It seems that Burns Mantles yearbook was taken as the authority in this matter and that it led everybody astray through having accepted the statement of a press agent some years ago that "Abie" had had 2,532 Broadway performances.
Last night a Ukip spokesman said that, although it accepted the statement had been circulated, Farage had not "written or signed" it and was unaware that it ever existed.
Speaking a day after a border clash set off a fresh round of claims and counterclaims between the countries, Mr. Armitage said he accepted the statement by Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that he was not aiding Islamic militants who were still crossing from Pakistan into Indian-held Kashmir.
Analysis revealed there to be ten BEL Survey statements (2, 3, 5, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 23) in which the mean change in the number of misconceptions held by students whose teachers accepted the statement misconception was greater than that for students of teachers who rejected the statement misconception, producing a mean p =.36 (Table 9).
c The religiosity index, responders received +1 if they agreed with the idea that faith in God is necessary for morality, +1 if they accepted the statement that religion is very important in their lives, and +1 if they said they pray daily; Kruskal Wallis one-way ANOVA on ranks, H = 21.734, df = 2, P ≤ 0.001.
"We do not accept the statements of the president of Iran".
These individuals would not accept the statements of opposition parties as representing a fair disagreement; rather, differences in views would be regarded with deep suspicion.
One is that we accept the statements of Democratic and Republican senators that Mr. Ashcroft is regarded as a man of deep commitment and personal probity.
It is difficult to accept the statements concerning Drakenberg's age at death, since this age is more than 30 years greater than the next oldest verified age at death a difference that in itself casts doubt on its authenticity.
He was also critical of much of the media reporting of Abdellatif's case saying: "Despite the track record of the AFP over the Haneef case for example, even when there was evidence to the contrary, most of the media was too willing to simply accept the statements of the AFP and Coalition politicians as if they were fact".
