Sentence examples for affirm status from inspiring English sources
"Golf in America seems to have aspirational qualities that seem to affirm status achieved.
Guilt, shame and pride are considered self-conscious emotions [ 21] and as such they contribute to promoting the stability of social hierarchies and affirm status roles [ 22].
The newly wealthy are often desperate to affirm their status by conspicuously consuming the favoured brands of the already rich.
For the Hoyas (22-9), the victory helped affirm their status as the biggest enigmas in college basketball.
To commemorate their brother's new job, and affirm his status as a big cheese, Philip and Ron sent him an 18-pound piece of provolone.
Those pictures were meant to affirm her status as a sophisticated and respectable "free woman and as a woman in control of her image".
Thus, I argue that campuses cannot merely affirm the status quo; neither can we as undocumented persons nor our accomplices let that happen.
Ms. Mitchell conceded that PBS also needed to affirm its status as a leading television outlet for certain kinds of programming like science, nature, children's, cultural and public affairs programs, all of which have been usurped to some degree by channels that cater to specific audiences.
Change has never come from those who affirm the status quo, but from those who challenge it.
Demanding that cinema be morally responsible or socially redeeming is asking art to continually affirm the status quo by indoctrinating us on how to live, discrediting the viewer's own intellect and free will.
