But it is unclear what motivation one would have for affirming such a position.
Their purpose is to affirm a core geopolitical position, namely, that no single country, not the United States, nor China, nor anyone else, should exercise exclusive or exclusionary control over the South China Sea.
Yet they contend that even if ghosts really do not exist, the proper dao (way) is nevertheless to affirm that they do—a position that tends to support Hansen's view that they are arguing primarily that we should promulgate and act on the teaching that ghosts exist, rather than that this teaching is true.
The natural line of response to this criticism of Darwinian re-enchantment is that, while it may be satisfying to believe that there is something not sensed or experienced directly that sustains the world through change, it is not at all clear that we are in a position to affirm the existence of this kind of thing.
This being a "populational" study, we are not in a position to affirm that the variables studied do not weigh on individual PQL perception, nor can interventions on them at the individual level be recommended.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won, and that whoever opposed this will be suppressed – a position he affirmed speaking today in Tehran.
William C. Thompson Jr., the former comptroller and 2009 Democratic candidate for mayor, said during that campaign that he thought stop-and-frisk was a valuable policing tool but that it was being overused — a position he affirmed in an interview on Tuesday.
But in 2009 the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, rejected this view, finding that "the responsibility to protect does not alter, indeed it reinforces, the legal obligations of Member States to refrain from the use of force except in conformity with the Charter," a position he affirmed on Tuesday.
Merricks (2001) takes such a position and affirms emergence as the criterion for the existence of true composites.
I love being in a position to encourage and affirm some unsung heroes those who work to make invaluable public humanities projects come alive.
