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To foreclose this possibility, when the Dutch government signed the Protocol it added an interpretative statement declaring that it "interprets the term "human beings" as referring exclusively to a human individual, ie a human being who has been born".
'That's a picture of Notary Sojac' is an interpretative statement, as are 'That's a picture of a unicorn,' 'The passage refers to Brutus's betrayal of Caesar,' and 'The thesis of Macbeth is exceedingly simple: Thou shalt not kill.' Last, critical evaluations are normative judgments that basically say that a work of art is good or bad, or how good or bad it is.
This interpretative statement is arguably unnecessary, because, in the absence of a definition of human being in the Convention itself, States are free to interpret this provision in accordance with their own national policy.
We have now removed our interpretative statement from the Results section and only state that: "We propose that the novel candidate mRNAs require oskar mRNA to initially reach the posterior pole and Oskar protein to remain stably anchored at the posterior pole beyond stage 9".
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Interpretative statements are also non-normative, but concern the 'meaning' of a work of art, with 'meaning' here referring to a semantic relation, or at least a purported semantic relation, between the work and something outside it.
In our examination of outcome values, most abstracts provide the numerical values for the primary endpoints although a few only provide qualitative or interpretative statements of their findings.
The APA, however, exempts "interpretative rules" and "general statements of policy" from notice-and-comment requirements.
'It can issue or amend its real rules, i.e., its interpretative rules and policy statements, quickly and inexpensively without following any statutorily prescribed procedures.' The agency may also think there is another advantage – immunizing its lawmaking from judicial review". The court ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency.
Face-validity assessment resulted in 19 changes to linguistic and interpretative terms in the questionnaire, e.g., Statement 2 was changed from "In a primary-care context, one should wait for the microbiology results to treat an infectious disease" to "In a primary-care context, one should wait for the microbiology results before treating an infectious disease".
2. Would journalists welcome clearer statements of limitations and interpretative danger points in press releases?
"Interpretative" rules, often called "interpretive," date back to the APA.
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