According to Whipple ( 1955 ), cometary debris is sufficient to replenish the material spiraling into the sun, maintaining a fairly steady state.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

* Christian perfection – According to Wesley's teaching, Christians could attain a state of practical perfection, meaning a lack of all voluntary sin by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, in this life.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

According to Arkansas state and Federal law, a seriously mentally impaired inmate cannot be executed.

According to Article 91 of the constitution, the CDN is " the consultative body of the president of the republic in matters related to national sovereignty and the defense of the democratic state.

According to Article 89 of the constitution, the Council of the Republic has authority to make declarations of federal intervention, a state of emergency, and a state of siege ( all security-related issues ).

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

* Entropic forces: According to the second law of thermodynamics, a system progresses to a state in which entropy is maximized.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

According to Moyra Grant, in political philosophy " collectivism " refers to any philosophy or system that puts any kind of group ( such as a class, nation, race, society, state, etc.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to, the attackers retreated after realizing that they would have to become rebels against the state and against their own lord.

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

According to this formulation, the state exists for the benefit of citizens and has an obligation to respect and protect the rights of citizens, including civil rights and political rights.

According to the Han Shu 21a, 973, for the moment of unification the Middle kingdoms had 6 different calendars: those of the mythological progenitors Yellow Emperor ( 黄帝曆 ) and Zhuanxu ( 顓頊曆 ); of the dynasties Xia ( 夏曆 ), Yin ( 殷曆 ), and Zhou ( 周曆 ), and of the Zhou Dynasty state of Lu ( 鲁曆 ).

According to Cyril's theology, there were two states for the Son: the state that existed prior to the Son ( or Word / Logos ) becoming enfleshed in the person of Jesus and the state that actually became enfleshed.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

According to Hindu scriptures, Yama's divine assistant Lord Chitragupta maintains a record of the individual deeds of every living being in the world, and based on the complete audit of his deeds, dispatches the soul of the deceased either to Svarga ( Heaven ) or to the various Narakas according to the nature of their sins.

According to the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, a cost audit is " an examination of cost accounting records and verification of facts to ascertain that the cost of the product has been arrived at, in accordance with principles of cost accounting.

According to the results of a 1925 audit, some 1. 17 million pieces of art were stored in the Forbidden City.

According to the company, JD power ensures " CIGNA HealthCare ’ s call center operations successfully passed a detailed audit of its recruiting, training, employee incentives, quality assurance capabilities, and management roles and responsibilities.

" According to Judicial Watch, Clinton and top Congressional Democrats encouraged the IRS to audit them and say that an IRS agent asked them, " What do you expect when you sue the President?

According to Behringer, it had overlooked the differences in testing standards and procedures under FCC and European requirements and has since implemented a complete UL certified safety and EMC testing laboratory under the UL certified witness program, including an in-house audit and global regulatory review system.

According to any reasonable audit standards, one would conclude that the GISS software had failed this particular test.

According to the Times, the audit, " pointed to extensive violations of child-labor laws and state regulations requiring time for breaks and meals ," including 1, 371

According to the annual audit by DeGolyer and MacNaughton, as of 31 December 2006, Yuganskneftegaz ' two largest fields, Priobskoye and Prirazlomnoye, contained 33 % and 10. 7 % of Rosneft ’ s total proved reserves, respectively.

According to a lawsuit filed by President, the Missouri Gaming Commission was set to reject the application for " flimsy " reasons, including an IRS audit of Yung's 2000 income tax return and his use of a corporate credit card for personal expenses.

According to the KPMG audit of the Development Fund for Iraq expenditures, the board routinely failed to properly document its decisions.

According to the latest ABC audit figures published for March 2012, AMEinfo. com ’ s monthly unique browsers is now over 2. 4 million.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to the documentary W. C. Fields Straight Up, his death occurred in this way: he winked and smiled at a nurse, put a finger to his lips, and died.

