According to Lactantius, he came armed with plans to reconstitute the Tetrarchy, force Diocletian to step down, and fill the Imperial office with men compliant to his will.

According to the Nihonshoki and Gukanshō, Bidatsu had four empresses and 16 Imperial children ( 6 sons and 10 daughters ).

According to very scanty information from the Imperial archives, including sources such as Rikkokushi, and Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, Emperor Yōzei murdered one of his retainers, an action that caused massive scandal in the Heian court.

According to French law, the Foreign Legion was not to be used within Metropolitan France except in the case of a national invasion, and was consequently not a part of Napoleon III ’ s Imperial Army that capitulated at Sedan.

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India, " Gulab Singh contrived to hold himself aloof till the battle of Sobraon ( 1846 ), when he appeared as a useful mediator and the trusted advisor of Sir Henry Lawrence.

According to the Imperial Household Department, she was buried with at least three water pipes ; some of her collections can be seen in the Palace Museum.

According to the historian Muslim Ibn al-Athir, Imperial casualties numbered around 4, 000.

According to the Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys, Jane was of middling stature and very pale ; he also commented that she was not of much beauty.

According to various sources, three men all sighted Antarctica within days or months of each other: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy ; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy ; and Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut.

According to one Japanese journalist embedded with Imperial forces at the time, " The reason that the Army is advancing to Nanking quite rapidly is due to the tacit consent among the officers and men that they could loot and rape as they wish.

According to official Imperial Russian statistics the population of Nizhny Novgorod as of 14 January 1913 was 97, 000.

According to one story, Tatiana, accustomed to being addressed only by her name and patronymic, was so disconcerted when she was addressed as " Your Imperial Highness " by lady-in-waiting Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden when she was heading a committee meeting that she kicked the woman under the table and hissed " Are you crazy to speak to me like that?

According to the last Austrian Imperial census of 1910, the Duchy of Carinthia was composed of the following linguistic communities:

According to estimates by the San Diego Association of Governments, the median household income of Imperial Beach in 2010 was $ 49, 104 ( not adjusted for inflation ).

According to The Times the " Imperial Conference proposed that, as a result of the establishment of the Irish Free State, the title of the King should be changed to " George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

According to later remarks by the Imperial ambassadors the daily Council meetings were presided by Guildford, who allegedly also dined in state alone and had himself addressed in regal style.

According to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Imperial House Corrino is founded by Viceroy Faykan Butler, the grandson of Xavier Harkonnen and grandnephew of Serena Butler.

According to a just-so story, this gesture recreates a tale of Imperial obeisance and can be traced to the Qianlong Emperor, a Qing Dynasty emperor who used to travel incognito.

According to Wardrop, Armenian claims against Azerbaijan should not go beyond the administrative borders of the former Erivan Governorate ( which under prior Imperial Russian rule encompassed Nakhchivan ), while Azerbaijan was to be limited to the governorates of Baku and Elisabethpol.

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India the town was originally founded by Gujjars and renamed Khanpur by the Sansi Jats of Amritsar who settled there, but its old name has survived.

According to The Imperial Gazetteer of India, an outbreak of cholera occurred at the 1892 Mela at Haridwar leading to the rapid improvement of arrangements by the authorities and to the formation of Haridwar Improvement Society.

According to Rosenblum, in 1892, the Imperial Russian Secret Police arrested him for being a messenger for the Friends of Enlightenment revolutionary group.

According to Lockhart, the German Kaiser was expanding the war machine of Imperial Germany in 1909, and British intelligence had scant knowledge regarding the types of weapons being forged inside Germany's war plants.

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India ( 1908 ); the Kakar, historically the first tribe in Balochistan with ( 105, 444 ) persons, the Tareen historically are the second largest tribe in Baluchistan with 37, 906 persons ( though this likely includes the Durrani ), and the Pani ( 20, 682 ) and Shirani ( 7, 309 ).

According to the 2011 Universities Guide from The Guardian newspaper, the five top universities in the UK based on undergraduate students ' performance in public examinations while at high school ( as measured on the UCAS tariff scale ) were Cambridge ( 546 ), Oxford ( 530 ), Imperial College London ( 500 ), the London School of Economics ( 493 ) and Durham University ( 466 ).

According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

According to the Mitrokhin Archives, the Italian Communist Party lodged several complaints with the Soviet ambassador in Rome regarding Czechoslovak support of the Red Brigades, but the Soviets were either unwilling or unable to stop the StB.

According to information seen on a viewscreen in a late episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer later became the Federation ambassador to Andoria, a Federation Councillor, and President of the United Federation of Planets from 2184 to 2192.

According to a letter sent by Gelli to César de la Vega, a P2 member and Argentine ambassador to the UNESCO, Gelli commissioned P2 member Federico Carlos Barttfeld to be transferred from the consulate of Hamburg to the Argentine embassy in Rome.

According to the French ambassador, the marriage " was celebrated with a magnificence that it would be hard to surpass, by the side of which even the brilliant festivities that have preceded it are not to be mentioned.

According to Micronesia's U. N. deputy ambassador, the country has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to legend, Astraea will one day come back to Earth, bringing with her the return of the utopian Golden Age of which she was the ambassador.

According to various accounts-including the US ambassador to the UN-the Taliban used women and children from their own population as human shields against coalition forces in 2006, and 2007, and when the British attacked during August 2008.

According to the paper, after seven months Karzai and Zalmay Khalilzad, then the U. S. ambassador to Afghanistan, were ready to get rid of the company.

According to the memo, the offer was turned down by an " amazed and smiling " Russian ambassador who said Russia did not have any need for this.

According to Charles Duelfer, after the bombing the Iraqi ambassador to the UN told him, " If we had known that was all you would do, we would have ended the inspections long ago.

According to America's last ambassador to Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Government were ready to accept the VOPP, but unfortunately the Clinton Administration delayed in its support, thus missing a chance to get it launched.

According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke ( who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris ) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris ' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

According to De Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, he was Hell's ambassador to France.

According to Veloso, the Soviet ambassador once asked the President for an audience to convey the USSR's concern about Mozambique's apparent " sliding away " towards the West, to which Machel supposedly replied " Vai à merda!

According to the ambassador Moties at the end of The Mote in God's Eye, " Watchmakers given time to adapt can destroy any ship.

According to the Habsburg ambassador, his public image was extremely poor.

According to a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable in which the U. S. ambassador there described Afewerki as " unhinged ," " cruel and defiant ," Aferwerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for " three or four decades " or longer because they " polarize society.

According to the Wu ambassador Xue Xu, who visited Shu in 261 at the order of Sun Xiu, the status that Shu was in at this point was:

According to the FBI, Cali is the official Gambino " ambassador to the Sicilian Mafia " and a rising star in the crime family.

According to the English ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton the version of events as he presented it, also caused much anger at the VOC in Dutch government circles.

According to Bahru Zewde, Lorenzo came into conflict with the powerful Tsehafi Taezaz (" Minister of the Pen ") Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes, who had him appointed to the ceremonial President of the Chamber of Deputies ( 1943 – 1944 ), then ambassador to the Soviet Union ( November 1944 ) -- effectively exiled from the center of power, then a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference ( May 1946 ); after being in Sweden for only a month, he died in a hospital in Stockholm.

According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official, later revealed to be I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson ( the husband of Plame ) published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for " twisting " intelligence to justify war in Iraq.

According to the Israeli ambassador to Egypt at the time, Moshe Sasson, Begin feared that the Israeli settlers would return to their homes surreptitiously and a disastrous clash between them and the Egyptians might occur.