The phrase "affiliated according" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to determine its intended use.
Example: "The organizations are affiliated according to their shared goals."
Alternatives: "associated based on" or "connected in accordance with".
The company and its affiliate, according to the report, also spent 200 million rupees to buy an acre of industrial land outside Bangalore from the Yeddyurappa family.
Since 2001, the intelligence agency has awarded up to $600 million in classified contracts to Blackwater and its affiliates, according to a United States government official.
Farmers received lower prices because Dean bought milk exclusively from the cooperative and its affiliates, according to a complaint in federal court in Burlington, Vt.
Almost 80% of Metema's businesses are run by smugglers and their affiliates, according to Sister Hamelmal Melaku of the Ethiopia Higher Clinic.
SBC provides more than 80percentt of its D.S.L. connections to its own affiliates, according to a recent company report to its investors.
US officials have also suggested a bomb was planted on the plane by Islamic State (Isis) or an Isis affiliate, according to several media reports citing unnamed sources.
Shares of WorldCom owned by Alliance Capital, the mutual fund, were held in the portfolios of its Sanford C. Bernstein affiliate, according to a statement yesterday by Alliance.
Then, in September 2008, the cash balance "began to drop precipitously," sometimes hovering near zero until Mr. Madoff could transfer fresh funds in from his London affiliate, according to the lawsuit.
Sometime in June, Mr. Pike bought the loan from the affiliate, according to e-mail messages between senior executives at Acorn that were provided to a reporter by Acorn employees, who requested anonymity because they feared losing their jobs.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has not awarded any federal grant money directly to the antipoverty group Acorn over the last seven years, but about $200,000 has made its way to the organization or its affiliates, according to an internal audit released Friday.
