According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

According to early Muslim historians, towns that surrendered without resistance and made treaties with the Muslims gave the Muslims permission to take their churches and synagogues.

According to the preamble in The Law of treaties, treaties are a source of international law.

According to present doctrine, that of " treaty monism ", treaties are in the Dutch legal system in principle self-executing ; no special transformation is needed by implementing special law, as in countries with a " dualistic " system ( such as the United Kingdom ).

According to the peace treaties the provinces were to retain its old laws and privileges, and was initially administered as a dominion.

According to the EU treaties, membership of the European Union is open to " any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them " ( TEU Article 49 ).

According to the constitution, relations between Karakalpakstan and Uzbekistan are " regulated by treaties and agreements " and any disputes are " settled by way of reconciliation ".

According to the Romanian side, in the peace treaties of 1918 and 1920 ( after WWI ), the isle was considered part of Romania, and it was not mentioned in the 1947 border-changing treaty between Romania and the Soviet Union.

According to the articles of these treaties, the value of US $ was prescribed as 35 US dollars to one troy ounce of pure gold.

According to uniting treaties between SNK and ED this hasn't any formal chairman.

According to the Velasco Administration, the treaty, having been signed under Peruvian military occupation of Ecuadorian soil, was illegal and contrary to Panamerican treaties that outlawed any treaty signed under the threat of force.

According to MAI supporter Sergio Marchi, one of the main purposes of the agreement was to eliminate the " patchwork " of investment rules enshrined in the then-1300 + bilateral investment treaties.

According to these treaties, the Banat region was divided between Romania, Kingdom of SCS, and Hungary, while Bačka and Baranja were divided between the Kingdom of SCS and Hungary.

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

According to current gedoogbeleid the possession of a maximum amount of five grams cannabis for personal use is not prosecuted.

According to Robert Freitas of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a typical blood borne medical nanorobot would be between 0. 5-3 micrometres in size, because that is the maximum size possible due to capillary passage requirement.

According to Robert M. Gray of Stanford University, the first ideas leading to LPC started in 1966 when S. Saito and F. Itakura of NTT described an approach to automatic phoneme discrimination that involved the first maximum likelihood approach to speech coding.

According to the operators manual, the M110's typical rate of fire was 3 rounds per two minutes when operated at maximum speed, and 1 round per 2 minutes with sustained fire.

According to National Weather Service records, average January temperatures in Vacaville are a maximum of and a minimum of.

According to Ziemba and Ziemba ( 2007 ), Keynes risk-taking reached ' cowboy ' proportions, i. e. 80 % of the maximum rationally justifiable levels ( of the so called Kelly criterion ), with overall return volatility approximately three times higher than the stock market index benchmark.

According to show creator Matt Groening, Phil Hartman was cast in the role due to his ability to pull " the maximum amount of humor " out of any line he was given.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification, the city has an altitude tropical climate with dry winter, with minimum average temperatures of 15, 3 ° C and maximum of 27, 0 ° C.

According to the official figures, as compiled by the 1979 Kemeny Commission from Metropolitan Edison and NRC data, a maximum of 480 petabecquerels ( 13 million curies ) of radioactive noble gases ( primarily xenon ) were released by the event.

According to the NOAA's National Weather Service, Wink is often one of the hottest locations in the United States for daily maximum shade temperatures.

According to early estimates, at its maximum extent, the city covered approximately 6. 5 square kilometers, and had between 15, 000 – 30, 000 inhabitants.

According to All Kerala Kuri Foreman's Association, Kerala have around 5, 000 chit companies, with Thrissur District accounting for the maximum of 3, 000.

According to The Eurovision Song Contest-The Official History by John Kennedy O ' Connor, the winning song scored the highest score ever achieved in Eurovision under any voting format, recording 129 points out of a possible 160 ; scoring just under 81 % of the possible maximum, but partly due to a scoring system which guaranteed all countries at least two points from each other country.

According to Dr. Denis Burkitt, " Hiatus hernia has its maximum prevalence in economically developed communities in North America and Western Europe ...

According to the principle of subsidiarity, everything that need not be regulated within the general framework should be left to decide for subordinate groups and, in turn, to individuals so as to guarantee them a maximum amount of freedom.

According to the proposal, the maximum sentence would be lowered from four years to 18 months ; re-education centers would be renamed " correction centers " and have their fences and gates removed.

According to the organizational configurations model of Mintzberg each organization can consist of a maximum of six basic parts:

According to the West Midlands Public Health Observatory ( UK ), an adequate level of warmth for older people is in the living room and in other occupied rooms, although most people ( at least in the UK ) will find this quite warm ; is stated as the maximum comfortable room temperature.

According to the Tassé report: " The Tripartite Agreement does not directly set a maximum number of flights or passengers at the Island Airport ; it does, however, establish noise exposure parameters which are not to be exceeded ( NEF 25 ), thus effectively providing restrictions on the number of flights.

According to Betancourt, the spike in taxes was just as effective as nationalizing, " Tax income was increased from then to such a degree that nationalization was unnecessary to obtain maximum economic benefits for the people of the country ".

According to Angel's business practise, Angel had two flights on each route, one in the morning and one in the evening, for maximum efficiency.

According to Vizing's theorem, the chromatic index of any graph ( the minimum number of colors needed to color its edges so that no two adjacent edges have the same color ) is either the maximum degree of any vertex of the graph or one plus the maximum degree.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

According to many scholars it only comprises a small number of monosyllabic lexical roots, including the personal pronouns and a few other deictic and auxiliary items.

According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to a number of scholars, the Christ story contains mythical themes such as descent to the underworld, the heroic monomyth, and the " dying god " ( see section below on " mythical themes and types ").

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to the Scientology journal The Auditor, the total number of " Clears " as of May 2006 stands at 50, 311.

According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, " The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.

According to Suetonius, a number of omens had foretold Domitian's death.

According to Belloc, the distributive state ( the state which has implemented distributism ) contains " an agglomeration of families of varying wealth, but by far the greater number of owners of the means of production.

According to hedonistic utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

According to Technorati, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35. 3 million blogs. This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential, since blogs are a recent innovation.

According to reputable license plate collectors, a number of " Johnston Atoll license plates " were created as souvenirs, and have even been sold on-line to collectors, but they were not officially issued.