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• Bogus Talking Point #3: Elizabeth Warren is not 'confirmable' Zach Carter: There Are Zero Good Reasons To Block Elizabeth Warren
• Dodd has questioned whether Warren is "confirmable," given that many Republicans and financial industry representatives would oppose her confirmation outright. Obama grapples with how to involve controversial professor in consumer agency
• My query was sincere, my comment was loaded with independently confirmable facts and you come back to me with… nothing.
• The idea is quite different -- that one can disagree about the legitimacy and or scope of the case and still be confirmable, that is, within the mainstream. Balkinization
• Many a scientific hypothesis originated as a testable, that is, confirmable or disconfirmable knowledge-claim; but when difficulties arose, often by Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• But grudgingly confirmable, meaning Democrats may disagree strongly with his views, but they'd be in a hard position to argue with his qualifications or his credentials. CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2005
• I realize that some believe that President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court because she is "confirmable". Michael Kieschnick: Why is the Christian Right Afraid of a Lesbian Homosexual Elena Kagan?
• Given the tumble of apparent memory during that trial run though, I postponed maybe forever a full-dress exploration of earlier memories that may be unusably clear, harsh and unconfirmable. CLEAR PICTURES
• Yet he struck a far more moderate tone in private, with administration officials telling ... - on the very day Justice John Paul Stevens announced retirement -- that they were seeking someone "confirmable" and collegial enough to sway conservative swing Justice Anthony Kennedy. Charles D. Ellison: Supreme Okie Doke
• Historically, a cornerstone of classical empiricism has been the notion that every true generalization must be confirmable by specific observations.