According to the Talmud, extinction of the soul is reserved for a far much smaller group of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil.

According to John Gillespie, a former investment banker and co-author of a book critical of boards,: " Far too much of their time has been for check-the-box and cover-your-behind activities rather than real monitoring of executives and providing strategic advice on behalf of shareholders ".

" According to this definition, celibacy ( even short-term celibacy that is pursued for non-religious reasons ) is much more than not having sex.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to the myth, cattle are slow-moving, slow-witted and weak-legged, and can easily be pushed over without much force, both because they have a high center of gravity, and because they sleep standing.

According to Hailsham, a former chairman of the British Conservative Party, " Conservatism is not so much a philosophy as an attitude, a constant force, performing a timeless function in the development of a free society, and corresponding to a deep and permanent requirement of human nature itself.

According to chemistry historian Henry Leicester, the influential 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Reactions by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall led to the replacement of the term " affinity " by the term " free energy " in much of the English-speaking world.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to Suetonius, the people of Rome met the news of Domitian's death with indifference, but the army was much grieved, calling for his deification immediately after the assassination, and in several provinces rioting.

According to his memoir, the combined pressures of managing the production company as well as supervising its day-to-day operations had greatly worsened as it grew much larger, and he felt compelled to seek outlets to alleviate the stress.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to Moore's recounting, AIM impressed the UK which imported these ideas when establishing in 1969 The Open University, which initially relied on radio and television broadcasts for much of its delivery.

According to journalist Joshua Hammer, " as much as 40 % of the Egyptian economy " is controlled by the Egyptian military.

According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology.

According to Christianity Today, " The emerging movement is a protest against much of evangelicalism as currently practiced.

According to Nihonshoki, the king of the Korean Silla Kingdom grieved very much when Ingyō died.

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 academic Corey Robin: " Hayek admired Pinochet's Chile so much that he decided to hold a meeting of his Mont Pelerin Society in Viña del Mar, the seaside resort where the coup against Allende was planned.

According to Hawks, a new set was in need of quickly being built when the studios set designer was unavailable and Hawks volunteered to do the job himself, much to Fairbank's satisfaction.

According to Livy, Hannibal much later said that when he came upon his father and begged to go with him, Hamilcar agreed and demanded that he swear that as long as he lived he would never be a friend of Rome.

According to Adrian Fortescue, the Scholastic theory that God is pure actuality prevented Palamism from having much influence in the West.

According to the 2001 census, around 850, 000 people in Britain were born in Ireland and much of the working class has some Irish heritage.

" According to Bronwen Walter, professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, " the adoption of a hyphenated identity has been much more problematic for the second generation Irish in Britain.

According to Karl Marx, industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie ( those who own the means of production, the factories and the land ) and the much larger proletariat ( the working class who actually perform the labour necessary to extract something valuable from the means of production ).

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

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 Abdul, the man at the party argued with her, grabbed her by the arm and threw her against a wall ," Vernon said.

" According to his book " Cosmology and Human Destiny ", Mahmood argued that sunspots have influenced major human events, including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and World War II.

According to his account, shortly before the Battle of Hastings, Harold sent William an envoy who admitted that Edward had promised the throne to William but argued that this was overridden by his deathbed promise to Harold.

According to the Gemara, they demonstrated their wisdom by raising their case in a timely fashion, just as Moses was expounding the law of levirate marriage, or yibbum, and they argued for their inheritance by analogy to that law.

According to Holocaust writer Daniel Goldhagen's review of the book in The New Republic, most of the people working in these camps were not Jewish and Goldhagen argued Sack did his best to conceal this.

According to Albright's memoirs, she once argued with Colin Powell for the use of military force by asking, " What ’ s the point of you saving this superb military for, Colin, if we can't use it?

* Mark Twain ( himself a Deist ) argued against what he saw as the petty God many followed in a posthumously published book, The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood.

According to him, not only is God an alienating ideal, as Feuerbach had argued in The Essence of Christianity ( 1841 ), but so too are humanity itself, nationalism and all ideologies.

According to Barry Sapolski, it has been argued that through a process of classical conditioning slasher films have a desensitizing effect.

According to her close friend, Polina Zhemchuzhina, the marriage was strained, and the two argued frequently.

According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Magen David Adom was boycotted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which refused to grant the organization membership because " it was … argued that having an emblem used by only one country was contrary to the principles of universality.

According to Streeter's analysis, the non-Marcan matter in Luke has to be distinguished into at least two sources, Q and L. In a similar way he argued that Matthew used a peculiar source, which we may style M, as well as Q.

According to The Folio Society, " We can never know if this is exactly what Faulkner would have envisaged, but the result justifies his belief that coloured inks would allow readers to follow the strands of the novel more easily, without compromising the ‘ thought-transference ’ for which he argued so passionately.

According to Bishop Asser's Life of King Alfred Chippenham was, under Alfred's reign, a royal vill ; historians have also argued, from its proximity to the royal forests at Melksham and Barden, that it was probably a hunting lodge.

According to Grey Owl in The Men of the Last Frontier, trappers swarmed to the forests in higher numbers then ever before in 1930 because of the beaver ’ s scarcity, and he argued that the only way to save this animal was to remove all of the trappers from the forests.

According to Paldiel, when Boegner argued that the children would almost certainly die, Laval replied " not one child must remain in France ".

According to Volpe, Gheorghiu and Alagna argued with the staff and the director over production details and continually delayed signing the contract.

According to his own research, a vast majority of people in France spoke one of 33 dialects or patois and he argued that French had to be imposed on the population and all other dialects eradicated.

According to her longstanding " World's Greatest Miser " entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, she died of apoplexy when she argued with a maid about the virtues of skimmed milk.

According to W G Forrest, it was Cleomenes who argued for this change of position with Sparta's allies.

According to the Duc de Saint-Simon, who opposed the Alliance, the British Ambassador to Paris, the Earl of Stair, argued that the short-term advantage to both regimes of an alliance outweighed their traditional differences.

According to historian David Mayers, Kennan argued that Tito's perceived pro-Soviet position was in fact a ploy to " buttress Khrushchev's position within the Politburo against hardliners opposed to improving relations with the West and against China, which was pushing for a major Soviet – U. S. showdown.