Though Hassig suggests that interpretations of the Flower Wars have been exaggerated, he accepts that captives of these wars were in fact sacrificed.

However in recent years this interpretation has been doubted by scholars such as Nigel Davies and Ross Hassig, who argues that " the mutual arrangement " of the flower war institution is dubious, and suggest that the Flower War was in fact a low-intensity, sustained conflict with the Aztec side trying to wear down the Tlaxcalteca in order to later conquer them entirely.

According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, " between 10, 000 and 80, 400 persons " were sacrificed in the ceremony.

According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, " between 10, 000 and 80, 400 people " were sacrificed in the ceremony.

* Hassig, Ross ( 1988 ) Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control.

* Hassig, Ross ( 1988 ) Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control.

* Hassig, Debra ( 1995 ) Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology.

* Hassig, Debra, ed.

Ross Hassig ( 1988 ) however poses four main political purposes of xochiyaoyotl: 1.

* Hassig, Ross.

* Hassig, Ross.

Goitein believes the leadership he displayed during the ransoming of the Crusader captives led to this appointment.

Song Jiang feels guilty as he believes that he is responsible for Lu Junyi's plight thus he rallies his fellows to form an army to attack Daming Prefecture and rescue the captives.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) discovers nine year old Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), whom he believes to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force ; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), who promises to train him.

He compares the event to the Reichstag fire and believes that the " 9-11 Wars " ( the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan ( 2001 – present )) were lobbied for and exploited by multinational corporations, the " ruling group mind.

Alternatively, a Star Wars fan who believes that only the films ( with or without Lucasfilm's changes ) reflect George Lucas's universe and that the spin-off novels, comic books and other stories are not continuous or worth consideration can also be called a purist.

Steven Kent of The Seattle Times believes that the general aspects of the game appeal to most computer gamers, not just Star Wars fans.

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Dr. Lang believes that The Shapings started well before Zor's discovery of protoculture, and have influenced the progress of the Robotech Wars, including the SDF-3's failure to appear in Earthspace at the end of the TV series.

Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created as children, Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience as being `` due, no doubt, to carelessness, but still wicked ''.

Although no confirmation exists that these two ships were controlled by Teach and Bonnet, author Angus Konstam believes it very likely they were.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria believes that Christ is perfect in His divinity, and He is perfect in His humanity, but His divinity and His humanity were united in one nature called " the nature of the incarnate word ", which was reiterated by Saint Cyril of Alexandria.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

Another Nobel winner, Paul Samuelson believes that Hayek was worthy of his award but nevertheless claims that " there were good historical reasons for fading memories of Hayek within the mainstream last half of the twentieth century economist fraternity.

Hansen also believes the Olmec were not the mother culture in Mesoamerica.

If the individual believes that there were just reasons for the harm inflicted, collective guilt is likely to be reduced.

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

The team believes that the immediate effects of bites from these lizards were caused by mild envenomation.

The subject believes that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in reality there were no such punishments.

He frequently threw his short sword, and Kenji Tokitsu believes that shuriken methods for the wakizashi were the Niten Ichi Ryu's secret techniques.

He further believes that the terms " Vesi " and " Ostrogothi " were used by the peoples to boastfully describe themselves.

They were unaware that, although Singer believes that some lives are so blighted from the beginning that their parents may decide their lives are not worth living, in other cases, once the decision is made to keep them alive, everything that can be done to improve the quality of their life should, to Singer's mind, be done.

John Chadwick believes that these were the precursor divinities of Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon.

Discovery Channel Magazine stated that vanishing spaceships, faster-than-light travel and dematerialised transport were only dreams at the time the original series was made, but physicist Michio Kaku believes all these things are possible.

Crowe's sympathies were sparked when a pupil drowned at the nearby Coffs Harbour beach in 2001, and he believes the pool will help students become better swimmers and improve their knowledge of water safety.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone, however, has accused the film of promoting " the worship of World War II as the good war ," and has lumped it alongside films such as Gladiator and Black Hawk Down that he believes were well-made, but may have inadvertently contributed to Americans ' readiness for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

She believes it is likely thousands more were kidnapped who were never documented.

Bill Oakley believes that the " junior " writers are usually given Marge episodes because he and writing partner Josh Weinstein were given several to write during their first season.

“ If, as the writer believes Schiller, various private cases of action were available in satisfying commercial needs, the state was acting in exactly the same fashion as it does at the present day .”

Roger Collins believes the Visigoths were a creation of the Gothic War of 376 – 382 and began as a collection of foederati ( Wolfram's " federate armies ") under Alaric I in the eastern Balkans, composed of largely Tervingi with Greuthungian and other barbarian contingents.

) Urlanis believes that the official figures for those killed were considerably underestimated because a large part of the reports were lost in retreats.