There was a nice long clip of Clarence Thomas using that phrase during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, when he denied that he had sexually harassed Anita Hill.
In Chief Justice Roberts' famous (now mostly infamous) phrase at his confirmation hearing, the Justices are like baseball umpires, who do nothing more than call balls and strikes.
http://t.co/RF2MScFwrt He told The Times: "This phrase is the final confirmation that Tim Hunt's remark was light-hearted banter against himself.
In the phrase he used at his confirmation hearings, each justice is "like an umpire" at a baseball game — not favoring one team over the other.
Again, we considered both the confirmation 'is-part-of-phrase' and the negation 'is-not-part-of-phrase' features.
'Labelling' refers to describing something in words, or a short phrase, while 'certification' refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organisation, often by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit.
He did, however, also admit that he had called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a "piece of intrusive legislation", a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings.
At her recent confirmation hearing, she barely mentioned the phrase "money market funds" in her prepared statement.
When you hear a phrase like this, the investor could be suffering from "confirmation bias".
The school has said in future it will use a non-religious phrase — during its classes on world religions — despite its confirmation that the material was in line with Virginia state standards and requirements for this kind of lesson.
