According to Article 91 of the constitution, the CDN is " the consultative body of the president of the republic in matters related to national sovereignty and the defense of the democratic state.

According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.

According to an eight-state study, the insanity defense is used in less than 1 % of all court cases and, when used, has only a 26 % success rate.

" According to Carr, the " bastion " created by means of the Pact, " was and could only be, a line of defense against potential German attack.

According to law professor Douglas O. Linder, McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense "— which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government, such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ).

According to Buoniconti, the Dolphins ' priority on defense was to stop Larry Brown and force Kilmer to pass.

" According to David Halberstam's book, The Education of a Coach, Belichick was given a choice by the NFL to introduce either the offense or defense.

According to the EMP Commission Executive Report of 2004, " In general, it would not be an issue for critical infrastructure systems since they have existing protective measures for defense against occasional lightning strikes.

According to psychoanalytic theory, neuroses may be rooted in ego defense mechanisms, but the two concepts are not synonymous.

According to J. Michael Jaffe, author of Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls, " the Internet was originally established to expedite communication between governmental scientists and defense experts, and was not at all intended to be the popular ' interpersonal mass medium ' it has become ", yet new and revolutionary devices enabling the mass public to communicate online are constantly being developed and released.

According to two researchers, Nesse and Williams, diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism.

According to Peter Andreas, a border theorist, the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency.

According to the memoirs of Trần Văn Trà, the Viet Cong's top commander and PRG defense minister, he followed orders issued by the " Military Commission of the Party Central Committee " in Hanoi, which in turn implemented resolutions of the Politburo.

According to Josephus, Joab did not kill Abner out of revenge, because he had forgiven him for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had twice warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

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 Cornelius Nepos, in his defense Epaminondas merely requested that, if he be executed, the inscription regarding the verdict read: Epaminondas was punished by the Thebans with death, because he obliged them to overthrow the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, whom, before he was general, none of the Boeotians durst look upon in the field, and because he not only, by one battle, rescued Thebes from destruction, but also secured liberty for all Greece, and brought the power of both people to such a condition, that the Thebans attacked Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians were content if they could save their lives ; nor did he cease to prosecute the war, till, after settling Messene, he shut up Sparta with a close siege.

According to Asahara's defense team, a group of senior followers initiated the atrocities, keeping them a secret from Asahara.

According to legend, the Caliph had his tent surrounded with a bodyguard of slave-warriors who were chained together as a defense.

According to boxing historian Monte Cox, Young ought to have been declared winner based on " clean punching, defense and ring generalship " Some claimed that Young's performance should have earned him a rematch.

According to Herodotus, the Spartan general Pausanias led an allied Greek defense against Mardonius ' Persian forces.

According to the Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-sections by Dr. Curtis Saxton, and according to the film's visual dictionary, Itchy was involved in the Battle of Kashyyyk as a gunner aboard an Oevvaor jet catamaran in the defense of Kachirho during the Battle of Kashyyyk.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, many of Koch Industries ' contributions have gone toward achieving legislation on energy issues, defense appropriations and financial regulatory reform.

According to Lance Hill, “ Thomas was eager to work with CORE, but he had reservations about the nonviolent terms imposed by the young activists .” Thomas, who had military training, quickly emerged as the leader of this budding defense organization that would guard the Jonesboro community in the day with their guns concealed and carried their guns openly during the cover of night to discourage any Klan activity.

According to the defense lawyers of the two pilots, Schmidt and Umbach were told by their superiors to use " go pills " ( amphetamines ) on their missions, and blamed the incident on the drugs.

According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.

According to the Mevo Hatalmud many rulings were given about specific things that could have been taken out of context or where a ruling was revisited but the second ruling was not as popularly known.

* According to Nepali scholar Rishikesh Shaha, the ancient chronicles report that a sage ( muni ) named Ne became the protector ( pāla ) of this land and the founder of its first ruling dynasty.

According to the court's ruling in Gonzales v. UDV,, RFRA remains applicable to federal laws and so those laws must still have a " compelling interest ".

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Harold Harefoot ruled for four years and 16 weeks, by which calculation he would have begun ruling two weeks after the death of Cnut.

According to this account, Wallace, facing the political forces then ruling New Mexico, was unable to come through on his end of the bargain.

According to Human Rights Watch, Communist Party leaders and ruling elite were far from unified in their support for the crackdown ;.

According to Rahn, the history of this paradigm goes back to the collapse of the Han dynasty: " The pattern of ruling power keeping a watchful eye on sectarian groups, at times threatened by them, at times raising campaigns against them, began as early as the second century and continued throughout the dynastic period, through the Mao era and into the present.

According to Human Rights Watch, Communist Party leaders and ruling elite were far from unified in their support for the crackdown.

According to Israeli historian Tom Segev, Maariv asked for the opinion of the minister of religious affairs, Dr. Zerah Warhaftig, who did not refute the rabbinical ruling, but quoted from traditional Jewish sources according to which Jewish doctors had saved the lives of non-Jews on the Sabbath, although they were not required to do so.

According to the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Ballin ( 1892 ), changes to Senate rules could be achieved by a simple majority, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March.

According to some societies, all the affairs of life are supposed to be under the control of spirits, each ruling a certain " element " or even object, and themselves in subjection to a greater spirit.

According to Karl Marx in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and a subject class.

According to a meta analysis, the most useful findings for ruling in aortic stenosis in the clinical setting were slow rate of rise of the carotid pulse ( positive likelihood ratio ranged 2. 8 – 130 across studies ), mid to late peak intensity of the murmur ( positive likelihood ratio, 8. 0 – 101 ), and decreased intensity of the second heart sound ( positive likelihood ratio, 3. 1 – 50 ).

According to its own ruling, the Convention elected its president every fortnight.

According to the Arab geographer Yakut, in the mid-13th century there were two independent sultans ruling over parts of Pemba Island.

According to Marxist-Leninists, the state is a tool in the hands of the ruling class, which in a socialist society is the working class, so a socialist state is, according to Leninists, a state of the working class.

According to the records, after the Zhou dynasty conquered the Shang dynasty, one of the new ruling group's main problems was dealing with widespread inebriation with ethanol, associated with the Shang culture.

According to the ruling, the Dutch state is not obliged to tolerate such actions.

According to Marxism, this also made it possible for a class society to develop, because the surplus product could be used to nourish a ruling class, which did not participate in production.

According to the Periplus, the ruler of Aksum in the 1st century AD was Zoscales, who, besides ruling in Aksum also held under his sway two harbours on the Red Sea: Adulis ( near Massawa ) and Avalites ( Assab ).

According to Elijah, Fard taught that Yakub established a secret birth control policy among the ruling class on the island.

According to the judicial inquiry by Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) they could not find any substantive evidences ; the Supreme Court ruling stated that no statement even mentioned Advani's name and that evidence against him was limited to the mention of his name on a few loose sheets of paper.