Mr. Obama didn't give in; he repeated previous qualifications but did go farther, and less equivocally, than before in acknowledging that the surge had worked.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass). asked questions about DeVos's qualifications to run the trillion-dollar federal student loan program, with DeVos acknowledging that she has no experience running or managing anything near the size and complexity of the program.
"Elizabeth Warren asked questions about DeVos's qualifications to run the trillion-dollar federal student loan program, with DeVos acknowledging that she has no experience running or managing anything near the size and complexity of the program.
None of us likes acknowledging that.
Although dealing with extremely high qualification athletes, we acknowledge that the size of our cohort is relatively small, and our results should be therefore interpreted with caution.
Ms. Addison, who has served on the University of Texas Law School Foundation and is a graduate of the school, acknowledged that Judge Sotomayor's credentials and qualifications were impressive.
Germany has also changed its attitude towards immigrants; since the mid-1990s, the government and the majority of Germans have begun to acknowledge that controlled immigration should be allowed based on qualification standards.
But despite Mr. Fischer's qualifications, even he seemed to acknowledge that he has only a slim chance of being chosen over the front-runner, Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister.
The parenthetical qualifications in the previous sentence acknowledge that the certainty these practices give us is, at least from the perspective of the long run, provisional; it can be replaced or overturned or dislodged.
But he also acknowledged that the "framework of transparency" could be a significant qualification, at least as far as the many contracts with Western companies signed under the Qaddafi government.
Andrew Hutchinson, executive head of Parkside Federation which runs the two schools, acknowledges that it was a risk, but says the international qualification offered both a more rigorous approach and a better route into A-levels.
