Sentence examples for affirm roots from inspiring English sources

Though the tycoon's generation looks back to China, Mei Lan's mother is English-educated Straits Chinese, and the often thwarted lovers gradually affirm roots in Singapore.

They are also using the strength in their growing numbers to affirm roots that were once portrayed as tragic or pitiable.

But Mexicans, particularly younger ones, are also on a quest to rediscover and affirm their roots in reaction to the surge of American products and stores inundating the country.

They were using the ketubah as a way of affirming the Jewish roots of their faith.

From the beginning of his recording career Mr. Jean, 37, has been a champion of Caribbean culture as an extended family, affirming his Haitian roots but also mingling styles from across the Americas.

At once, she abandons her existential worries and delivers many pages of confident, spacious social history, tracing and clarifying the appalling degradations of parish "relief" – as prevalent as income support – and affirming the radical, antistate roots of the Methodist church and the value of Sunday school.

In "American Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead," the band forsook freer-form jamming to affirm its folk and bluegrass roots in songs as evocative of rural Americana as those of the group's more self-consciously stately East Coast counterpart, the Band.

The court went on to re-affirm that marriage has deep roots in societies and differs from one place to another.

For its part, the festival has reacted to flagging corporate sponsorship by loudly affirming its desire to return to roots.

I don't doubt Haneke's sincerity when he affirms in interviews the personal and compassionate roots of the story the sufferings of his ninety-two-year-old aunt, who had wanted him to help her commit suicide.

At some level, we were rooting for a disaster that would affirm and justify church teachings.