According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

According to Covenant theology God makes two basic covenants, or agreements, with humans.

According to Polybius there had been several trade agreements between Rome and Carthage, even a mutual alliance against king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

According to the agreements of the Yalta Conference, Lviv was integrated into the Ukrainian SSR, most of the Poles living in Lviv were transferred into Polish Recovered Territories and the city became the main centre of the western part of Soviet Ukraine, inhabited predominantly by Ukrainians with significant Russian minority.

According to another author, all international agreements are gentlemen's agreements because, short of war, they are all unenforceable.

According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers ; collect compensation for exploitation of recorded performances by its members, and provide protection against unauthorized use of those performances ; and preserve and expand work opportunities for its members.

According to a leaked transcript of the meeting, Bush was using foreign aid and trade agreements to put pressure on Security Council members to support US policy.

According to Article 101 ( 2 ) any such agreements are automatically void.

According to its website, the WRJO's mission is to consult and negotiate " with national and local governments to conclude agreements and ensure legislation concerning the restitution of property to the Jewish people ", to conduct " research on Jewish property in national and local archives and to establish a central data bank in which information on Jewish communal property will be recorded and assembled, and to allocate " funds for the preservation of Jewish cultural and educational projects in that country.

According to Maharishi Global Financing, agreements were made in 2004 with a farmers ' association in South America and with traditional leaders in Africa to start using the Raam for agricultural development projects.

According to the constitution, relations between Karakalpakstan and Uzbekistan are " regulated by treaties and agreements " and any disputes are " settled by way of reconciliation ".

According to the Treaty of Peace with Japan and the bilateral agreements, Japan agreed to pay around ¥ 1. 03 trillion.

According to Phayer, both Nogara and Pius XII were well aware that their covert purchase of Fondiara amounted a " betrayal of trust " of their agreements with the Allied powers.

According to Article 101 ( 2 ) any such agreements are automatically void.

According to Matko Meštrović, emeritus senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics of Zagreb, Croatia, LaRouche's economic policies, developed from originally Marxist beginnings, call for a program modeled on the economic-recovery program of the Franklin Roosevelt administration, including fixed exchange rates, capital controls, exchange controls, currency controls, and protectionist price and trade agreements among partner-nations.

According to Stephen Snelling in The Naval VCs, both sides had entered the operation with the intention of breaching the predetermined agreements.

According to Russia, the 2009 natural gas agreements " were signed on the basis of the necessary instructions from the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents "; it also urged Ukraine to ensure an impartial trial.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry the employees of the FSB, who are working at the Black Sea Fleet facilities, are staying on the Ukrainian territory " in line with bilateral agreements ".

According to the arrangement and authorization of the State Council, the office takes charge of relevant preparations for negotiations and agreements with what the PRC calls the " Taiwan authorities " ( i. e., the government of the Republic of China and its authorized government organizations ).

According to the agreements between the companies, Ukrtransnafta, PERN, SOCAR and GOGC will each own 24. 75 % of the shares, while Klaipedos Nafta will own 1 % of shares.

According to original subscription agreements on file at the Philosophical Research Society, editions were sold by subscription for $ 75 on a pre-publication basis, but " the price of this edition after delivery by the printer is understood to be One Hundred Dollars.

According the Tuvan constitution, Tuva was " an independent state in association with Russia " and could " declare war and sign international agreements of its own will ".

According to the military agreements the Prussian minister president Otto von Bismarck had forged with the South German states on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 / 71, the major states were responsible also for the defence of the smaller states.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

According to another estimate, the ratio between the country's Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) and the state's foreign debt has reached 46 percent.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to accounts, by the time he reached adulthood, his virtues exerted themselves, and his slowness was revealed to be a symptom of his energy, passion, prudence, and firmness.

According to Samuel Angus ( 1920 ) gnosis in these early sects was distinct from the secret teachings revealed to initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression akin to arcanum.

According to the traditional counting cited by Rashi, Isaac was 37 years old at the time of the Binding of Isaac, and news of Rebekah's birth reached Abraham immediately after that event.

According to Piskorski ( 1999 ) and Kempke ( 2001 ), Slavic immigration reached Farther Pomerania in the 7th century.

According to Standish, " Anyone who is acquainted with the facts and has any amount of logical reasoning can not avoid the conclusion that neither Cook, nor Peary, nor Byrd reached the North Pole ; and they all knew it.

According to these models, the number of collisions early in the Solar System's history was so great that most comets were destroyed before they reached the Oort cloud.

According to the data of the China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group, in 2004 China's manufacturers sold 7. 5 million electric bicycles nationwide, which was almost twice 2003 sales ; domestic sales reached 10 million in 2005, and 16 to 18 million in 2006.

According to the English text, an eligible candidate " has reached his thirty-fifth year of age ", whereas the Irish text has this as " ag a bhfuil cúig bliana tríochad slán " (" has completed his thirty-five years ").

According to latest 2010 statistics, Singapore ’ s resident total fertility rate ( TFR ) reached a level of 1. 1 in 2010.

* According to Homer, Idomeneus reached his house safe and sound.

According to the figures released by Turkey's statistics authority ( TurkStat ) the total number of motor vehicles in Turkey reached 15. 023 million as of November 2010.

According to the guidebook, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis had difficulty finding financial backers for the massive undertaking until he finally began talks with the Russians in the late 1960s and reached agreement with the Mosfilm organization.

According to United Nations estimates, world population reached six billion in late 1999, and continued to climb to 6. 8 billion in late 2009.

According to editor Jacob Hay, the book's final form was " reached with the approval of Mrs. Betty Grissom.

According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome ( or another city ) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.

According to one of the legends, Andrew reached the future location of Kiev and foretold the foundation of a great Christian city .< ref >

According to the Aeneid, the survivors from the fallen city of Troy banded together under Aeneas, underwent a series of adventures around the Mediterranean Sea, including a stop at newly founded Carthage under the rule of Queen Dido, and eventually reached the Italian coast.

According to Lerner, " he kept the boat from rocking, and Camelot might never have reached New York if it hadn't been for him.

According to a 2009 report, RKK Energia is considering methods to remove from the station some modules of the Russian Orbital Segment when the end of mission is reached for the ISS and use them as a basis for a new station, known as the Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex.