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  • The documents - known as Confirmatory Action Letters, or CALs - are one of the last measures before the NRC cracks down with a stringent binding order like suspension or revocation of a nuclear plant's license.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • Confirmatory hearings of other senior public appointments, like the governor of the Bank of England, have proved valuable.

    MPs and the judiciary: Judging the judges | Editorial 2011

  • Confirmatory of this is a statement by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer almost four years ago:

    EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination 2009

  • Confirmatory bias was equal for the six methods I tried, so it cannot explain differences between them.

    The Confirmatory Bias Diet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Confirmatory evidence jumps out at us, and we find it emotionally appealing.

    Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 5.5 of 6 2009

  • Confirmatory factor analyses by Avolio, Bass, and Dong (1999) of 14 surveys that used the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire concluded from the best-fitting model that transformational leaders are inspirational, intellectually stimulating and/or individually considerate; transactional leaders practice contingent reward and active management by exception (contingent negative feedback).

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Confirmatory factor analyses by Avolio, Bass, and Dong (1999) of 14 surveys that used the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire concluded from the best-fitting model that transformational leaders are inspirational, intellectually stimulating and/or individually considerate; transactional leaders practice contingent reward and active management by exception (contingent negative feedback).

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • These books are the Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms, from 1993, followed by Desktop Companion to Physical Pathology, published in 1998 as a companion volume.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • These books are the Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms, from 1993, followed by Desktop Companion to Physical Pathology, published in 1998 as a companion volume.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • Confirmatory investigations at first rare, became more and more numerous; at the same time endoglobular parasites were discovered in different animals which closely resembled the haematozoon of malaria.

    Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture 1967

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