The United States has to take a neutral position on the claims but has proposed a fairer way of settling them — through negotiation and "without coercion, without intimidation, without threats and without the use of force".
Recent changes in the Home Office's policy position on asylum claims from certain countries seem to be directed at reducing the numbers of young refugees granted full refugee status – regardless of whether there has been any significant improvement in the human rights situation in their countries of origin.
Mrs Clinton said the US took no position on the claims, but urged Asean Association of South East Asian Nationss) to "work collaboratively to resolve disputes without coercion, without intimidation and certainly without the use of force".
As a "virtual participant," the social scientist must take a position on the claims made by those he observes: he has access through communicative experience only "under the presupposition that he judges the agreement and disagreement, the validity claims and potential reasons with which he is confronted" (ibid., 116).
But our strong position on contested claims alone does not head off possible conflict over these issues -- and we know that.
He later said the U.S. security treaty with Japan "covers all territories under Japan's administration, including the Senkaku islands," but reiterated that Washington did not take a position on competing claims of sovereignty.
Acute pancreatitis was defined as a hospitalization with an International Classification of Disease, 9th Edition (ICD-9) diagnosis code of 577.0x (positive predictive value 60%) in the primary (first) position on the claim 6. Pancreatic cancer was defined by an inpatient claim with ICD-9 157.x in the primary position.
SLE patients were required to have at least one inpatient SLE diagnosis code (ICD-9-CM 710.0x) in any position on the claim or at least two non-diagnostic (not laboratory or radiology) outpatient claims at least 30 days but less than 2 years apart with an SLE diagnosis code in any position.
Democratic TV ads in Iowa have repeatedly misrepresented Republican Joni Ernst's position on Social Security, claiming she "would privatize Social Security" or that she has "proposed privatizing Social Security".
