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Rating agencies said on Wednesday that they would likely affirm Ambac's top ratings if it successfully issued securities.

Standard & Poor's and Moody's said they would likely affirm Ambac's triple-A rating if the plan is successful, though both said the firm will likely remain on review for possible downgrades, according to TradeTheNews.com.

Standard & Poor's said it would likely affirm Ambac's AAA financial strength rating while keeping it on negative watch if the capital raise is successful, but could also remove the insurer from its watch list.

Long Term Budget and Debt Reform According to David T Beers, Beth Ann Bovino and Curtis Moulton of the Standard and Poor's Sovereign Debt team, "If the opposing camps agree to raise the debt ceiling before the deadline and come to terms on a long-term debt-reduction plan, Standard & Poor's would likely affirm the U.S. ratings and remove them from CreditWatch".

But the Supreme Court is more likely to affirm the father's rights in the case, Ms. Falk said.

In fact, studies show that the prospect of a reëlection or retention campaign makes judges more punitive toward criminal defendants, and high-court judges more likely to affirm death sentences.

In general, priests are more likely to affirm that they are happy in their lives and satisfied with their work than are doctors, lawyers, teachers, professors and even married Protestant clergy.

Indeed, the American policy has put the administration in the position of calling for democratic reform but resisting Palestinian elections, which would be likely to affirm Mr. Arafat's popularity.

One of bin Hammam's avowed aims is to prevent the Asian Football Confederation, of which he was president, from holding elections by the end of May — elections that are likely to affirm a Chinese official as the leader of the continental soccer organization.

No matter how popular such a tax increase may be in isolation, Obama's proposal is very likely to affirm the fears of some sizable contingent of voters who pulled the lever for him last time — fears that he is, at bottom, a conventional liberal of the 1970s variety.

Standard & Poor's and Moody's both said they are likely to affirm Ambac's AAA rating if the capital raise is successful.