According to the majority of sources ( see section Current views on Central Europe for some ) the region includes:

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to Hubbard, the majority of the people interested in the subject believed they could accomplish therapy alone.

According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali ( 297, 000 speakers ) or Afar ( 99, 200 speakers ) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively.

According to McBrien, the majority of the bishops were not so much interested in a formal definition of papal infallibility as they were in strengthening papal authority and, because of this, were willing to accept the agenda of the infallibilists.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

According to the majority viewpoint for most of the 20th century, Jesus ' teaching in John is largely irreconcilable with that found in the Synoptics, and scholars consider the Synoptics to be more accurate representations of the teaching of the historical Jesus.

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

According to Ann E. Killebrew, " Most scholars today accept that the majority of the conquest narratives in the book of Joshua are devoid of historical reality ".

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab ( in Pakistan ) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

According to the Neumark and Wascher, a large majority of the studies show negative effects for the minimum wage ; those showing positive effects are few, questionable, and disproportionately discussed.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

According to macrobiotic advocates, a majority of the world population in the past ate a diet based primarily on grains, vegetables, and other plants.

According to MPT's official statistics as of July 2010, the country had over 400, 000 Internet users ( 0. 8 % of the population ) with the vast majority of the users located in the two largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay.

According to the majority of modern historians, Thietmar made an error summarizing the chronicle of Widukind, placing the Gero raid there instead of the fighting that Mieszko conducted at that time against Wichmann the Younger.

According to the constitution, the King's declaration of a state of emergency must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the lower house of the Parliament.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

According to article 7 of the Constitution, if the presidency becomes vacant for any reason, or if the president becomes incapacitated, upon the request of the gouvernement, the Constitutional Council may rule, by a majority vote, that the presidency is to be temporarily assumed by the President of the Senate.

According to a 2011 survey by Rasmussen Reports, a majority of Americans support profiling as necessary " in today's society ".

According to the Nuremberg Trials, as well as many war crimes investigations and trials conducted since then, the SS was responsible for the vast majority of war crimes perpetrated under the Nazi regime.

According to this view, taxation in modern nation-states benefit the majority of the population and social development.

According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

According to this viewpoint, International English is a concept of English that minimises the aspects defined by either the colonial imperialism of Victorian Britain or the so-called " cultural imperialism " of the 20th century United States.

According to Spink, President Roosevelt wanted " a tough judge and a man sympathetic with his viewpoint in that important court "; Lowden and Landis were, like Roosevelt, on the progressive left of the Republican Party.

According to a DVD commentary for one episode, some number of viewers were offended by Moleman's appearance, and he was reused in order to annoy people of such a viewpoint.

According to this viewpoint, humanity placing its own desires ahead of the teachings of the Bible leads to rampant selfishness and behaviour viewed as sinful.

According to the majority viewpoint, Mark was the first gospel written.

According to them, male artists and the male viewpoint continued to dominate the visual art world.

According to this viewpoint, the community thus lacks spiritual lineage, which some Buddhists believe to be important.

According to many guidebooks, Lake Tai is best seen from the scenic viewpoint in Xihui Park ( 錫惠公園 ) in the west of Wuxi ( 無錫 ), from the top of Dragon Light Pagoda ( 龍光塔 Lóng Guāng Tǎ ), from which both Wuxi and Lake Tai are visible.

According to Sri Nisargadatta the purpose of spirituality is to know who you are, a viewpoint he expounded in the talks he gave at his humble flat in Khetwadi, Mumbai, where a mezzanine room was created for him to receive disciples and visitors.

According to DVD commentary by the film's directors, Papantonio was added to the film later on because they felt there wasn't any " tension " in it, and they wanted another viewpoint.

According to the orthodox viewpoint of Confucian society, love was not supposed to be a basis for marriage, as most marriages were arranged by the parents of the couples, but the happy ending of The Romance of the Western Chamber embodies the aspirations of people for more meaningful and happier lives.

According to this viewpoint instructors should see assessment as a continuous and interactive process that measures the achievement of the learner, the quality of the learning experience and courseware.

According to this viewpoint, the first 2-8-0 order by Lehigh dates to 1866 and predates the adoption of the type by other railways and coal and mountain freight haulers.

According to Kudish, it is clear from a popular viewpoint over Southwest Hunter near a trail junction a short distance east of the summit that there has been a great disturbance in the forest.

According to its editor, Charb, the magazine's editorial viewpoint reflects " all components of left wing pluralism, and even abstainers ".

According to this viewpoint, Communist leaders were forced to either shift large portions of their GDP to counter perceived " Star Wars " weapon systems or watch as their expensive nuclear stockpiles were rendered obsolete.