The agency is not required to follow the advice of its committees, but generally does.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Does it follow from that that their experiences should not be taken as evidence of what the afterlife is like?

难道这就意味着,他们的经验不能成为证据证明,来生是什么样的吗

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"That does not mean they cannot follow the law." In announcing her nomination, President Obama highlighted Sotomayor's life story as a child of Puerto Rican parents whose childhood years were spent in public housing in New York.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31