Sentence examples for affirm only from inspiring English sources

They affirm only that it has met specific criteria set by that security service.

Even the boy's father, returning home late and checking on him in his sleep, can affirm only that he "sure looks enough" like Charlie.

In this case, Obama argued that the changes Congress made to the bill affirm only authorities that the Bush and Obama administrations have already claimed in fighting terrorism.

What incentive is there to do gender differently if we continue to reward, celebrate, and affirm only the gender conforming?

The complete story, he insists, is that the central role of images was fully affirmed only because it had been challenged by the iconoclasts; and they, in turn, were responding to the rise of Islam, which seemed to combine military success with antipathy to representational sacred art.That linkage may be well founded, but it is impossible to prove.

Hence they validate (A7), which affirms all self-identity statements, not merely the weaker (A7−), which affirms only self-identities between nonempty terms.

The scorers were reluctant to declare that any of the research options could lead to a 50% reduction or more in burden for any disease; of the 515 opportunities to answer this question, it was affirmed only 25 times (scorers could abstain).

Of those, 14% (N=30) affirmed only one item and were therefore classified as marginally food secure.

Staff open-ended comments were fewer and more reserved, affirming only the convenience factor.

Our reasoning that waist circumference might contribute to an increased risk of clinical hypothyroidism by predicting existing subclinical hypothyroidism is only a notional argument and can be affirmed only by longitudinal studies.

For many, wearing "African" wax print is a means to not only affirm but also reinstate their identity in foreign lands.