According to the U. S. State Department, " U. S. relations with Burkina Faso are good but subject to strains in the past because of the Compaoré government's past involvement in arms trading and other sanctions-breaking activity.

According to the Australian government's June 2006 publication of prison statistics, Aborigines make up 24 % of the overall prison population in Australia.

According to Newsinger, although Orwell " was always critical of the 1945 – 51 Labour government's moderation, his support for it began to pull him to the right politically.

According to Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, FARC-EP killed 429 members of the Colombian government's security forces between January and October 2011.

According to the government's Economic Planning Board, the population density will be 530 people per square kilometer by 2023, the year the population is expected to stabilize.

According to Puntland government documents, the Somaliland region's Riyale government in 2006 both financed and offered military assistance to Atom's men as part of a campaign to destabilize the autonomous territory via proxy agents and to distract attention away from the Somaliland government's own attempts at occupying the disputed Sool province.

According to the Libertarian Party's platform, " Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government's treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.

According to him, in the government's ensuing conflict with the Ethiopian Olympic Committee, who wanted him to compete, he didn't get sent to either event.

According to George Coedès, the weakening of Angkor's royal government by ongoing war and the erosion of the cult of the devaraja undermined the government's ability to engage in important public works, such as the construction and maintenance of the waterways essential for irrigation of the rice fields upon which Angkor's large population depended for its sustenance.

According to some, the " value " of the Social Security Trust Fund hinges on the federal government's ability to pay back the money that it has borrowed from Social Security.

According to the federal government's Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) in 2004, more than 1, 138 rights and protections are conferred to U. S. citizens upon marriage by the federal government ; areas affected include Social Security benefits, veterans ' benefits, health insurance, Medicaid, hospital visitation, estate taxes, retirement savings, pensions, family leave, and immigration law.

According to the government's version of events, Olson subsequently suffered severe paranoia and a nervous breakdown.

According to the Associated Press on June 2, 2009, the eve of the 20th Anniversary of the Chinese government's crack down, Chai Ling issued a statement calling for the release of political prisoners in China.

According to the Georgia government's website on Confederate History Month, they also participated in the manufacture of products for the war effort, built naval ships, and provided military assistance and relief efforts ..."

According to Parliament's Standing Orders, the Minister of Finance may veto any parliamentary bill which would have a significant impact on the government's budget plans.

According to a Jewish former member of the Ukrainian government's cabinet, Solomon Goldelman, Petliura was afraid to punish officers or soldiers engaged in crimes against Jews for fear of losing their support.

According to The Times, senior Labour MPs demanded that the whip be withdrawn from him as an example to the 49 Labour MPs who rebelled against the government's plans to detain terror suspects for 90 days.

According to the website TheyWorkForYou. com, McIsaac rarely rebels against the Government, with the bbc stating " she regards it almost as a duty to support the government's agenda ".

According to Soldatov, the Russian government's suppression of the discussion of the FSB involvement theory reflects paranoia rather than guilt on its part.

According to Sydney Morning Herald Political Editor Peter Hartcher, prior to the defeat of the Howard Government at the Australian Federal Election, 2007, Abbott had opposed the Government's centrepiece Workchoices industrial relations deregulation reform in Cabinet, on the basis that the legislation exceeded the government's mandate ; was harsh on workers ; and was politically dangerous to the government.

According to this relative definition, the US's working poverty rate was 11 % in the year 2000, nearly double the rate produced by the US government's absolute definition.

According to the LaRouche movement, Bostetter said the government's actions amounted to bad faith regardless of whether government agents and attorneys had intended this outcome.

According to the message of International Karma Kagyu Buddhist Organization published on www. karmapa-issue. org: " To underscore his willingness to be supportive, Shamar Rinpoche even provided the necessary help for Ugyen Trinlay Dorje to obtain Indian government's approval for his recent visit to the U. S., though at the same time maintaining the stance that Thrinlay Thaye Dorje is the traditional Karmapa.

Çandar notes that the Agos issue published on the day of the murder of Hrant Dink featured a Dink commentary on the Turkish government's handling of the Akdamar issue, which the late journalist characterized as " A real comedy ... A real tragedy ..." According to Dink,

According to the Historia Augusta, the Roman emperor Hadrian issued a decree banning circumcision in the empire,

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to the decree 900 this land had to be taken and redistributed for the agricultural purposes, mainly to the peasant communities and the natives.

According to Tolstoy, the significance of great individuals is imaginary ; as a matter of fact they are only history's slaves realizing the decree of Providence.

According to the Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, he obtained from the Emperor a decree which either abolished imperial confirmations altogether or made them obtainable from the Exarch of Ravenna.

According to the decree, restrictions were focused on the ' parasitic stratum ' of society, in the interest of the ' working population '.

According to the decree, " persons endangering German security " were to be arrested in a maximally discreet way: " under the cover of night and fog ".

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

According to this decree, Papal bulls could not be pronounced in Hungary without the consent of the king.

According to his memoirs, Haussmann's use of the title baron was based on his elevation to the Senate and to an 1857 decree of the emperor's that gave Senate members the title of baron ; his memoirs further stated that he joked that he might consider the title aqueduc, ( a pun on the French words for ' duke ' and ' aqueduct ') but that no such title existed.

According to the Book of Ezra chapter 2, Zerubbabel returned to Jerusalem in the first wave of liberated exiles under the decree of King Cyrus of Persia in 538 BCE.

According to the Bible, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great ( Ezra 1: 1-4, 2 Chron 36: 22-23 ), construction started at the original site of Solomon's Temple, which had remained a devastated heap during the approximately 70 years of captivity ( Dan.

According to the provisions of the decree, Megarian merchants are to be excluded from the market of Athens and the ports in its empire.

) According to the decree, the ratio between length and width of the flag is 3: 2, being divided horizontally into two bands of equal size.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in Ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice was formally banned during the consulship of Publius Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus in 97 BCE, although by this time it was so rare that the decree was largely symbolic.

According to John Paul II's decree on Escrivá's " cause of canonization ", which contains a condensed biography of Escrivá, " o this mission he gave himself totally.

According to Samuel L. French, author of Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna., "... the present Borough of Plymouth was erected by decree of Honorable John N. Conyngham, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, on the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1866, upon the recommendation of the Grand Jury ..."

According to Livy, " Popilius ... placed in hand the tablets on which was written the decree of the senate withdraw ... drew a circle round the king with the stick he was carrying and said, ' Before you step out of that circle give me a reply to lay before the senate.

According to the author of Jubilees, all proper customs that mankind should follow are determined by God's decree.

According to the royal decree published in 1987, the king and the queen consort will formally be addressed as " His Majesty and Her Majesty " ( Their Majesties, Spanish: Su Majestad, Su represents His or Her ) rather than the traditional " Catholic Majesty " ( Su Católica Majestad ).

According to Enrique Krauze, these different opinions may owe to the very different racial attitudes held by the British colonizers in the United States and the Spanish in Mexico, the much earlier, and nonviolent, abolition of slavery in Mexico ( 1810 through federal decree in Mexico versus 1865 through a civil war in the United States ) and the nonexistence in Mexico of what in the United States were known as the " Jim Crow laws.

According to the letter of the decree of 31 December 1930, patriarchs too were to be addressed with the title of ( Most Reverend ) Excellency, but in practice the Holy See continued to address them with the title of Beatitude, which was formally sanctioned for them with the motu proprio Cleri sanctitati of 2 June 1957.