It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.

According to tradition, Rumi was himself a notable musician who played the robāb, although his favorite instrument was the ney or reed flute.

According to Sumner, " Get Ready was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time.

According to Phil Collins it is the most important instrument in Motown.

According to Rayleigh, the scale was used by physicists and acoustic instrument makers.

According to Jamshied, using both these techniques makes the instrument a “ wind-driven, fretless synthesizer ”.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.

According to legend, it was on such an instrument that the kazoo, invented in the 19th century by an African American named Alabama Vest in Macon, Georgia, United States, is based.

According to Menuck, joining the group was quite simple: " It was like if anyone knew anybody who played an instrument and seemed like an okay person, they would sort of join up.

According to Needham, the earliest development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers Shi Shen and Gan De in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring armillary instrument.

According to IAS 32 and 39, it is defined as " any contract that gives rise to a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity instrument of another entity ".

According to the Zhouli the original feng shui instrument may have been a gnomon.

According to musical instrument scholar Grant O ' Brien, the inverted wrestplank is " still to be found in pianos dating from a period 150 years after death.

According to Roerich's concept, the state, as an instrument for the preservation and development

According to the 1875 London Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities a Stilus is " an object tapering like an architectural column ; a metal instrument resembling a pencil in size and shape, used for writing or recording impressions upon waxed tablets.

According to the statutory instrument that authorised its construction, the road is officially classified as a ' special link road to connect the roundabout with the all-purpose road known as Tramway Lane '.

According to Liu Xi's Eastern Han Dynasty Dictionary of Names, the word pipa may have an onomatopoeic origin ( the word being similar to the sounds the instrument makes ) although modern scholarship suggests a possible derivation from the Persian word " barbat " ( the two theories however are not necessarily mutually exclusive ).

According to the Samguksagi ( 1145 ), a history of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, the gayageum is supposed to have been developed around the 6th century in the Gaya confederacy by King Gasil ( also known as Haji of Daegaya ) after he observed an old Chinese instrument, a guzheng.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the name of the instrument is a loan word from French baryton or Italian baritono, and ultimately derives from Greek bary-+ tonos ' deep-pitched '.

According to Richard Olson, U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Pakistan military's doctrine of " strategic depth " is a concept in which Pakistan uses Afghanistan as an instrument of strategic security in ongoing tensions with India by attempting to control Afghanistan as a pawn for its own political purposes.

According to Petteri Iivonen, who has played the instrument, the violin has a warm sound yet can endure even a rougher style of play.

According to the Samguk Sagi ( Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms ), written in 1145, the geomungo was invented by prime minister Wang San-ak by using the form of the ancient Chinese instrument guqin ( also called chilhyeongeum, literally " seven-string zither ").

) According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Tippin is an instrument rated commercial pilot with single and multi-engine ratings.

According to one principle of classification, an emergent coastline is a coastline which has experienced a fall in sea level, because of either a global sea level change, or local uplift.

According to a second principle of classification, a concordant coastline is a coastline where bands of different rock types run parallel to the shore.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to these new rules, " mineral species can be grouped in a number of different ways, on the basis of chemistry, crystal structure, occurrence, association, genetic history, or resource, for example, depending on the purpose to be served by the classification.

According to Weber's theses, social research cannot be fully inductive or descriptive, because understanding some phenomenon implies that the researcher must go beyond mere description and interpret it ; interpretation requires classification according to abstract " ideal ( pure ) types ".

According to the Köppen climate classification, it is dominant in the peninsula, with two varieties: Csa and Csb.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Venice has a Humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ), with cool winters and very warm summers.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Milan has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ); the Mediterranean Sea is too far to exert any influence, so Milan's climate is similar to much of northern Italy's inland plains, where sultry summers and cold, wet winters prevail.

According to the Honorable Lawrence Lewis of Colorado at a Tribute for Putnam in 1939, Putnam at this time “ modernized antiquated methods, revised the charging records of books on loan, inaugurated a new system of cataloging and classification, opened the alcoves to readers, insisted that ‘ there are two great problems of library management – one to get the books for the readers, the other to get the readers to the books .’”

According to the Köppen climate classification, Reggio Calabria possess a typical Mediterranean climate.

According to this classification, the Euarchonta are sister to the Glires ( lagomorphs and rodents ), and the two groups are combined into the clade Euarchontoglires.

According to a current classification system, Hebeloma now belongs to family Hymenogastraceae, and is considered more narrowly related to the closed Hymenogaster fungi than, for instance, to the ordinary mushrooms in genus Cortinarius.

According to Köppen climate classification, Conakry features a tropical monsoon climate.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Como has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ); winters are not long, but foggy, damp and chilly with occasional periods of frost from the siberian anticyclone ; spring and autumn are well marked and pleasant, while summer can be quite oppressive, hot and humid.

According to historian René Rémond's famous classification of the right-wings in France, this libérale tradition belongs to the Orleanist inheritance, while Gaullists inherited from Bonapartism and a tradition of state intervention issued from the National Council of Resistance ( CNR )' s welfare state program after the war.

According to the ICHD-2 classification, the main types of secondary headaches include those that are due to head or neck trauma such as whiplash injury, intracranial hematoma, post craniotomy or other head or neck injury.

According to the classification scheme of Zenkovich, the rivers on the east coast can be described as ‘ small ’; this classification is not related to their flow rate but to the insufficient amount of sediment that they transport to the coast to nourish it.

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Cape May has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) typical of New Jersey with warm summers and cold winters.

According to this classification there are three types of kibbutzim:

According to the Köppen classification, Austell has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and mild, but occasionally cold winters by the standards of the southern United States.

According to the climate zone, Kahului is in the Tropical wet and dry climate zone ( Köppen classification As ) with a dry summer season.

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Cape May has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) typical of New Jersey with warm summers and cool winters.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Marlboro Township is considered to be in the Cfa zone.