Sentence examples for were affirmed by from inspiring English sources

The following criteria were employed for item selection: Percentage affirmation of item: Items that were affirmed by a very small or very large proportion of the sample were excluded.

All three decisions were affirmed by the Supreme Court.

The Netscape suit uses the findings in the government case, but goes beyond the conclusions of law that were affirmed by a federal appeals court last June.

But any decision is merely a recommendation that would only grow teeth if it were affirmed by a majority vote of the commission.

She also noted that in the five times her rulings were appealed, once by the plaintiffs, her decisions were affirmed by a higher court.

In the United States, where roughly three-fourths of the states and the federal government have retained the death penalty, about two-thirds of all executions since 1976 (when new death penalty laws were affirmed by the Supreme Court) have occurred in just six states Texas, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

It was this ruling that was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

His conviction was affirmed by a superior court judge.

This ancient teaching is affirmed by both Christianity and Islam.

The vote must be affirmed by supervisors after public hearings this summer to go into effect.

This concern has been affirmed by the government's own research.