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 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.

According to Nicolaus of Damascus, Octavius wished to join Caesar's staff for his campaign in Africa but gave way when his mother protested.

According to a report in the Cork Examiner, the Continuity IRA's first chief of staff was Dáithí Ó Conaill, who also served as the first chairman of RSF from 1986 to 1987.

According to Fitzgerald ( 1977 ) " Reinforcements arrived, and within fifteen minutes these ' vicious brutes ', who for some two hours had terrorized well-armed prison staff, and effectively controlled the prison, had surrendered and been locked up again ".

According to David Vine, " Today, at any given time, 3, 000 to 5, 000 U. S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island.

According to the final page of the 2007 Propædia, the staff are organised into ten departments:

According to the ideal of research-university, the university teaching staff is actively involved in the research of the institution.

According to the Bible, after crossing the Red Sea and leading the Israelites towards the desert, Moses was summoned by God to Mount Sinai, also referred to as Mount Horeb, the same place where Moses had first talked to the Burning Bush, tended the flocks of Jethro his father-in-law, and later produced water by striking the rock with his staff and directed the battle with the Amalekites.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

According to the report, the guidelines require that programs run by humanitarian groups " enhance and safeguard the national interest " and that international organizations coordinate with state agents and select their Burmese staff from government-prepared lists of individuals.

According to Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, it was Seán Mac Stiofáin, as chief of staff of the IRA, who invented the name.

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 staff report:

According to Max Boot's book War Made New ( 2006, pg 122 ), sometime between 1803 and 1809, the Prussian General Staff developed war games, with staff officers moving metal pieces around on a game table ( with blue pieces representing their forces and red pieces those of the enemy ), using dice rolls to indicate random chance and with a referee scoring the results.

According to museum professionals Hugh H. Genoways and Lynne M. Ireland, “ Administration of the organization requires skill in conflict management, interpersonal relations, budget management and monitoring, and staff supervision and evaluation.

According to Arab tradition, Petra is the spot where Moses ( Musa ) struck a rock with his staff and water came forth, and where Moses ' brother, Aaron ( Harun ), is buried, at Mount Hor, known today as Jabal Haroun or Mount Aaron.

According to it the staff is a fragment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was successively in the possession of Shem, of the three Patriarchs, and of Judah, just as in the Jewish legend.

According to the 16th to 18th century writings of Silver, Swetnam and Wylde, the quarterstaff is held with the back hand at the butt end of the staff and the other hand about a foot to a foot and a half ( 30 to 45 cm ) above it.

According to Chinese folklore, nunchaku are a variation of the two section staff.

According to Rep. Maxine Waters D-California, Mildred Aristide called her at her home at 6: 30 am to inform her " the coup d ' etat has been completed ", and Jean-Bertrand Aristide said the US Embassy in Haiti's chief of staff came to his house to say he would be killed " and a lot of Haitians would be killed " if he refused to resign immediately and said he " has to go now.

According to Enthoven and Smith, the basic ideas of PPBS were: " the attempt to put defense program issues into a broader context and to search for explicit measures of national need and adequacy "; " consideration of military needs and costs together "; " explicit consideration of alternatives at the top decision level "; " the active use of an analytical staff at the top policymaking levels "; " a plan combining both forces and costs which projected into the future the foreseeable implications of current decisions "; and " open and explicit analysis, that is, each analysis should be made available to all interested parties, so that they can examine the calculations, data, and assumptions and retrace the steps leading to the conclusions.

According to Ronald Suny: This western Georgian state was federated to Kartli-Iberia, and its kings ruled through skeptukhi ( royal governors ) who received a staff from the king.

According to Philippe Pétain's chief of staff, " Germany was not at the origin of the anti-Jewish legislation of Vichy.

According to writer-comedian Bob Odenkirk, Candy was reputedly the " most-burned potential host " of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only to be told ' no thanks ' by the SNL staff at the last minute.

According to the Inti legend, Manco Cápac and his siblings were sent up to the earth by the sun god and emerged from the cave of Pacaritambo carrying a golden staff, called tapac-yauri.