According to the Rettig commission and the Valech Report, close to 3, 200 were executed or " disappeared ", and at least 29, 000 imprisoned and tortured.

According to the biblical history, one of the first acts of Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of Babylon, was to commission the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, a task which they are said to have completed c. 515.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

According to Michelangelo's account, Bramante and Raphael convinced the Pope to commission Michelangelo in a medium not familiar to the artist.

According to Vasari, Uccello ’ s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo.

According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Antonescu's dictatorial government of Romania is responsible for the murder in various forms ( including deportations to concentration camps and executions by the Romanian Army and Gendarmerie and the German Einsatzgruppen ), between 280, 000 to 380, 000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria.

According to the commission staff: " Their actions saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the U. S. Capitol or the White House from destruction.

According to the Cockpit transcript released later, it appeared Saeed may have been at the controls of the flight when it crashed, although the 9 / 11 commission asserts that Ziad Jarrah was the pilot.

According to the preface to the Code, " From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation.

According to published transcripts of Johnson's presidential phone conversations, some major officials were opposed to forming such a commission and several commission members took part only with extreme reluctance.

According to historian John M. Taylor: " Early in 1639 the General Court granted a commission to Ludlow to begin a plantation at Pequannocke.

According to one biographer, Dr. Osler was emotionally crushed by the loss ; he was particularly anguished by the fact that his influence had been used to procure a military commission for his son, who had mediocre eyesight.

According to Julian Symons, " Ellery ... occasionally lost his father, as his exploits took place more frequently in the small town of Wrightsville ... where his arrival as a house guest was likely to be the signal for the commission of one or more murders.

According to William Hutchinson a commission, had been issued in 1576 or 1577 to examine matters of complaint against him, but had proved ineffectual because the Earl of Huntingdon and Matthew Hutton sided with the dean against the third commissioner, Sandys.

In 1871, President Grant's appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, worked out an agreement with British representative Sir John Rose in Washington to create a commission consisting of six members from the British Empire and six members from the United States to resolve the Alabama claims, refinancing, and other international disputes between Canada and the United States by treaty. On March 8, 1871 the Treaty of Washington was signed at the State Department and the United States Senate ratified the treaty on May 24, 1871. According to the treaty, an international arbitration tribunal met in Geneva.

According to an interim report released on February 3, 2005 by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's commission ( see # Investigations below ), much of the food aid supplied under the programme " was unfit for human consumption ".

According to the testimony of his son Jeremy, taken around 1699 was received in audience by " his brother king ," Charles II and was given a " lac'd hat " and a commission " to kindly use and relieve such straggling Englishment as should chance to come that way.

According to 1945 and 1946 FCC documents, the three major factors which the commission considered in its decision to place FM in the 88 – 108 MHz band were sporadic E co-channel interference, F2 layer interference, and extent of coverage.

According to the commission, the laws also have been used by husbands and other male family members to punish their wives and female family members for reasons that have nothing to do with perceived sexual impropriety.

According to Munro, “ each intendant received from the king a commission of appointment setting forth his jurisdiction and powers .” These commissions varied but disclosed a broad line of uniformity.

According to the official count of the 1984 truth commission, between 1976 and 1979, 8, 353 Argentinians were killed or " disappeared ", and other 113 were killed or disappeared at the hands of the military regime between 1980 and 1983.

According to the official count of the 1984 truth commission, between 1976 and 1979, 8, 353 Argentinians were killed or " disappeared ", and other 113 were killed or disappeared at the hands of the military regime between 1980 and 1983.

According to the norms of its present statutes, which came into effect in 1990, the IOR is directed by a supervisory council and by an oversight commission of cardinals.

According to the SVP, the racism penalty and anti-racism commission should be abolished in the interest of freedom of speech.

* Christian perfection – According to Wesley's teaching, Christians could attain a state of practical perfection, meaning a lack of all voluntary sin by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, in this life.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia Abiathar was deposed from office when he was deserted by the Holy Spirit without which the Urim and Thummin could not be consulted.

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 Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

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 the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

According to John of Damascus, anyone who tries to destroy icons " is the enemy of Christ, the Holy Mother of God and the saints, and is the defender of the Devil and his demons.

According to canon law, Albert was too young to hold such a position and since he would not give up the archiepiscopal see of Magdeburg ( in order to terminate the accumulation of archdioceses, which was also prohibited by canon law ), the Hohenzollerns had to dispense ever greater briberies at the Holy See.

According to that opinion, hand-made non-shmurah matzot may be used on the eighth day of Passover outside of the Holy Land.

According to a Stockholm University study in 2011, these pilgrims visit the Holy Land to touch and see physical manifestations of their faith, confirm their beliefs in the holy context with collective excitation, and connect personally to the Holy Land.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was Alexander I who inserted the narration of the Last Supper ( the Qui pridie ) into the Catholic celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

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.

According to the Holy Quran there have been prophets at all times and in all countries.

According to a tradition that can be traced back at least to the 12th century, when it was recorded in the Codex Calixtinus, Saint James decided to return to Holy Land after preaching in Galicia.

According to Samaritan tradition, Mount Gerizim was the original Holy Place of the Israelites from the time that Joshua conquered Canaan and the tribes of Israel settled the land.

According to the laws of the feudal system of the Holy Roman Empire, the king had no claims on the vassals of the other princes, only on those living within his family's territory.

According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic cross and a letter of blessing officially recognizing Stephen as the Christian king of Hungary.

According to Hartwick's legend, during his coronation Stephen dedicated the crown to the Holy Virgin, thereby sealing a contract between God and the crown ( which is therefore considered a " holy " crown ).

According to a number of sources their activities included mock religious ceremonies and partaking in meals containing dishes like Holy Ghost Pie, Breast of Venus, and Devil's Loin, while drinking Hell-fire punch.

According to Sr Marie of St Peter, in her visions Jesus told her that He desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy.

According to Adam of Bremen, an 11th-century historian, Harald's son Sweyn was baptised Otto, in tribute to the German king Otto I, who was the first Holy Roman Emperor.

According to a Portuguese legend Władysław survived the Battle of Varna ( although the Turks claimed to have his head, his body in royal armor was never found ) and then journeyed in secrecy to the Holy Land.

According to the King James version of the Holy Bible, from within The book of Mark, Chapter ( 5 ), verses ( 25 ) through ( 33 ) by experiential definition.