He said that lower courts are virtually certain to affirm existing Supreme Court rulings and, like many other legal experts, he predicted that the Supreme Court was very unlikely to agree to hear such a case.
Delegates here said the Soviet Union, particularly in the first year of the conference, had insisted on a number of what they termed "political" demands, including a treaty affirming existing prohibitions on the use of force in international law, a freeze on military spending and the creation of nuclear free zones in Europe.
In light of the precedents favoring their cause, the National Immigration Law Center has been pushing school districts nationwide to adopt "Campus Safe Zone" policies, which mostly affirm existing policies while expressing strong support for undocumented students.
After the market closed, Moody's and Standard & Poor's both affirmed their existing ratings on American government debt.
They fear that the coming election will neither affirm the existing order nor accomplish sweeping change "in a way that will recreate a functional and legitimate political process".
And why aren't more believers distressed when language that pretty clearly affirms an existing, active, transcendental God must be defended as nothing more than language about what the nation's framers thought two centuries ago?
It's not that everyone's a closet narcissist and thinks they are superior to everyone else, rather that confirmation bias kicks in and seems to affirm your existing beliefs.
Those with fixed mindsets chose to redo the easier puzzles, thus affirming their existing abilities.
The connection between inflammation and various disease states is strongly affirmed in the existing literature, along with the connection between stress and immune function.
The general idea of what these scholars are finding can be summed up with the concept of biased assimilation, which is a process by which people tend to engage new information in a way that affirms their existing understanding of the world, and themselves (e.g., Kahan et al., 2007).
