According to the World Bank's Articles of Agreement ( as amended effective 16 February 1989 ), all of its decisions must be guided by a commitment to promote foreign investment, international trade, and facilitate capital investment.

According to the post-war Potsdam Agreement, the city was placed under Polish administration and renamed Koszalin.

According to the 1975 Sinai Interim Agreement signed by the United States and Israel as a precondition for Israel's return of the Sinai Peninsula and its associated oil reserves to Egypt, in an emergency the U. S. is obligated to make oil available for sale to Israel for up to 5 years.

According to KSS's 1837 " Articles of Agreement ", it was intended to serve the banking needs of the growing Mormon community in Kirtland, Ohio.

According to Footnote 2 Anti-Dumping Agreement, domestic sales of the like product are sufficient to base normal value on if they account for 5 per cent or more of the sales of the product under consideration to the importing country market.

According to the Oslo Agreement the right of all faiths to have access to holy places was to be guaranteed.

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 a 2008 research brief published by the World Bank as part of its Trade Costs and Facilitation Project, ASEAN members have the potential to reap significant benefits from investments in further trade facilitation reform, due to the comprehensive tariff reform already realised through the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.

According to the U. S .- Japan Status of Forces Agreement U. S. personnel have partial extraterritorial right, so in most cases suspects were not arrested by Japanese authorities.

According to the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, the SMAD was assigned the eastern portion of present-day Germany, consisting mostly of central Prussia.

According to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement in the aftermath of World War II, the river became part of the Polish western border with Germany ( the Oder-Neisse line ).

According to McMichael, a “ world agriculture ” under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (“ food from nowhere ”) represents one pole of the “ central contradiction ” of the present regime.

According to Financial Times reporter Stacy-Marie Ishmael, the Master Agreement is " fundamental to, and provides a template for, the derivatives market.

According to World Trade Organization rules, a country can launch its own investigation and decide to charge extra duties, provided such additional duties are in accordance with the GATT Article VI and the GATT Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

According to the Potsdam Agreement, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany ( German initials: SMAD ) was assigned responsibility for the ( present-day ) eastern portion of Germany.

According to straw polls, the constituency was alone in Northern Ireland in voting against the Belfast Agreement.

According to the U. S. Trade Representative website, Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization ( WTO ); developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar ; shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement ; and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.

According to international organizations such as UNESCO and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), cultural industries ( sometimes also known as " creative industries ") combine the creation, production, and distribution of goods and services that are cultural in nature and usually protected by intellectual property rights.

According to the Moscow Agreement, signed in May 1994, the ceasefire line was drawn to the north-east of it so, that the Upper Kodori Valley remained outside of the control of Abkhazian authorities.

According to the website of the German embassy in London, von Herwarth and his superior, Ambassador von der Schulenburg, had already been trying since before the Munich Agreement to persuade Britain, France and the United States not to give in to Hitler's territorial demands.

According to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement, the town became a part of the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian SFSR and was renamed to Neman.

According to Reed, he resigned his job in protest against the appeasement of Hitler after the Munich Agreement of 1938.

According to the BLACKSEAFOR Agreement, two scheduled activations take place each year.

Sometimes he had to justify his European fame: ' According to the Union of Soviet Writers, some literature circles of the West see unusual importance of my work, not matching its modesty and low productivity …'"

According to anthropologists Todd Sanders and Harry G. West, evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

According to Adrian Fortescue, the Scholastic theory that God is pure actuality prevented Palamism from having much influence in the West.

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

According to the same program, the crisis committee delegated to make decisions on how to deal with the incident consisted of Bruno Merk ( the Bavarian interior minister ), Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( the West German interior minister ) and Manfred Schreiber ( Munich's Chief of Police ); in other words, two politicians and one tactician.

According to Fred Siegel, the group of militants began to be accepted, if not always admired, by " guilt-ridden liberals ", who saw its panache as a countercultural critique of West Germany's " boring bourgeois life " and who resented their nation's association with the American war in Vietnam.

According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāli language, the ancient period of Sri Lanka begins in 543 BC with the landing of Vijaya, a semi-legendary king sailed 860 nautical miles on eight ships to Sri Lanka with 700 followers from the southwest coast of what is now the Rarh region of West Bengal.

According to Fyfe, " it was estimated in 1789 that 74, 000 slaves were exported annually from West Africa, about 38, 000 by British firms.

According to their tally, there were 751 Samaritans as of January 1, 2012, living exclusively in two localities, one in Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, and the other in the Israeli city of Holon.

According to this explanation, East German political authorities were well aware of West German television's popularity and adopted SECAM rather than the PAL encoding used in West Germany.

According to Kirkland, " most scholars who have seriously studied Daoism, both in Asia and the West, have finally abandoned the simplistic dichotomy of Dàojiā and Dàojiào, ' philosophical Daoism ' and ' religious Daoism.

According to ABC Radio Australia, " Foreign policy issues that feature in Vanuatu include wide support for the Free West Papua Movement and broadly for independence throughout Melanesia, the One China Policy and relations with Australia and New Zealand.

According to Christopher Frayling's book Something to do with Death, Leone knew a great deal about the American Old West.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Carib's superior weapons and seafaring prowess allowed them to defeat most Arawak nations in the West Indies — enslaving some, and cannibalizing others.

According to one story, the United States Navy issued a Letter of Marque to the Airship Resolute on the West Coast of the United States at the beginning of World War II, making it the first time the US Navy commissioned a privateer since the War of 1812.

According to oral tradition, new Austronesian clans ( Malays, Javanese, Bugis, and Orang Laut ), historically referred to in general, regardless of their native island, as the " Hova " ( from Old Bugis uwa, " commoner ") landed in the North West and East coast of the island.

According to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time from Atlantis crossing the Gorgades to the islands of the Ladies of the West ( Hesperides ) is around 40 days.