According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to Moore, as long as that kind of leadership selection process remains in place, and concentrates power in the hands of the leader, as opposed to backbenchers, then coalition governments will be very difficult to form.

According to an Associated Press report, " a coalition of women's groups ," operating under the name " ERA Summit ," planned " to ask Congress to nullify 1982 deadline for ratification.

According to some historians, starting with the Somme, Britain began to gain influence in the coalition.

According to Sidney Tarrow, four elements are necessary to maintain a coalition:

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.

Under international law, according to Protocol 1 Additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Gurkhas serving as regular uniformed soldiers are not mercenaries, According to Cabinet Office official histories ( Official History of the Falkland Islands, Sir Lawrence Freedman ), Sir John Nott, as Secretary of State for Defence, expressed the British Government's concern that the Gurkhas could not be sent with the task force to recapture the Falkland Islands because it might upset the non-aligned members of the fragile coalition of support that the British had built in the United Nations.

According to gayaameen from the Darraji tribe of samarra, a few hours prior to the first bombing that occurred, ICDC troops ( Iraqi Civil Defence Corps ) accompanied by coalition troops, temporarily relieved the gayaameen of their duty.

According to the FD, Balkenende made an " expensive miscalculation " and the coalition was not able to cope with " accumulation of governmental screw ups, ego maniacal told-you-so attitude and political profiteering ".

According to Lubbers the prospective third Balkenende cabinet should be based on the coalition agreement of 2003 and the more recent Easter Accord.

According to an Iraqi prisoner of war and former mid-level intelligence officer, the population in southern Iraq considered the coalition radio broadcasts more truthful than state-owned media.

According to the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, the Front describes itself as " an international coalition fighting injustice ".

According to their website, " Founded in 1987 by an interfaith coalition of laity and clergy, the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies offers a variety of educational programs that highlight the distinctiveness of the Jewish and Christian traditions and confront the dangerous misunderstandings that have evolved in our two communities.

According to the report, there will also be similar attacks against coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to The Description of the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (《 中華人民共和國國徽圖案說明 》): These elements together were designed to symbolise the revolutionary struggles of the Chinese people since the May Fourth Movement, and the coalition of the proletariat which succeeded in founding the People's Republic of China.

According to the coalition, radical socialist bodies like the First International represented one of the other key threats to regional stability and dominance.

According to Chinese legend, the Miao who descended from the Jiuli tribe led by Chiyou ( Chinese: 蚩尤 pinyin: Chīyóu ) were defeated at the Battle of Zhuolu ( Chinese: 涿鹿 pinyin: Zhuōlù, a defunct prefecture on the border of present provinces of Hebei and Liaoning ) by the military coalition of Huang Di ( Chinese: 黃帝 pinyin: Huángdì ) and Yan Di, leaders of the Huaxia ( Chinese: 華夏 pinyin: Huáxià ) tribe as the two tribes struggled for supremacy of the Yellow River valley.

According to the modern historians, the numbers are clearly inflated ; the Punic army may not have been significantly larger than that of the Greek coalition.

According to Altikriti, MAB ‘ spoke to Stop the War and we said to them, we will join you ; however we will not become part of your coalition, we will be a separate and independent entity but we will work together with you on a national basis as part of the anti-war movement ’.

According to Matloff, “… the Second World War represented a fundamental shift in the international balance of power, for which a coalition strategy fashioned for victory provided no real or grand solutions ” ( 702 ).

According to Iraqi sources, fighters from the Islamic Army battled al-Qaeda gunmen around Samarra at least twice in October and November 2007, a possible indication that the cease-fire brokered earlier this year had collapsed ( however, coalition officials later issued a statement claiming that Iraqi Policemen and coalition troops, not Islamic Army fighters, had carried out the latter operation ).

According to Miroslav Kalousek, his negotiation with Jiří Paroubek was a part of a plan how to destroy the government coalition of ČSSD and ODS which seemed to be the most probable scenario.

According to a poll in February 2007, 67 % of Italian Catholics backed the draft bill proposed by the Prodi coalition, and 80 % of Italians said they supported the law.

According to the Pew Research Center study, Conservative Democrats are 15 % of registered voters in the U. S., voted for Kerry over Bush by a 65 %- 14 % margin in 2004, and were identified in past Pew Research Center studies as New Dealers rather than Conservative Democrats, making this group of voters the ideological heirs to FDR's New Deal coalition and the " Vital Center " ideology of the 1950s.

According to this pact, the Liberals would support the government in crucial votes in exchange for some influence over policy.

According to the pact, the parties did not compete against each another in any district.

According to official reports the deaths were a result of Franz Joseph's demand, that the couple end the relationship: the Crown Prince, as part of a suicide pact, first shot his mistress in the head and then himself.

According to Article VII, the pact was to last ten years.

According to a secret protocol attached to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939 ( revealed only after Germany's defeat in 1945 ), Northern and Eastern Europe were divided into Nazi and Soviet " spheres of influence ".

According to this secret pact, signed in London on 26 April 1915 by the Kingdom of Italy and Triple Entente, in case of victory at the end of World War I, Italy was to obtain several territorial gains including Northern Dalmatia and notably Zadar ( Zara ), Šibenik ( Sebenico ), and most of the Dalmatian islands ( except Krk and Rab ).

According to the pact, Italy was to leave the Triple Alliance and join the Entente Powers.

According to The Guardian, Beit Alfa sold water cannons to the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s in a " secret pact.

According to the pact, Italy was to leave the Triple Alliance and join Triple Entente, as already stated in a secret agreement signed in London, on 4 – 5 September 1914.

According to local legend, the thunderstorm was the result of a visit by the devil who had made a pact with a local card player and gambler called Jan Reynolds ( or Bobby Read, according to the tale recorded at the Tavistock Inn, Poundsgate ).

According to legend, Karapiro was the stronghold of the chief O-Te-Ihingarangi, and was where the Ngati Haua and their Tauranga allies made a defensive pact during the land wars of 1864.

According to the Ogaden, the pact gave their Sultan Ahmed Magan control of Jubaland at large.

According to this pact, Gandhi was asked to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement ( CDM ) and if he did so the prisoners of the British government would be freed excepting the criminal prisoners, i. e. those who had killed British officials.

According to traditional Christian belief in witchcraft, the pact is between a person and Satan or any other demon ( or demons ); the person offers his or her soul in exchange for diabolical favours.

According to demonology, there is a specific month, day of the week, and hour to call each demon, so the invocation for a pact has to be done at the right time.

According to Fadul, the PUSD had a disputed leadership and therefore could not legitimately participate in the pact.

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to the medical examiner, she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to the medical examiner she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.