It was a life-affirming, if inappropriate, lesson.
As the greatest Republican, Abraham Lincoln, once affirmed: "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it.
Under our law, of course, a decision of a trial court reaching a correct result will be affirmed if it is supportable under any theory, even if an appellate court disagrees with the trial court's reasoning.
They would have been no less affirmed if the pope had written an encyclical based on the commission's recommendations instead of the one he actually wrote, differing from them.
Still, Kunz affirms: "If its priced right, it'll sell".
Cf. Section 4. Should read: "This impossibility, then, is indeed rightly affirmed if it is attributed to the lack of means of nature, but on no account should it be applied to the divine majesty".
As John Hare affirms, "If we are to endorse wholeheartedly the long-term shape of our lives, we have to see this shape as consistent with our happiness" (1996, 88).
As a general rule, the proposition I express in speaking as I do is what you'd be affirming if you responded with Yes, that's so; what you'd be denying if you responded with No, that's not so; what you'd be questioning if you responded with Is that so?
