Sentence examples for affirm its existence from inspiring English sources

Last week was a big one for King's: the state's Board of Regents, a sort of Jedi Council for the galaxy of Albany, was scheduled to vote on whether to extend the college's accreditation — to affirm its existence, really.

Thus, when we are in the grip of an emotion, we tend to see those facts that affirm its existence and are resistant to facts that negate it.

So the analysis of being reveals two meanings of existence: the first affirms or establishes the existence of something; the second expresses, without affirming its existence, the reality by virtue of which something is what it is, namely, its essence.

Senior members of the Church of Scientology have several times publicly denied or minimized the importance of the Xenu story, but others have affirmed its existence.

ExxonMobil, which has in the past pursued and funded efforts to propagate the view that climate change isn't occurring at all, has taken the unusual step of publishing an entire report affirming its existence.

Facebook denied its existence.

But we must remember that it's possible to affirm the existence of God with your lips and deny his existence with your life.

It simply allows you to affirm your existence, and to feel you have released something, which both seem rather paltry.

It is the judgment and opinion in that appeal which is before us here: American-Arab Anti-DiscRenonation Committee v. Reno, 119 F.3d 1997 (CA9 1997), which we shall call “AADC II.” It affirmed the existence of jurisdiction under §1252, see id., at 1374, and reaching the merits of the injunctions, again affirmed the District Court, id., at 1374—1376.

In this way our metaphysician would have endorsed a fairly robust ontological scheme.[2] Throughout quite a long period of time, Chisholm would have maintained that the imagined ontological scheme violates Occam's Razor, since it affirms the existence of more fundamental kinds of things than we really need.

As Hubbard argued, "No culture in the history of the world, save the thoroughly depraved ones, has failed to affirm the existence of a Supreme Being.