According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to Glenn W. LaFantasie, Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University,

According to this new theory, the shorter Alexandrian text is closer to the original, and the longer Western text is the result of later insertion of additional material into the text.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to Fortescue, it was from Western Scholasticism that hesychasm's philosophical opponents in the East borrowed their weapons.

According to Kallistos Ware, some Western theologians, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, see the theology of Palamas as introducing an inadmissible division within God ; however, others have incorporated his theology into their own thinking, maintaining, as Jeffrey D. Finch reports, that there is no conflict between his teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to some, results of keno games in great cities were sent to outlying villages and hamlets by carrier pigeons, resulting in its Chinese name 白鸽票 báigē piào, literally “ white dove ticket ”, pronounced baak-gap-piu in Cantonese ( which the Western spelling ' pak-ah-pu ' / ' pakapoo ' was based on ).

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

According to Glinsky this was the Soviet's " decoy for capitalists " to obtain both Western profits from sales and technical knowledge.

According to Western Christian belief, matzah was the bread used by Jesus in the Last Supper as there he was celebrating Passover ; Communion wafers used by Roman Catholics ( as well as in some Protestant traditions ) for the Eucharist are flat.

" According to Carr, an important advantage was that " if Soviet Russia had eventually to fight Hitler, the Western Powers would already be involved.

According to Heidegger, the history of Western thought can be seen as the history of metaphysics.

According to an independent study by Ronald Beech of Game 6 of the NBA 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Kings, although the refs increased the Lakers ' chances of winning through foul calls during the game, there was no collusion to fix the game.

According to the Western news media the base is reportedly to help China project seapower well into the Pacific Ocean area, including challenging United States naval power.

According to Western sources, the ruler of Friesland was converted to Christianity by the Franks.

According to several Western historians, Stalinist agricultural policies were a key factor in causing the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933, which the Ukrainian government now calls the Holodomor, recognizing it as an act of genocide.

According to Roger Luckhurst, the origin of the concept of telepathy ( not telepathy itself ) in the Western civilization can be tracked to the late 19th century.

" According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of Western Kentucky University, " A good number of his fellow senators supported his view of the citizenship clause.

According to this study, Western African lions are more closely related to Asian lions than to South or East African lions.

According to Mackenzie's theory, the Persians ( or Proto-Persians ) occupied the province of Fars in the southwest ( proceeding from the assumption that the Achaemenids spoke Persian ), the Baluchis ( Proto-Baluchis ) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds ( Proto-Kurds ), in the wording of G. Windfuhr ( 1975: 459 ), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan.

According to most Western observers as well as followers of Deng Xiaoping, this led to almost an entire generation of inadequately educated individuals.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the orthodox Thomism of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the individual soul.

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to the 1991 census 28 % of houses in the borough were considered ' unfit ', chiefly those in Accrington and Church.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are

According to the History of the Cyprus Church, in 478 Barnabas appeared in a dream to the Archbishop of Constantia ( Salamis, Cyprus ) Anthemios and revealed to him the place of his sepulchre beneath a carob-tree.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church the body after resurrection is changed into a spiritual, imperishable body:

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such spiritual practices are, in and of themselves, inspired by promptings from the light of Christ or the Holy Spirit that are communications with an individual's divine essence or spirit that is linked directly to God through pre-existence as his offspring.

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

According to Church tradition, it was under Nero's persecution that Peter and Paul were each martyred in Rome.

According to the legend, King Abenner or Avenier in India persecuted the Christian Church in his realm, founded by the Apostle Thomas.

* According to the first theory the document was an effort to transform the existing missionary bishopric into a regular organization of the Catholic Church, that would cover all of Mieszko's state.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

According to the 1999 edition of Religion and Politics In America Unification Church followers were known " universally " by the term.

According to Bruce McConkie, a general authority of the LDS Church, " Mormonism is indistinguishable from Christianity.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

According to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the liturgical year begins at 4: 00 pm on the Saturday preceding the fourth Sunday prior to 25 December.

According to both rabbinic tradition and the tradition of the Orthodox Church, this is the same individual as the prophet.

According to Cornwell, " the text, together with the Anti-Modernist Oath, became the means by which the Holy See was to establish and sustain the new, unequal, and unprecedented power relationship that had arisen between the papacy and the Church.