According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Genesis 25: 25, Isaac and Rebekah named the first son עשו, Esau (` Esav or ` Esaw, meaning " hairy " or " rough ", from, ` asah, " do " or " make "; or " completely developed ", from, ` assui ).

According to interviews he gave, the fact that some viewers overlooked Alf's views and regarded him as a rough diamond disappointed Speight.

According to Wallis, Henry died " from the after-effects of his heroic action in jumping into a rough sea off a battleship to save a sailor who had fallen overboard ".

According to a 1998 review in The Austin Chronicle, " Ross McElwee is a modern master of cinema vérité — rough, real-life documentary filmmaking that seeks to expose a subject's soul through its very lack of polish.

According to a rough estimate, 20 – 25 % of the Saint Thomas Christians live outside the state of Kerala.

According to The University of Glasgow Gould ’ s skill was in rapidly producing rough sketches from nature ( a majority of the sketches were drawn of newly killed specimens ) capturing the distinctiveness of each species.

According to rough estimates, war destruction reached the level of 43 per cent.

According to John Vaillant's book " The Golden Spruce ", what is believed might be Hadwin's broken kayak and effects were found on a remote island some time after he went missing in a rough sea.

According to the 2001 census in Hungary, the rough population of the Hungarian Bácska ( including districts of Bajai, Bácsalmási, and Jánoshalmai ) numbering 113, 432 people.

According to a rough outline for the series, apparently written between production of the pilot movie and first season, the original plans for the fate of Babylon 4 were quite different.

According to the Working Group on Statistics ( WGS ) of KPCS, in 2006, the KPCS monitored $ 35. 7 billion in rough diamond exports representing more than 480 million carats.

According to the USMC the craft can cross 70 % of the world's coastlines as opposed to about 15 % for conventional landing craft, though the craft has more difficulty in rough seas than a conventional ship.

According to The Sunday Times review, " The black backdrop of David Farley's rough hewn set and the stark minimalism of Rick Fisher's lighting suggest a self-conscious edginess, with Shannon's stylised make-up, long leather coat and brooding countenance only adding to the feeling ... Selina Cartmell and Cathal Synnott, the musical director, use the comparatively intimate scale of the Gate well.

According to editor John Dunning, screenwriter Christopher Fry looked at the miniature footage which Dunning had edited into a rough cut, and then wrote the interior and above-deck scenes.

According to Carey, writing " Can't Take That Away ( Mariah's Theme )" helped her get through rough emotional moments with her label's management, and even times when she felt overwhelmed by others.

According to Coppola, Puzo had composed a rough draft alternating between Vincent's reign as boss and the " Happy Years " of 1926 – 1939.

According to an early 20th-century history of literature, " In the novels of Susan Edmonstone Ferrier there is something of the rough sarcasm of Smollett, mingled with a strong didactic flavour and with occasional displays of sentiment that may be due to Mackenzie.

According to Steve Holroyd, in a professional career spanning twenty-five years, “ Gonsalves was also the consummate gentleman on the pitch: legend has it he was never cautioned or ejected from any match for rough play or ungentlemanly conduct .”

According to a chapter in his 1985 autobiography, Jerry Lewis in Person, he is still trying to clear the litigation so he can return to Sweden for some pick-up shots of the exteriors of buildings, edit the rough cut, create a score and title, and get it released.

According to one estimation, " Homeric Greek is probably closer to demotic than twelfth-century Middle English is to modern spoken English.

According to Otto Eckstein, estimation has found " textbook " values of multipliers are overstated.

According to the 2007 U. S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1, 380, 088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States, while the State Department mentions that around 3, 000, 000 Americans claim to be of Greek descent.

According to the 1999 estimation, Široki Brijeg had 29, 530 inabitants, of which:

According to Pálóczi's estimation originally 70-80, 000 Cumans settled in Hungary.

According to an estimation of the wildlife authorities, the bird population in the park counts to be over 210 species like barbets, bulbul, minivets orioles, wagtails, munias, mynas, waterfowls and blue kingfishers.

According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50, 000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books.

According to the 2002 estimation, the population of the municipality is at 15, 277 residents.

According to the estimation, the total number of Burgenland Croats is 50, 000.

According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

According to the Department of Defense, the " Order of Titus award is the only award presented by the Chief of Chaplains to recognize outstanding performance of ministry by chaplains and chaplain assistants.

According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum ( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ), written in the first century CE, the emperor Augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.

According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.

According to journalist John K. Cooley, the hostage situation presented an extremely difficult political situation for the Germans because the hostages were Jewish.

According to a report in the Skeptical Inquirer in 1997 no credible theory of psi has yet been presented.

According to Turner's narrative, he urged — and Hobart agreed — that before its final deposit in the museum, the stone should be presented to scholars at the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which Turner was a member.

According to Swedish historian and professor, Gunnar Richardson, this myth was first presented in Swedish textbooks and promoted by Swedish authors such as Alf Henrikson.

According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.

According to Theoretical Synthesis, " when a stimulus is presented short and clarity is uncertain that gives a vague stimulus, perception becomes a top-down approach.

According to the famous Islamic legal scholar Ibn Qayyim ( 1292 – 1350 ), non-Muslims had the right to engage in such religious practices even if it offended Muslims, under the conditions that such cases not be presented to Islamic Sharia courts and that these religious minorities believed that the practice in question is permissible according to their religion.

According to Bede, Æðelwealh, king of Sussex, had previously been baptised in Mercia at the suggestion of Wulfhere, who presented him with the Isle of Wight and the Meonwara.

According to a Scottish account, he presented himself to Anne, " with boots and all ," and, disarming her protests, gave her a kiss in the Scottish fashion.

According to political analysts, the list of ministers Karzai presented to the Parliament was " not encouraging ", but it reflected realpolitik.

According to the Zohar, Moses presented the case to God instead of deciding it himself out of modesty.

According to Appian, a slightly different version of events is presented.

According to labor historian Philip S. Foner, the Wobbly conception of industrial democracy is intentionally not presented in detail by IWW theorists ; in that sense, the details are left to the " future development of society ".

According to Schonfield's analysis, the events of the Passover, which are presented in all the Gospels, but inconsistently, are most accurately presented in the Gospel of John.

According to Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 speech, " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences ," and more recent findings, a great number of accusations, notably those presented at the Moscow show trials, were based on forced confessions, often obtained by torture, and on loose interpretations of Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code, which dealt with counter-revolutionary crimes.

According to Dion C. Smythe, Anna “ felt cheated ” because she “ should have inherited .” Indeed, according to Anna Komnene in the Alexiad, at her birth she was presented with “ a crown and imperial diadem .” Anna ’ s “ main aim ” in the depiction of events in the Alexiad, according to Vlada Stankovíc, was to “ stress her own right ” to the throne and “ precedence over her brother, John .”

According to Philodemus, who presented it as a little-known fact, Tyrtaeus was honoured above others because of his music, not just his verses, Pollux stated that he introduced Spartans to three choruses based on age ( boys, young and old men ) and some modern scholars in fact argue that he composed his elegies in units of five couplets each, alternating between exhortation and reflection, in a kind of responsion similar to Greek choral poetry.