In patients with iatrogenic CJD, the diagnosis of dCJD was decided by confirmation of dura mater grafting.
Because the PPVs for all of our definitions were low, we decided that confirmation of individual cases was likely to be necessary (strategy 2).
Judge Sotomayor is scheduled to go to Capitol Hill next week to begin meeting with the senators who will decide her confirmation, and the president's statement was part of an effort by the White House to contain the political uproar over a remark that has become a focal point of conservative criticism.
Instead, he suggested that the most important alleged witness of an alleged incident that could decide a Supreme Court confirmation isn't worth putting under oath.
Mainstream documentary audiences tend to want investigations of known evils or a confirmation of decided heroes.
When Congress created a vitally needed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of the financial reform law, Republicans in the Senate decided to block confirmation of a chief so the agency could not exercise its full regulatory powers.
CNN decided to get confirmation first and soon discovered it was a hoax.
Finding none, Senator Specter, who had assumed at the start of the hearing that he would vote for confirmation, decided to vote No, fully recognizing the price he would pay within his own party.
Raised by a Roman Catholic family in upstate New York, Aurora began her path to self discovery at age 16 when she decided to forgo confirmation at the local church.
The batsman stood his ground and despite the fact that one official, Marais Erasmus, was standing almost alongside the fielder, the umpires, who had unofficially ruled it a clean catch, decided to seek third-umpire confirmation.
THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump has decided to risk a confirmation fight, officially nominating ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state this morning.
