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If someone says that something is true according to a particular person, book, or other source of information, they are indicating where they got their information.
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According to Youtuber Pewdiepie, "T-Series is nothing but Bitch Lasagna".
According to Ella, it was the first time they had met.
According to Mr John, Andrew stayed at the hotel.
He and his father, according to local gossip, haven't been in touch for years.
According to the invitation, the party will be held in the main entrance near the Christmas tree.
You have been absent six times according to our records.
Everything has to go according to your plans, doesn't it?
According to my mother, I should be married by now.
According to the rules, we get to know everything.
Darkyn was supposed to find me much earlier, according to our agreement.
And yet, according to Katie, she ran a budding goat dairy on a run-down farm in Northwest Arkansas.
Vegetables price fluctuate according to season.
According to Martha, no one has been near that mine in years.
So according to history it has been found from the most ancient times, and so it is to our own day.
Now only the commanders of detachments with staffs, and moving according to rules at a distance from the French, still regarded many things as impossible.
According to rumors I've heard, he was fired for stealing from the company.
Your excellency, they say they have got ready, according to your orders, to go against the French, and they shouted something about treachery.
She always did everything according to the rules.
The French generals lost touch with the Russian army of sixty thousand men, and according to Thiers it was only eventually found, like a lost pin, by the skill--and apparently the genius--of Murat.
Everything went according to plan.
But the planet chose for him, according to what his father told him long ago.
Food can be optimized according to three factors, broadly speaking: taste, price, and nutrition.
It would seem that I made it according to the recipe which Marcus Porcius Cato gave about two centuries before Christ.
According to the dispositions...
According to Lisa, they were the closest thing to a family that she had other than her parents and siblings.
According to the forecast, it will be sunny tomorrow.
The farm house area was unlighted and as still as a tomb according to Howie.
According to the legend.
According to the Center for Systemic Peace's tally, the world went from just twenty democracies in 1946 to ninety-two in 2009.
I cooked the rice according to the directions on the box.
I tried to hurry Helen out-of-doors, but she kept her arm extended, and every coat-tail she touched must needs turn round and give an account of the children he left at home, and receive kisses according to their number.
"The photographer lined the students up according to height."
Howie, according to his morning coffee verbal sermons was enthralled with his property, especially his inherited garden, started by the previous tenant and lovingly cared for by him.
The Dawkinses, back to being cautiously nice to each other, were dressed for business—another necktie and nylons day, according to Paulette—scheduled for a group visit to their attorney and a realtor.
"According to the son, Josh had high grade samples," Dean answered.
Yet according to Katie, she had told him she would never move back to Houston; that she intended to marry Bill.
With this machine movable type shuttles can be used, and one can have several shuttles, each with a different set of characters--Greek, French, or mathematical, according to the kind of writing one wishes to do on the typewriter.
More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law.
"Bonuses were given according to performance and seniority."
Those who retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk.
The Wassermann twins, sainted boys according to the stilted account, had been all but ignored, according to the writer, Linda Segal, a name Dean didn't recognize.
"According to my sister, I used to be mean as a child."
According to Portio Research 7.8 trillion SMS messages were sent in 2011, and it is expected that 2012's number will come in at ten trillion.
The prisoners were placed in a certain order, according to the list (Pierre was sixth), and were led to the post.
Darkyn was ancient, according to the tutorial she'd watched, from the time-before-time. He mentioned the term kidnapping, but of course being the saint he is he wouldn't press charges against his wife who according to him was just temporarily disturbed.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.
According to Mr. Cooms everything was accomplished through third parties without him ever knowing our names.
Mother slept constantly, Cynthia said, but according to the doctor, her progress was "as expected."
There was one in Randolph, according to our patrols, but the people discovered it a few weeks ago and have been using the supplies.
According to the time-stamped dinner receipt, Byrne had dined on fish, and had two beers as Hunter had remarked.
It was ten past six, according to his bedside clock.
Two interesting government programs are under way in the United States, according to a June 2011 article in The New York Times.
According to Jeff, the film starts at 7.30.
According to Liebig, man's body is a stove, and food the fuel which keeps up the internal combustion in the lungs.
Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.
This, according to Paley, would be inconvenient.
Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the Rhetor's instructions.
Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.
The corporal came, according to orders, to shut the door.
According to Corday, Shipton doesn't remember anything about the fall and doesn't even remember saying anything to me at the scene.
He was paid according to how quickly he worked.
The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess.
According to the label, the dress is dry clean only.
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events.
Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according to whether they want rain or fine weather: "The wind has blown the clouds away," or, "The wind has brought up the clouds."
Mr. Thomas Morley was admitted with a gunshot wound to his leg, sustained, according to him, when he was mugged in an alley while taking a short cut to his car.
Humphries is out of the system, according to a friend of mine.
According to Betsy, on the note Martha left, she said Quinn was coming back east to meet up with his wife and daughter and leave from here.
According to his notes, far more experiments were conducted than were ever discussed with us.
Everything was done according to the rules.
The mixed news produced a sense of relief that Martha was, according to Fred, temporarily safe, but she seethed at what she saw as Fitzgerald's vindictiveness at attacking them through the old man.
"According to my mom, swimming right after eating is bad for you."
The second battle he would leave to his sisters: teaching his lifemate how to behave according to dhjan standards.
Anyway, the boy is scared to death of Jerome, according to Edith.
Bennigsen did not know this and moved the troops forward according to his own ideas without mentioning the matter to the commander-in-chief.
The burning of Moscow had cost him, according to the head steward's calculation, about two million rubles.
"It's a seasonal place, according to Martha's description," I answered.
Not so, between Betsy and Martha, according to my wife.
I had opted not to call ahead but according to Daniel Brennan, Humphries lived at his mission and almost never left.
According to the Scriptures, God created man in his image
According to the brief phone call, the ten-year-old girl's natural mother, another loser like faux foster mother Janet, had been recently discharged to a halfway house after doing hard time in the state's Cañon City facility.
The government, according to a poll taken last month, may lose the next election.
Two more turns were negotiated and marked and in spite of their slow progress, according to the map they were nearing their goal.
The two together formed a totally incompatible combination, yet Josh Mulligan, at least according to the curmudgeons, was a runner, too.
I'm sworn to protect Toby, and I've done my duty in protecting Sasha, who is also my brother, according to the Code and the oaths I swore to my father and the Council!
According to Effie, she roams the halls at night.
She chose Ouray, at least according to Ryland, because he was her son's father and he was coming here to ice climb.
Effie Quincy was next in the hot seat, according to Fred.
According to Katie's letter, kidding season was almost on them and they were getting the barn ready.
Grow wild according to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become English bay.
Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.
According to the weather report, it's going to rain.
Our conception of the degree of freedom often varies according to differences in the point of view from which we regard the event, but every human action appears to us as a certain combination of freedom and inevitability.
The proportion of freedom to inevitability decreases and increases according to the point of view from which the action is regarded, but their relation is always one of inverse proportion.
According to Martha who remained with Howie, he thrashed about the bed, frightening her.
According to sources at the Ocean Shore Motel, Byrne was last seen on his way to the beach shortly after midnight by Leo Sutter, a waiter at the motel.
According to the pictures, there would be plants.
According to Detective Norman Hunter of the Norfolk Police Department, Byrne's bed had not been slept in.
According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, more than 1.5 million 501(c) charitable organizations exist in the United States.
According to Allan Goodman, president and CEO of the Institute of International Education, The United States continues to host more international students than any other country in the world.
As I have said, I did not study regularly during the early years of my education; nor did I read according to rule.
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to Lorrain's instructions.
According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night.
They insisted on the retention of the camp at Drissa, according to Pfuel's plan, but on changing the movements of the other armies.
The troops are moved according to the enemy's movements and the number of men increases and decreases...
Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which, according to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen.
Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that "the First Column will march" and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.
Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
The rents are high but they vary according to whether you want a garden.
Men can only be taken prisoners if they surrender according to the rules of strategy and tactics, as the Germans did.
If the animals leading the herd change, this happens because the collective will of all the animals is transferred from one leader to another, according to whether the animal is or is not leading them in the direction selected by the whole herd.
Most of people were his relatives, according to Noble.
Christ answered the Herodians according to their condition.
And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics.
Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.
According to the dealer I cornered, there's been some skirmishing between those loyal to you and those who want to install someone else.
Darkyn's end of the deal was hidden from Gabriel, but the deal was marked as fulfilled, according to the Oracle.
According to the instructions, you’ll need to buy some glue.
According to Byrne's expense file, his prior trip to Norfolk had been in late January and, earlier, in October of last year.
According to a recent report by the Department of Health, most people still do not take enough exercise.
They take a test and are then put in to groups according to their ability.
Something had gone awry, or so the twins found out a day or two later, although Vinnie swore everything went according to plan and they hadn't done anything wrong.
According to Weller, the answer is no.
Two hours ago, according to the clock on the mantle.
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