To its credit, this U.S. administration has repeatedly affirmed the centrality of international justice to U.S. foreign policy.
Yet across the half century that separated them they each affirmed the centrality of connecting Americans to their democratic heritage.
Both the UN Millennium Summit and the General Assembly Special Session on Children affirmed the centrality of young people's participation in development when they endorsed previously agreed-to targets on child poverty, education and health, including the goal of halving the proportion of people living in abject poverty by 2015.
In 1962 he became dean and quickly won undergraduate praise, in part for affirming the College's centrality to the University.
Mr. Haring seems to have been publicly affirming the vitality of sex and its centrality to gay identity, and, with every suggestive squiggle and radiant line, having a lot of fun doing so.
The Scarborough prize affirms the centrality of this field in American literary and cultural studies," she said.
He added, "Were Obama to approach this in an ideological way, talking about this as 'We are now going to affirm the importance and centrality of government in the future of the nation,' I think the public would walk away".
It marks the slide down the slippery slope toward exactly what the Bush team should be keen to avoid: presidential engagement to affirm the PLO leader's centrality and a focus on big-picture negotiations to obscure the messy details of a cease-fire whose responsibilities Arafat has never fulfilled.
Near the end of Branch's fourteen-year saga of a nation alternately affirming and denying the centrality of race, there is a telling moment.
Attracted by the story it appears to tell – most of all by the connection with Mandela – commentators have rushed to portray the book as a potent symbol of intellectual freedom, a burning torch in the dark, affirming Shakespeare's centrality to the fight in apartheid's most notorious penitentiary.
"Affirm the relationship".
