According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to Pissarro ’ s son, Lucien, his father painted regularly with Cézanne beginning in 1872.

According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, " The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.

According to William Loeffler, from The American Book of the Dog ( 1891 ), in the chapter on Dachshunds: " The origin of the Dachshund is in doubt, our best authorities disagreeing as to the beginning of the breed.

According to political philosopher Nikolas Kompridis, the pursuit of freedom in the modern era can be broadly divided into two motivating ideals: freedom as autonomy, or independence ; and freedom as the ability to cooperatively initiate a new beginning.

Since about the 3rd century CE, the Jewish calendar has used the Anno Mundi epoch ( Latin for “ in the year of the world ,” abbreviated AM or A. M .; Hebrew ), sometimes referred to as the “ Hebrew era .” According to Rabbinic reckoning, the beginning of " year 1 " is not Creation, but about one year before Creation, with the new moon of its first month ( Tishrei ) to be called molad tohu ( the mean new moon of chaos or nothing ).

According to the Torah, this is the first day of the seventh month of the calendar year, and marks the beginning of a ten day period leading up to Yom Kippur.

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Canon of the New Testament: " The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.

According to Joseph Anglade, a philologist and specialist of medieval literature who helped impose the then archaic term Occitan as the sole correct name, the word Lemosin was first used to designate the language at the beginning of the 13th century by Catalan troubadour Raimon Vidal de Besalú in his Razós de trobar

" According to Báñez, reforms and adjustments made by the Spanish Government are beginning to create a situation of economic growth, " creating jobs ", while measures are " rationalization and austerity " in public spending, will show growth employment in the coming months.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

According to Joel, the only time they ever directed Bridges " was when he would come over at the beginning of each scene and ask, ' Do you think the Dude burned one on the way over?

* According to Islamic belief, the archangel Gabriel first appears to Muhammad, reciting to him the first verses of surat Iqra ( al -` Alaq ), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur ' an ( approximate date ).

According to Robert Craft, Stravinsky remained a confirmed monarchist throughout his life and loathed the Bolsheviks from the very beginning.

According to the mission log maintained by Gene Kranz, the Apollo 13 re-entry blackout lasted around 6 minutes, beginning at 142: 39 and ending at 142: 45, and was 1 minute 27 seconds longer than had been predicted.

According to James Truslow Adams's Dictionary of American History, during the 170 days beginning May 27, 1933, there were 22, 565, 859 paid admissions ; during the 163 days beginning May 26, 1934, there were 16, 486, 377 ; a total of 39, 052, 236.

According to Strauss the beginning of philosophy involved the " discovery or invention of nature " and the " pre-philosophical equivalent of nature " was supplied by " such notions as ' custom ' or ' ways, which appear to be really universal in all times and places.

According to a near-contemporary, when beginning to plan a composition, he would lay out a large number of stock drawings of his on the floor, and begin to draw " rapidly ", borrowing figures from here and there.

According to Children and Television, Lesser's account of the development and early years of Sesame Street, there was little criticism of the show in the months following its premiere, but it increased at the end of its first season and beginning of the second season.

According to chroniclers such as Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity.

According to intuitionists ( anti-realists with respect to mathematical objects ), the truth of a mathematical statement consists in our ability to prove it.

According to platonists ( realists ), the truth of a statement consists in its correspondence to objective reality.

According to (), the first historical mention of the statement of this theorem appears in ().

According to his own statement, he was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.

According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.

According to Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, the purpose of modern Christology is to formulate the Christian belief that " God became man and that God-made-man is the individual Jesus Christ " in a manner that this statement can be understood consistently, without the confusions of past debates and mythologies.

According to the logical positivists, unless a statement could be verified by experience, or else was true or false by definition ( i. e. either tautological or contradictory ), then it was meaningless ( this is a summary statement of their verification principle ).

According to phenomenalism, to say that a normal observer is present is to make the hypothetical statement that were a doctor to inspect the observer, the observer would appear to the doctor to be normal.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).

According to Van Voorst, the statement " those that loved him at the first did not forsake him " has the characteristics of Josephus ' writing and points to the continuation of Christianity.

According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was blocking her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project.

According to the theorem, within every sufficiently powerful logical system ( such as Principia ), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, " The statement G cannot be proved.

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 the statement of European Ministers of Finance, the Eurogroup will closely monitor " the correction of economic imbalances.

According to Kant, knowledge about space is synthetic, in that statements about space are not simply true by virtue of the meaning of the words in the statement.

According to 9 / 11 Commission staff statement No. 17 there were several communications failures at the federal government level during and after the 9 / 11 attacks.

According to the redundancy theory of truth, asserting that a statement is true is completely equivalent to asserting the statement itself.

According to the theory, a statement like " There is a man to my left " is made meaningful by analyzing it into: " There is some x such that x is a man and x is to my left, and for any y, if y is a man and y is to my left, y is identical to x ".

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

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