It was the most Obama had said on climate change for some time, and it was a stronger affirmation of the science underlying climate change than Obama has offered on other occasions.
Could there be a stronger affirmation that, while we may disagree about how to solve our problems or even what our problems are, underneath it all we are truly One Nation Under God, even though we may disagree about whom God is supporting this year or whether He exists at all or where He goes to church on Sundays?
Oddly, the most physical insubstantial work in the exhibition is a strong affirmation of endurance.
His fundamental point, he said on Sunday, was that there should be a strong "affirmation of whatever decision women decide to make".
The exposition continues with modulating passages of free counterpoint — the episodes — and further appearances of the subject, and ends with a strong affirmation of the tonic key.
The festival was a strong affirmation that you can fill a large symphony hall for two solid weeks with people eager to experience 20th-century classical music.
"The garden was designed for contemplation and healing, as well as a strong affirmation of a vision of New Jersey in which Christian, Jew and Muslim live together as citizens," said the museum's director, Mary Sue Sweeney Price.
The majority opinion, by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., was a strong affirmation of the importance of freedom of expression, even in the face of substantial societal condemnation of the horrific nature of some of the speech involved.
The Problems That Remain Dr. Fletcher, head of the embattled NASA, said he would like to have President Reagan make a strong affirmation of the importance of a sustained national commitment of "will and resources" to space.
Dr. Val Giddings, vice president for food and agriculture at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group of hundreds of biotech companies, said, "This is a strong affirmation of the academy's previous reports and an emphatic reaffirmation of what the industry has been saying for years, that these products are safe and subject to more regulatory scrutiny than any others in history".
When Alessandro Michele of Gucci included male models wearing silk, pussy-bow blouses, and women wearing mannish tailoring in his March debut, he described it as "a pure recording of something that is happening around us: a strong affirmation of freedom, beyond cataloguing and labelling".
