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 Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the doctrine of Ahimsa does not say " Kill not " it says, " Love all ".

According to the doctrine of some Tibetan schools ( like Theravāda but for different reasons ), only the first of these is recognized.

According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus ' substitutionary death and resurrection.

According to the traditional doctrine ( Dicey ), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.

According to the committee, these Lectures were included in the compilation " in consequence of their embracing the important doctrine of salvation.

According to this doctrine, only God can judge an unjust king.

According to this doctrine, the gods of Olympus were not supernatural powers still actively intervening in the affairs of men, but great generals, statesmen and inventors of olden times commemorated after death in extraordinary ways.

According to U. S. Army doctrine, a machine gun is distinguished from an automatic rifle by how it is used: a machine gun is a crew-served weapon, while an automatic rifle is used by a single person.

According to Ann-Marie Gallagher, a professor of women's studies and long-time author of many books related to Wicca, " there is no moralistic doctrine or dogma other than the advice offered in the Wiccan Rede ...

According to Pelagian doctrine, because humans are sinners by choice, they are therefore criminals who need the atonement of Jesus Christ.

* According to Catholic doctrine, the Catholic Church is a visible identifiable body that is literally catholic, in the sense of universal (" for all people ").

According to military doctrine, to be successful an attacker generally requires a 3: 1 ratio of numerical superiority over the defender for foot soldiers ; in mountain warfare this ratio should be considerably higher as the terrain favours defence.

According to the doctrine of real presence, the substances of the body and the blood of Christ and of the bread and the wine were held to coexist together in the consecrated Host during the communion service.

According to the Estonian Security Police, Russian influence operations in Estonia form a complex system of financial, political, economic and espionage activities in Republic of Estonia for the purposes of influencing Estonia's political and economic decisions in ways considered favourable to Russian Federation and conducted under the doctrine of near abroad.

According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents-soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed ( a static universe similar to that of Epicureanism and steady state cosmological model ).

According to Malloch ( 1966 ), this doctrine of permissible " equivocation " did not originate with the Jesuits.

According to present doctrine, that of " treaty monism ", treaties are in the Dutch legal system in principle self-executing ; no special transformation is needed by implementing special law, as in countries with a " dualistic " system ( such as the United Kingdom ).

According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last living Apostle.

According to the President, his doctrine consisted of four " prongs ," three of them practical, and one idealistic.

According to French newspaper Le Monde, the Chinese military doctrine is to maintain a nuclear force allowing it to respond to a nuclear attack.

According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these " gods ", and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki ( creating the " divine right of kings " doctrine ).

According to the church, “ The standard doctrine of the church is monogamy, as it always has been, as indicated in The Book of Mormon ( Jacob chapter 2 ): “ Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife ; and concubines he shall have none.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to the May 2005 Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) Perchlorate Report, an EPA official has estimated about 10 million people may have been exposed to perchlorate through their drinking water.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to Eusebius, this turned what appeared to be a committed Christian into a man who feigned sympathy for the sect but who eventually exposed his true bloodthirsty pagan nature, only to be stopped by the virtuous Constantine.

According to this theory, adolescents choose media that is consistent with their interests, and thus adolescents who drink beer are more likely to watch football and be exposed to and influenced by beer commercials.

According to Plutarch, these books were recovered some four hundred years later ( in reality almost five hundred years, i. e. in 186 BC according to Livy ) at the occasion of a natural accident that exposed the tomb.

In an interview on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, Dr. McWhorter characterized AAVE as a " hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects ..." According to Dr. McWhorter, virtually all linguists who have carefully studied the origins of AAVE " agree that the West African connection is quite minor.

According to Jeanne Stellman of Columbia University, 4. 8 million people have been exposed to Agent Orange, with some 3 million of them suffering health problems related to the exposure.

According to Williams Belle, the philosophies and theories behind parkour are an integral aspect of the art, one that many non-practitioners have never been exposed to.

According to feminist historian Sarah McDougall, the origin of Christian European insistence on monogamy, and insistence on its enforcement, arose as a consequence of 16th century Islamic incursions into Central Europe and the advent of European colonialism within the Americas, Africa and Asia, which exposed European Christians to cultures that practised polygamy.

According to family legend, he had tried to kill his newborn son by leaving him exposed on a window-ledge during a snowstorm ; the story may not be true, but Bowles believed it was, and it encapsulates his relationship with his father.

According to Dr. Debra Laino in an article for Shave Magazine, some of the reasons women cheat at the workplace are because " women are disproportionately exposed to men in the workplace, and, as a direct consequence, many have more options and chances to cheat.

According to Sir John Edward Lloyd, the challenges of campaigning in Wales were exposed during the 20 year Norman invasion of Wales.

According to the State of Alaska, those elevated cancer rates have been shown to be comparable to the rates of other Alaskan and non-Alaskan arctic natives who were not exposed to a similar Air Force facility.

According to film scholar Gavin Lambert, Astor invented memorable bits of business in her last scene of that film, where Roberta's vindictive motives are exposed.

According to Robert Giroux, " The studios seemed to be fearful that if certain aspects of the case were exposed, it would exacerbate their problems.

According to Herodotus, Lasus also exposed Onomacritus's forgeries of the oracles of Musaeus.

According to historical literature from the Addis Ababa Mulu Wongel Church, Ethiopian devout Christians who didn ’ t approve of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church got exposed to the Evangelical movements occurring in Europe in the 16th and 17th century.

According to the differential susceptibility hypothesis by Belsky ( 1997b ; 1997a ; 2005 ) individuals vary in the degree they are affected by experiences or qualities of the environment they are exposed to.

According to various interviews, it was at this time he was exposed to Hard Rock and Heavy Metal in the form of Motorhead, Deep Purple, UFO, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and so on, followed by lesser-known NWOBHM artists such as Raven, Tank and Venom.

According to the Mitrokhin Archive, Vladimir Kuzichkin a KGB officer stationed in Tehran who had defected to the British in 1982 had exposed almost the entirety of the Tudeh leadership as Soviet agents.

According to ITSR, the restriction was imposed after the regulator had noted the Zig Zag Railway's systems for managing the safety of its operations had deteriorated to the point where passengers, visitors and workers may become exposed to unacceptable levels of risk.

According to Gill, editor Harold Ross originally balked at publishing the drawing because it depicted a naked woman with one exposed breast.

According to Livy, their heads were exposed on the speaker ’ s platform.