The Straight Dope writes " According to the good folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was America's first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal, his registration taking place on September 4th, 1877.

According to Straight Arrow Press in the United States the " proceeds from the January 14, 2002 reissue of George Harrison's 1970 song My Sweet Lord will go to the Self-Realization Fellowship, a California organization that promotes the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda.

According to The Straight Dope, years later historian Herbert Parmet analyzed the text of Profiles in Courage and wrote in his book The Struggles of John F. Kennedy ( 1980 ) that although Kennedy did oversee the production and provided for the direction and message of the book, it was clearly Sorensen who provided most of the work that went into the end product.

According to Factory's co-founder Tony Wilson, " All our bands are free to fuck off whenever they please.

" According to Dave Bowler and Bryan Dray's biography of The Cure, the school also expelled ex-Malice co-founder Marc Ceccagno along with Smith, whose new band Amulet had also played the December school show.

According to Arsuzi, a co-founder of the Ba ' th Party, the reforms would, " liberate 75 percent of the Syrian population and prepare them to be citizens qualified to participate in the building of the state ".

According to Romero, he is a co-founder of Gazillion.

According to several sources including Macworld UK, the company name " Be " had its origin in a conversation between Gassée and Be co-founder Steve Sakoman.

According to Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle " It solved one of the fundamental problems we had with making an RTS, which was that we wanted to have a central resource that everybody was fighting over.

According to Washington's friend and Crips co-founder Greg " Batman " Davis, " People in the prisons was losing their loved ones on the streets and because Raymond was the founder of the Crips, they blamed him for it.

According to co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson, " Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually.

According to a 1960 promotional EP designed and distributed by Liberty Records for Liberty shareholders, David Seville ( of Chipmunks fame ), a composer / producer on Liberty, told Julie London that the term " exotica " was coined by Simon " Si " Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and, at the time, board chairman.

According to co-founder and former director Serge July, Libé was an activist newspaper that, however, does not support any particular political party, acts as a counter-power, and generally has bad relations with both left-wing and right-wing administrations.

According to the festival's co-founder, John Pinder, the idea of holding an international comedy festival originated in the early 1980s.

According to Fotolog co-founder Scott Heiferman, recent upgrades have made the site much faster and as of November 16, 2005, Fotolog was generating 750 million pageviews a month.

According to the Online Journalism Review, " BloggerCon has lots of cooks, but the chief chef is technologist Dave Winer, co-founder of RSS and the patient zero of blogging.

Skinn claimed to Khoury that “ bout ten years after that Miracleman # 24 letters page ,” he and Yronwode had a “ conversation via e-mail about that outrageous stuff .” According to Skinn, Yronwode informed him that “ Dean Eclipse Comics co-founder, had filled her head with those stories ” and apologized to him.

According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards — featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages — sold between 1973 and 1995.

According to co-founder Peter Maurin, the following are the beliefs of the Catholic Worker:

According to Susan Wickersham, co-founder and CEO: " the most successful artists can afford to pay for their instruments – but if we gave them endorsement deals the cost of those instruments would have to be recovered from customers who are far less able to afford it ".

According to former executive producer and Westwood co-founder Brett W. Sperry: " Command & Conquer was the net result of the Dune II wish list.

According to Westwood co-founder Louis Castle: " War was in the news and the threat of terrorism was on everyone's mind.

According to Stephen Hill, co-founder of a radio show called Hearts of Space, the term is used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness.

According to a UFC interview, the nickname was given to him by UFC co-founder and promoter Art Davie.

According to C + C Music Factory founder Robert Clivillés he and ( co-founder ) David Cole had asked him in 1994 to work on new C + C Music Factory material but he refused.

According to SofaWare's co-founder Adi Ruppin, " The Company's vision is to take this enterprise-strength technology and make it as simple to use and as affordable as possible without detracting from its quality.

According to Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades, the story for the sequel has already been written ; in fact a whole trilogy is being planned.