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The Girl Who Played with Fire
- And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.†
Part 1according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- According to one newspaper article, Forbes was suspected of having placed a larger portion of the assets into investment funds than was stipulated in the statutes.†
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- The next morning she got up early to visit Nobel Estates, the company that, according to some, had the best reputation in Stockholm.†
Part 2
- Harriet, according to the agreement we made with Henrik, his part ownership was to last for two years.†
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- He decided that there was not and accordingly hired Johanna Karolina Oskarsson as Holger Palmgren's personal assistant and trainer.†
Part 2accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- Bjurman seemed to be behaving in accordance with her instructions.†
Part 2accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- According to the public weapons registry he had a licence for a Colt .45 Magnum.†
Part 2according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- According to one evening paper, Svavelsjö MC had six or seven members and a dozen hangers-on.†
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- According to the police gang unit, the club's number two was Sonny Nieminen, now thirty-seven years old, who had run up no fewer than twenty-three convictions.†
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- He had been sentenced according to a scale that was incomprehensible to Salander: probation, fines, and repeated stints of thirty to sixty days in jail, until 1989 when he was put away for ten months for aggravated assault and robbery.†
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- According to a newspaper article from 2001 in which Nieminen was not named—but where the details of the suspect were such that he was effectively identified—he looked more than likely to have played his part in the murder of a member of a rival gang.†
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- According to the system information it was an older Macintosh PowerPC with a hard disk of only 750 MB, so it must be a leftover that was probably only used for word processing by occasional freelancers.†
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- According to Svensson, the name Zala had turned up in nine cases related to drugs, weapons, or prostitution since the mid-nineties.†
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- According to G., the police believed that Nieminen had been the catalyst behind the whole gang.†
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- According to the neighbours the shots were fired only a minute or so before I arrived.†
Part 3
- According to the neighbours, Blomkvist had arrived at the apartment less than two minutes after the second shot was fired.†
Part 3
- Accordingly, he had been to Saltsjöbaden only on the few occasions when Berger had hosted parties where his absence would have been remarked on.†
Part 3accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- It's unreasonable for us simply to go ahead according to plan.†
Part 3according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- ...he worked on bringing Swedish law into accord with that of the EU,
Part 3 *accord = agreement
- According to witnesses, people who live on the same staircase, the shots were fired within a few seconds of each other.†
Part 3according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- According to another lawyer in the same building, he fell ill two years ago and has more or less shut down his practice.†
Part 3
- According to Bubble the prosecutor wants to have a confession before they arrest anybody.†
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- "There's been a party here," he said out loud, holding up a patent-leather outfit that according to the label was designed by Domino Fashion—whatever that was.†
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- And why—when you consider that Lisbeth Salander is, according to our information, only one hand's breadth tall—do those leather pants you're holding up fit a person who is at least five foot eight?†
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- According to my source it's a woman who is wanted for questioning.†
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- Ekström had maintained that according to all available documentation, Salander was a mentally ill, potentially violent woman and that something had apparently triggered a murderous rage.†
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- According to the paperwork she is a developmentally disabled near-psychopath.†
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- According to the two men who have worked with her, she's a skilled researcher.†
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- On the other hand, he could not for the life of him understand what would have prompted her to murder two people who, according to all available information, were utterly unknown to her.†
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- Peculiar, yes, but completely rational according to her own scheme of things.†
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- According to Armansky, Salander is very good with computers.†
Part 3
- Ekström agreed that they should proceed according to Bublanski's plan.†
Part 3
- The reporter had even found a girl he called Sara who, according to her own testimony, had been the object of the woman's pickup attempts.†
Part 3
- On the other hand, several newspapers floated the theory that since Mia Johansson's thesis dealt with the sex trade, this might be Salander's motive for the murders, on the grounds that—according to the social welfare agency—she was a prostitute.†
Part 4
- According to the Geneva Conventions, subjecting prisoners to sensory deprivation was classified as inhumane.†
Part 4
- Bjurman was dead because he had chosen not to play according to the rules she had stipulated.†
Part 4
- After several futile attempts at Norén's parents' house, Faste had succeeded at the studio, where according to her sister she was "helping out" with the production of a CD by the band Cold Wax from Borlänge.†
Part 4
- According to the pathologist, Bjurman was shot between 10:00 and 11:00 that night.†
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- But the police clearly considered her a serious suspect, and according to the prosecutor's statement, the murders might soon be solved.†
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- She vaguely wondered whether Berger was a dyke too, since all the women in this investigation, according to Faste, seemed to have that inclination.†
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- And according to the newspapers he was also friends with Salander.†
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- Or else give us a reasonable explanation for why, according to your list of calls, you called a journalist who answers to the name of Tony Scala at 9:57 this morning, right after the meeting and just before Scala went public with the very information we had decided to keep secret.†
Part 4
- Even if the girl was as nutty as a fruitcake—which she obviously was, according to the newspapers and what he had just seen of her here—their emblem still ought to command respect.†
Part 4
- According to Sandström, the man had murdered someone in a warehouse with Lundin's help.†
Part 4
- Accordingly, the Strängnäs police force was busy, almost to a man.†
Part 4accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- According to the local team, Lundin has serious injuries to his face: a broken jaw and two teeth knocked out.†
Part 4according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- But according to the old man who called in, he was unconscious when he arrived.†
Part 4
- Blomkvist is busy checking off the names on their list, but according to Malin Eriksson, one of the editors there, he hasn't turned up anything of interest.†
Part 4
- It had rubber stamps on it saying that the report was classified as top secret according to the law of national security.†
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- It was 6:50, and according to a handwritten sign on the front door, the shop did not open until 7:30.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(accord as in: according to, or in accord with) in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity withThis meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result
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(2)
(accord as in: reached an accord) an agreementIn this sense, accord can refer to a formal agreement (such as one written between two countries) or an informal agreement (such as an unvoiced consensus about what should be done).
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(3)
(accord as in: done of her own accord) mindThis sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
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(4)
(accord as in: accord her the respect deserved) to give someone special treatment -- especially respect
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)