karaga Naa Ziblim was symbolic in nature.

According to Hungarian legends, the Hungarians purchased the country from Svatopluk in a symbolic act of exchange: they sent a white horse with saddler to Svatopluk in return for some earth, water and grass, supposed to represent his country itself.

According to Kristeva, since the abject is situated outside the symbolic order, being forced to face it is an inherently traumatic experience, as with the repulsion presented by confrontation with filth, waste, or a corpse-an object which is violently cast out of the cultural world, having once been a subject.

According to both the Cuban embassy in Germany and the German Foreign Office, the renaming was a " symbolic act "-the island was never transferred to East Germany and remains part of Cuba.

According to traditional teachings of Judaism in the Talmud, they were made of blue sapphire stone as a symbolic reminder of the sky, the heavens, and ultimately of God's throne.

According to biblical scholars, this ritual is primarily an example of sympathetic magic, with the running water and living bird being symbolic representations of ritual impurity going away ; killing animals over running water was a widespread ancient custom.

" According to this view, Peter has a weak symbolic primacy or primacy of honor ( in the sense of a purely honorary primacy ).

According to the group's press release, McGovern served symbolic " war crimes indictments " on the Bush White House from a " people's tribunal.

According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons.

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 the Toba catastrophe theory to which some anthropologists and archeologists subscribe, the supereruption of Lake Toba on Sumatra island in Indonesia roughly 70, 000 years ago had global consequences, killing most humans then alive and creating a population bottleneck that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing likely consisted of fur, leather, leaves, or grass that were draped, wrapped, or tied around the body.

According to the interpretations of anthropologists, Silla is one of the oldest Inuit deities, but was recently ( in the last thousand years ) supplanted by Sedna, ( the goddess of sea mammals ) and the Caribou Mother ( the goddess of caribou ) when these became the major food sources of the Inuit.

According to Kirk, " such extravagances, together with a marked repetitiousness, have made Eliade unpopular with many anthropologists and sociologists ".

According to many theories that have gained wide acceptance among anthropologists, culture exhibits the way that humans interpret their biology and their environment.

According to David H. Price, in a chapter entitled “ Hoover ’ s Informer ”, devoted to Murdock during McCarthyism, Murdock had secretly informed on AAA colleagues to J. Edgar Hoover, even though he later served as chair of the American Anthropological Association ’ s ( AAA ’ s ) Committee on Scientific Freedom, established to defend anthropologists from unfair attacks.

According to anthropologists dispatched by the European Union, racism is entrenched in Cuba.

According to some anthropologists, Santa Marina, a saint revered in the Basque Country, is in actuality a Christianized version of Mari.

According to anthropologists, the Karamojong are part of a group that migrated from present-day Ethiopia around 1600 A. D. and split into two branches, with one branch moving to present day Kenya to form the Kalenjin group and Maasai cluster.

According to photographer Van Stipriaan and some western anthropologists, the various West African religions came to resemble one another during the 20th century, especially in urban areas.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995 – 96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran.

According to Carl Mitcham, " the Christian mythology of progress toward transcendent salvation " created the conditions for modern ideas of scientific and technological progress.

According to a survey conducted by The Scientist magazine, Dal was named the best non-commercial scientific institute in which to work in Canada.

According to Strauss, historicism " rejects political philosophy " and is rooted in the belief that " all human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.

According to Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, " everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author ".

According to the Committee, when systems fail to do so they risk infringing upon the human right to food and health, and to cultural participation and scientific benefits.

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

According to Tylor, human thought evolves through various stages, starting with mythological ideas and gradually progressing to scientific ideas.

According to a recent scientific survey, there are dozens of ancient olive trees throughout Israel and Palestine, 1, 600 – 2, 000 years old.

According to some parapsychologists, controversy stems from the apparent elusiveness and unpredictability of parapsychological phenomena and their incompatibility with the established scientific laws.

According to Kuhn, " A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share.

According to Sears ( p. 12 ) scientific investigation ( Walker & Leakey 1993 ) of the Nariokotome Skeleton provided further evidence for the Carrier theory.

According to a 1996 statement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, although heredity influences behavior in individuals, it does not affect the ability of a population to function in any social setting, all peoples " possess equal biological ability to assimilate any human culture " and " racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations.

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

According to traditional accounts, the scientific revolution began in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance era and continued through the late 18th century, the later period known as The Enlightenment.

According to Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, about 1728.

According to psychologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis ' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian zombies is viewed as overly credulous.

According to recent scientific studies, low levels of catalase may play a role in the graying process of human hair.

According to scientific studies, natural human skin colour diversity within populations is highest in Sub-Saharan African populations, with skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46 ( med.

According to Comte, a true social science should stress for empirical facts, as well as induce general scientific laws from the relationship among these facts.

According to current scientific theory, the cosmos began 13. 7 billion years ago short scale in the Big Bang.

Skeptics question whether SCI is actually scientific According to proponents, practicing the TM technique can lead to higher levels of consciousness and supernormal effects, including the Maharishi Effect.

According to the editors of these popular science magazines, the publications were designed to serve as “ organs of science ,” in essence, a means of connecting the public to the scientific world.