According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2004 there were only 479, 000 telephone subscribers in the country of nearly 11 million people, with. 061 main lines per 1000 inhabitants.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

* According to the letter of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the correct name for this family should be Microcebidae, but the name Cheirogaleidae has been retained for stability.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, preparations that include more than five percent of crude coal tar are Group 1 carcinogen.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is US $ 708 trillion ( as of June 2011 ).

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

According to the International Monetary Fund, commercial banks in Eritrea — all government owned and operated — appear to be in compliance with prudent regulations.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the overall fiscal deficit in 2003 was 17 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP ).

According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2003 foreign reserves were just US $ 17. 2 million, sufficient to cover only two weeks of imports.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the Afghan economy grew 20 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2004, after expanding 30 % in the previous 12 months.

According the International Water Management Institute and UNEP, well-managed agroecosystems not only provide food, fibre and animal products, they also provide services such as flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, erosion control and habitats for plants, birds fish and other animals.

According to the International Franchise Association approximately 4 % of all businesses in the United States are franchisee-worked.

According to Vermont he found misconduct, and continued to find it, from Amsterdam to the International office.

According to a report by the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the most common tactic is the direct regulation of financial advisers — including hedge fund managers, which is primarily intended to protect investors against fraud.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the CIA World Factbook, in 2011 Italy was the eighth-largest economy in the world, the fourth-largest in Europe and the third-largest in the Eurozone in terms of nominal GDP, and the tenth-largest economy in the world and fifth-largest in Europe in terms of purchasing power parity ( PPP ) GDP.

According to this viewpoint, International English is a concept of English that minimises the aspects defined by either the colonial imperialism of Victorian Britain or the so-called " cultural imperialism " of the 20th century United States.

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to Transparency International, the government of Afghanistan is the third most-corrupt in the world.

According to Amnesty International, the aftermath of the war resulted in an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.

According to the Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the force was organized into one armored, one infantry, and one paratroop / commando brigade.

According to the NLGJA's web site, " The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association ( NLGJA ) is an organization of journalists, media professionals, educators and students who work within the news industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

According to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC ), the men were subjected to beatings and forensic examinations to " prove their homosexuality ".

" According to Jeffrey Escoffier of the Centre for Gay and Lesbian Studies of CUNY, sexual interest in male-to-female transsexuals first emerged in 1953, associated with the then famous transition of Christine Jorgensen.

According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

According to Gay Lib writer Toby Marotta, " their Gay political outlooks were not homophile but liberationist ".

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

According to Charles Kaiser ’ s The Gay Metropolis, there were already semi-public gay-themed gatherings by the mid-1930s in the United States ( such as the annual drag balls held during the Harlem Renaissance ).

According to The New York Times: " Gay wrote the work more as an anti-opera than an opera, one of its attractions to its 18th-century London public being its lampooning of the Italian opera style and the English public's fascination with it.

According to David Stein, the man who coined " Safe, Sane, and Consensual S / M " for New York ’ s Gay Male S / M Activists ( GMSMA ) SSC was only intended to be put forward as a minimum standard for ethically defensible S / M play, to establish a distinction between play between loving S / M partners and the public perception of sadomasochism which would be more accurately described as abusive behavior.

According to the US Embassy cables released by Wikileaks, Peter Tatchell informed the US Embassy about his injuries at the hands of neo-Nazis at the 2007 Moscow Gay Pride Parade.

According to the book Images in the Dark by Raymond Murray, Akerman refused to have her work ghettoized, and she denied the New York Gay Film Festival the right to screen Je tu il elle.

According to his children, Gay would make his children observe an extended Sabbath, which was every Saturday.

According to Gay's daughter Jeanne, Gay was someone who never " spared the rod, he was very, very strict " in reference to the saying " spare the rod, spoil the child ".

According to Jeanne Gay, her father never worked for no longer than three years.

According to Alberta in 1984, the couple hadn't shared the same bed in nearly ten years, with Gay and Alberta sleeping in separate bedrooms.

Based on " Engstrom's " Hegemony in Reality-Based TV Programming: The World According to A Wedding Story ( Media Report to Women ( 2003 ) 31 ( 1 ) 10 – 14 ) and " Hegemony and Counterhegemony in Bravo's Gay Weddings ( Popular Culture Review ( 2004 ) 15 ( 2 ) 34 – 35 ).

According to Barney Frank's book The Story of America's Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg, In the election of 1970, against Kevin White, White was the first mayor to declare the city had a race problem and that people did not want him to become governor and keep him as mayor.

According to Ryden, the “ Gay 90s ” is a thematic genre that pushes sentimentality and kitsch to its utmost limits.

According to the India Meteorological Department ( IMD ), Gay was the first typhoon since 1891 to form in the Gulf of Thailand and enter the Bay of Bengal.

According to Hilary Beckles, historian and principal of the University of the West Indies-Cave Hill Campus, Sir John Gay Alleyne was a popular leader among the planter elite and a great philanthropist.

According to the publications Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, it was the controversial lesbian outing of the main character ( played by Ellen DeGeneres ) in the sitcom Ellen in 1997 that paved the way for Patty's coming-out in this episode, as well as for many other gay characters on other television shows.

According to the publications Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, it was the controversial lesbian outing of the main character ( played by Ellen DeGeneres ) in the sitcom Ellen in 1997 that paved the way for Patty's coming-out in " There's Something About Marrying ", as well as for many other gay characters on other television shows.

According to George Chauncey's book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Legman was a homosexual and is credited with having invented the vibrating dildo when he was only twenty.

According to historian Peter Gay, the eighteenth-century French philosophes of the Enlightenment found Cicero's eclectic, Stoic-tinged paganism congenial: The ideal of humanitas was first brought to Rome by the philosophic circle around Scipio and further developed by Cicero.

According to one of its organisers " Our aim was to announce ourselves and let Birmingham know gay people were here: ‘ Here we are and here we ’ ll stay ’" Two or three further such events were organised by Birmingham Gay Liberation Front until the organisation declined in the mid 1970s.