The information was later discredited as being based at least in part on forged documents, and the White House has since backed off the statement.
It might have added some glitz to the occasion, but led to accusations that it discredited it as a serious event.
The controversy allowed Thai nationalists to reheat old, discredited arguments as to why the temple rightfully belongs to Thailand (not so, ruled the International Court of Justice in 1962).
"Performance-related pay is increasingly discredited elsewhere as a means of motivating employees and there has never been any evidence that it motivates teachers or improves their performance, " said NUT general secretary, Christine Blower.
Michael Gove is about to perform a screeching U-turn on his plan to scrap GCSEs - an exam he has repeatedly described as discredited and lacking credibility with employers.
Tax defiers--or "tax protesters" as they've traditionally been known--glom onto one kooky, discredited theory or another as to why the income tax is illegal or doesn't apply to them personally or doesn't cover their normal sources of income. (Example: Only foreign income, or only earnings of federal employees are taxable.) They typically file returns showing zero income or simply stop filing.
This theory has been thoroughly investigated over the past 10 years, and just as thoroughly discredited.
The government has dismissed Mr Aponte as a discredited turncoat offering no proof.
On those scores it is not different from discredited autism therapies such as chelation, listening to Mozart, gluten-free diets and swimming with dolphins.
The leadership is out of touch and its narrative of exporting the Islamic revolution has been discredited across the region, as well as within Iran.
One can only hope that these Israeli and American moves represent simply the death throes of their clearly discredited view of their enemies as distinct and independent actors.
In the Anglo-Saxon world Lamarck's name, if it is known at all, is associated with a theory long since discredited - the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics - the idea that traits or attributes acquired or learned in the space of your life time will somehow be inherited by your children at birth.
He cited now-discredited the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate as a politicized document designed to preclude any moves by the Bush Administration to stop Iran's advance.
With his popularity at an all-time low, he could have discredited other faction members, such as Tehran's ex-mayor, Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi, who had drafted Mr Rafsanjani's resignation speech some weeks earlier.
Asia's woes should ideally be a spur for much-needed internal reforms, particularly as encrusted political establishments are discredited.
The real question is whether he will behave as the creature of the discredited Yeltsin regime, and of the oligarchs behind it.
He was stung by criticism of France's ties to discredited regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, as well as his hosting of Colonel Qaddafi (plus tent) for a week in Paris in 2007.
The first is what seems to have inspired Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of the country's biggest union, Unite, to describe Labour's economic policy as "a victory for discredited Blairism... the last gasp of neo liberalism" which was dragging the party into "the swamp of bond market orthodoxy".
Not only did he return to power a discredited leader, he also established a reputation as an ineffective administrator.
Hearst's second unintended achievement, so Mr Nasaw persuasively argues, is to have discredited, by his excesses, propaganda parading as journalism.
Approaches attempted in the past four years by well-intended Supercommittees, Gangs of Six, Hyphenated Commissions, the presidentially ambitious, and partisan bloggers are, obviously, except to the most stubbornly dogmatic politicos (such as President Obama), thoroughly discredited.
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With the revelation of the spreadsheet errors, some supporters of big government were giddily proclaiming victory as if they had not already been discredited before Reinhart and Rogoff entered the scene.
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Therefore, by throwing as much spaghetti on the wall as possible, one or more strands of discredited global warming claims will nevertheless stick in the minds of an unsuspecting public.
Despite being dismissed by many as a leftover from predecessor Suharto's discredited New Order regime, Habibie endured opposition - even from within his own party - and put up a stubborn fight to remain a key political contender.
In one last attempt to find her, he hires Blomkvist, who has been temporarily discredited in a libel suit, and sets him up as an investigator on the island, a place that no American one-per-cent family would ever dream of owning.
Yet Blackwell has had to try to escape the stigma of his party, as his opponent unfairly but effectively ties him to the discredited Governor Taft.
Dr Stoate says he had been advised he could still claim but decided to stop doing so, and repay the money from this year, as a gesture, saying the whole allowance was "completely discredited".
Just as important, Naidu gave all South Asians hope that even a thoroughly discredited political establishment can, on occasion, produce leaders with vision and vigor.
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The Washington Establishment is confusing the issue with their outdated, discredited, Keynesian economics holding that the sequestration spending cuts also going into effect next year as part of the 2011 debt limit deal are contractionary as well.
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