The election officers shall be sworn or affirmed not to inquire or disclose how any elector shall have voted".
There, one finds a rousing, and sadly still necessary, defense of sex education in America: The best preparation that can be made to meet the inevitable crises in the life of youth, we affirm, is not to avoid the issues, not to trust to the exemptions of innocence, not to feel that somehow the younger person will stumble through as others have, but to take the full measure of the situation.
The officials of the Marathon, meanwhile, were something less than Saroyan-like in their attitude, since it turned out that, at a minimum, he had switched bibs with another runner — and the business of bib-switching is not one they view fondly, a bib being to a runner what a passport is to a traveller, a key identifying (and security-affirming) document, not to be passed around like a napkin.
Blandly to affirm not just one Reagan ideologue, but, if any other Justices were to retire, conceivably as many as 5, would be very difficult to reconcile with anything the Constitution permits or requires.
"Now is the time to affirm not only the immorality of nuclear weapons, but the immorality of their possession, thereby clearing the road to abolition," the Vatican said.
Having at least one other person in the decision-making loop who has to positively affirm not just the president's identity but has to also agree that the decision would not be a bad thing.
This week's joint statement pointedly noted that North Korea had re-affirmed its commitment not to transfer nuclear technology and know-how.
RRW re-affirming their policy not to select players on central contracts comes after talks aimed at resolving the long-running dispute between the regions and WRU over funding and player-release stalled.
We affirm not only replication stress but also the targeting of DNA replication fork proteins themselves as potential targets for anticancer therapeutic development.
To believe that the disabled possess a special soulfulness is not to affirm their humanity, but to deny it.
