According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to the latter usage, in 1978 the CPC Central Committee denounced as " ultra-left " the line of Mao Zedong from 1956 until his death in 1976.

According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, actor Denzel Washington also confronted Tarantino on his usage of racial slurs in his pictures, but mentioned that Tarantino was a " fine artist.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and general colloquial usage of the term, brandy may also be made from pomace and from fermented fruit other than grapes.

According to Niedzielski and Preston, many of their subjects believe that there is one " correct " pattern of grammar and vocabulary that underlies Standard English, and that individual usage derives from this external system.

According to John Algeo in Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991, the first recorded usage of " Terror bombing " in a United States publication was in a Reader's Digest article dated June 1941, a finding confirmed by the Oxford English Dictionary.

According to its abstract, it specifies the usage of interindustry commands and data objects related to personal verification through biometric methods in integrated circuit cards.

According to Riquier, every vocation deserved a name of its own and the sloppy usage of joglar assured that it covered a multitude of activities, some, no doubt, with which Riquier did not wish to be associated.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, telephone service for the period 2000-2004, stated Barbados had 124 telephones in usage for every 100 people.

According to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article " Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment ?," published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Sevier County has the highest rate of online pornography usage in the United States.

According to Brown and Gilman, usage of the plural to the Roman emperor began in the fourth century AD.

According to the subsequent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's investigation and report, numerous energy trading companies, many based in Texas, such as Enron Corporation, illegally restricted their supply to the point where the spikes in power usage would cause blackouts.

According to Scottish linguist Deborah Cameron, " the classic Orwellian argument for finding this usage objectionable would be that

According to others however, it was customary to recite the formula in various lands of the Jewish dispersion, and it is clear likewise from Amram's Siddur that the usage was widespread as early as his time in Spain.

According to historians Michael C. Meyer and William L. Sherman, early in the 16th century Spanish colonial usage of the term, mestizo " was almost synonymous with bastard " ( illegitimate child ).

:* According to the second theory, the usage alludes to the Arabic root word “ shei ” which stands for the unknown.

According to the PRCA, " Most calves do not compete more than a few dozen times in their lives because of weight and usage restrictions and the fact that calves grow so rapidly.

According to many historians, the usage of the word " Oghuz " is dated back to the advent of the Huns ( 220 BC ).

According to the EPA, " A small drip from a worn faucet washer can waste 20 gallons of water per day, while larger leaks can waste hundreds of gallons ": When using a sink, being more aware of water usage is a very simple way to use water more sustainably.

According to classical Arabic usage in the time when the Qur ' an was recited by Prophet Muhammad, Hur ' in is made of two words Hur as well as In.

According to this view, assuming that global food demand is on the rise, restricting crop usage to traditional low-yield methods would also require at least one of the following: the world population to decrease, either voluntarily or as a result of mass starvations ; or the conversion of forest land into crop land.

According to accounts which vary in some of the details, in 340 BC the Byzantines and their allies the Athenians were under siege by the troops of Philip of Macedon.

According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 75 % of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010 and 80 % in 2011.

According to biographer Anderson, contrary to the belief of Roosevelt and other allies, Taft's role as Governor-General in the Philippines did not serve to equip him with the political skills essential for the White House.

According to a contemporary account by theologian, Sheikh Yusuf Al Bahrani, in an unsuccessful attempt by the Persians and their Bedouin allies to take back Bahrain from the Kharijite Omanis, much of the country was burnt to the ground.

According to Jordanes, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed to settle on Roman soil as a state within a state.

According to Müller, the state of Elis in Arcadia, allies of the Aetolians, provided a guide ( Oxylus ) for passage through Arcadia after crossing the Gulf of Corinth from Naupactus.

According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to Herodotus " The Spartans sent the men with Leonidas on ahead so that the rest of the allies would see them and march with no fear of defeat, instead of medizing like the others if they learned that the Spartans were delaying.

According to the Continental annalists, the English proved as offensive to their allies as to their enemies in the field.

According to the Russian sources, French lost 16, 000 men, and the allies ’ only 6, 000 men.

According to Phillip Rance some tribes of Hibernia, called Attacotti ( Old Irish term: aithechthúatha ), from southern Leinster were Foederati ( allies, used as mercenary soldiers ) of the late Roman Empire, and fought together with the Roman legions in the second half of the 4th century

According to a statement released by Ney, this move was intended to express displeasure with France's " continued refusal to stand with their U. S. allies ".

According to the interview, it may also protect Arab countries who are allies of the U. S. but with which Israel has no diplomatic ties.

According to the new threat scenario facing Germany and its NATO allies, the Bundeswehr is currently reorganising itself.

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

According to the Official Results, Bangladesh Awami League won 230 out of 299 constituencies, and together with its allies, had a total of 262 parliamentary seats.

According to Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency ( New York: Henry Holt, 2004 ), application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to this version of events, Vortigern would have instructed Cunedda and his Votadini subjects to move to Wales in response to the aforementioned Irish incursions no later than the year 442, when Vortigern's former Saxon allies rebelled against his rule.

According to a San Francisco Weekly newspaper account, citing no sources but based largely on interviews with two former political allies of White, he quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed black suspect.

According to local legend, the Ottawa, along with their allies the Potawatomi, attacked a band of Illini along the Illinois River.

The conflict between Israel and the Arab countries has been described as a proxy war, with Israel acting as a proxy for the United States and the Soviet Union's proxies being Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon., According to Pennsylvania State University Professor of Political Science Stephen J. Cimbala, this theater was the site of the greatest Cold War setback to America when, under the influence of anti-Israeli attitudes after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, American allies Saudi Arabia and Iran ( under the shah ) drifted from the American sphere of influence, leading to the 1973 oil crisis as well as the eventual Iranian Revolution in 1979.

According to the Iliad, the Phrygians were Trojan allies during the Trojan War.

According to local legend, the Ottawa, along with their allies the Potawatomi, attacked a band of Illini along the Illinois River.

According to Diodorus Siculus, more than 600 of the Boeotians and their allies fell, and the Spartans lost 350 men.