Last week, the Russians formally affirmed this position by proposing a new draft protocol to a treaty reducing long-range arms.

In 1983, the CCAR took one of its most controversial stands and formally affirmed that a Jewish identity can be passed down through either the mother or the father, if the child is raised with a Jewish identity.

The Muslim-led Government issued the warning after the self-proclaimed parliament of the Serbian nationalists in Bosnia formally affirmed the decision it had made on Friday to reject the peace plan proposed by the United Nations and the European Community.

In the absence of international agreement, McKinley favored legislation to formally affirm the gold standard, but was initially deterred by the silver strength in the Senate.

When the Assemblies of God formally affirmed the traditional doctrine of the Trinity at its Fourth General Council in October 1916, Oneness Pentecostals were forced to withdraw.

Berger notes in a recent article for Yated Ne'eman that he is "unfamiliar with a single public declaration formally affirming that Lubavitch chassidim should not accept the belief that the Rebbe is the Messiah."

The decades of accumulated evidence tended to demonstrate that children are capable of participating in medical decisionmaking in a meaningful way; and legal and medical communities have demonstrated an increasing willingness to formally affirm decisions made by young people even regarding life and death.

His religious convictions on the outbreak of the wars of Wars of Religion in 1562 cannot be determined, but he affirmed formally his Catholic faith, taking an oath that year along with other members of the Parlement.

Methodism does not formally affirm this belief, but maintains silence on what lies between death and the last judgment.