He pointed out the Court's determination to discourage the evasion of these international obligations, and its repeated affirmation of The United Nations established a formal minority rights protection system as an integral part of the Plan for the Future Government of Palestine.
About the only thing the Supreme Court got right in its Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions was its repeated affirmation that transparency for political spending is critical in a functioning democracy in order for voters to make educated judgments about different messages, and to prevent corruption.
When repeated, affirmation automatically becomes the stronger thought, so it prevail over negative, anxious thoughts.
Similarly, the repeated affirmations of friendship with Sri Lanka followed a period under President Rajapaksa when Colombo had seemed distinctly warmer to China and Pakistan than to its closest neighbor.
Still, despite President Hamid Karzai's repeated affirmations of brotherhood, the relationship remains speckled with suspicion on both sides, similar to Pakistan's ties with the United States.
Bush and Blair's repeated affirmations of the essential goodness of Islam are seen as so much hot air designed to appease the uneducated masses, who, naturally, will never believe them.
(See this Harvard Business Review article. The latest plea comes from the Hamilton Project's new report on ending poverty, which notes that the U.S. offers about one-tenth the apprenticeships of other industrialized nations). Despite these repeated affirmations, the teen and young adult employment rate has plummeted over the last dozen years.
In the second place, there are "repeated affirmations … that Yahweh is the greatest and mightiest of the gods".
Perhaps through doing the repeated affirmations enough I will finally give in and just be like "OK, fuck it, I'm not that bad".
(Only a few countries allocate the equivalent of 0.7%% of Gross Domestic Product to international assistance, despite repeated affirmations of this commitment).
I also tried meditation, repeating affirmations to myself and I created a morning routine that included a lot of the above strategies.
