"If there is no end to sanctions, there will not be an agreement," President Rouhani affirmed back in April, echoing remarks made by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
To win support, the army has been asking county commissioners to sign a "community covenant" to affirm backing for the presence of the troops and army-driven economic development.
I still think I'll affirm back to old school with albums and I think in terms of the sequence, it's really important, and therefore the first song is very important.
He recently started a payments company, Affirm, backed by several former colleagues.
Consider millennials' liking for instant online credit, a market dominated by companies such as Affirm (backed by Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures) and Klarna AB, a Swedish "unicorn" with a valuation that tops $2.25bn (and with Sequoia's Mike Moritz on its board), alongside PayPal.
The company said it was neither affirming nor backing away from that earlier position.
In a speech last week, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo affirmed her backing for the "rhythm method" of natural contraception that critics say is unreliable, complicated to follow and requires unusual restraint on the part of husbands.
But the pitch of anger in this debate proves there is much more to it than that.France and Germany were incensed when, two weeks ago, Britain, Italy, Spain and a clutch of other European governments (followed by ten more from eastern and south-eastern Europe) affirmed their backing for America.
"One photo of the finish actually showed Affirmed looking back at Alydar, the white of his right eye forward and the eye rolled back like Moby Dick staring at Ahab lashed to his back," Nack wrote.
Only 11 horses have won all three races, and the last horse to do it was Affirmed, way back in 1978.
She affirmed that she backs the president "100percentt" when it comes to preventing the entry of a caravan of asylum-seekers and migrants marching toward the U.S. "I do not want our borders overrun.
