For the presentation of the data, the "strongly agree" and "agree" responses were combined to give the proportions of teachers who affirmed the statements and the "strongly disagree" and "disagree" responses were combined to give the proportions of teachers who dissented with the statements.
Last spring she was asked to affirm the statement again after she suggested that the college curriculum should include sexuality as a facet of diversity.
But as the mayor has tried to explain her thinking, Gaylor said her group felt that she was just affirming the statement about religion and government that they had the biggest problem with.
Participants' responses to statement 16 ('Survival of the fittest' means basically that "only the strong survive"') were somewhat split with 40.8% (n = 31) affirming the statement and 59.2% (n = 45) selecting the misconception.
There, the witness affirmed the out-of-court statement but was unable to testify in court as to the underlying facts; here, the witness, Runnels, denied ever making an out-of-court statement but testified at length, and favorably to the defendant, concerning the underlying facts.
The 1998 Statement affirmed the participant's rights to confidentiality and privacy, and suggested concrete mechanisms to protect these rights, such as 'procedures for long term storage, access, and use'.
And here's another twist: In a decision last March in a union lawsuit over unpaid raises by the state, the Illinois Supreme Court made a statement that affirmed the attorney general's stance from the previous summer that state employees should not be paid without authorization from a state budget.
These regions showed greater signal both when Christians rejected stimuli contrary to their doctrine (e.g. "The Biblical god is a myth") and when nonbelievers affirmed the truth of those same statements.
Organized by Max Levchin, chief executive of the online financial firm Affirm, the statement includes signatures from such industry heavyweights as Square CEO Jack Dorsey, eBay CEO John Donahoe and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.
A mid February statement from the G7 affirmed the advanced economies commitment to avoid currency war.
