In light of this historical context, one can appreciate the instinct to insist on granting a community-wide and categorical moral approval to gay relationships, especially those that are committed to the Christian virtue of lifelong fidelity (what I take to be the "open and affirming" position).
Such declarations — known as "categorical exclusions" — are already widely used, easing the approval of many highway projects and others.
We constructed the following categorical outcome: (1) rejection of both WLPT and EUT, (2) approval of WLPT but rejection of EUT, and (3) approval of both WLPT and EUT.
We performed the chi-square or Fischer's exact test for categorical data in STATA version 7. We obtained ethical approval from the Cambridge Local Research and Ethics Committee (reference no. 08/H0308/132).
In the context of this heart-numbing controversy, "affirming" has come to mean, "granting a declared moral approval grounded in a community-wide consensus on the categorical status of gay covenantal relationships".
The three most recent drilling approvals for the Vermilion Block 380, the area where Thursday's fire occurred, were approved by federal regulators in 1999 and 2000, using categorical exclusions, according to federal mining records.
Data collection: MH, ED Statistical Analysis: FT. Writing, revising, and final approval of manuscript: ED, MH, FT. Pearson correlation coefficients for continuous variables, Spearman correlation coefficients for categorical variables.
His assertion was categorical.
That's categorical," she said.
That sounds vigorous and categorical.
But others are less categorical.
