Themes were used to develop a coding sheet to qualify comments on a goodness/badness, quality/quantity scale as well as on the aspect of the curriculum (e.g., questions, content or website function) addressed by the comments.
That's why we could cheerfully report in 1922, without qualifying comment, that Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame had decreed sports a cure for "the effeminate type of cookie eater" on campus; he recommended that boxing be compulsory for every college man.
Although experts made more interpretative and evaluative comments, they more often qualified their comments with respect to both their interpretation of the evidence and the limitations of their task environment.
Judge Calabresi qualified his comments, adding: "I am not suggesting for a moment that Bush is Hitler.
Rock qualified his comments by saying that the industry was not "burning cross racist... it's a different type of racist".
He later qualified his comments, saying he meant that the two sides of Jerusalem should not be separated by walls or barbed wire.
In 2010 General Henry Rangel Silva, now the defence minister, said the armed forces were "wedded" to Mr Chávez's socialist project and would find it "difficult" to accept a change of government, though he later qualified these comments.
Sadly, most of what he told me were qualified "no comments", but we were able to glean a couple nifty tidbits about AT&T's involvement with the new phone.
Buffett qualified his comments by claiming that health care policy was "way outside [his] circle of competence".
Both full-length and shortened versions qualified, but comments and discussion items concerning guidelines were excluded.
(1) Students at both schools indicated that they thought it likely that using the ePortfolio as students would assist them as Foundation doctors, although these opinions were often qualified by comments about the time needed to maintain a portfolio.
