Sentence examples for affirm the limits from inspiring English sources

Stories grounded in the landscape also loom large, in customs such as choosing the gleaning queen when the harvest is brought in, or bumping heads against boundary stones to affirm the limits of the local world.

Kant affirms that the limits of reason established in The Critique of Pure Reason would silence all objections to morality and religion "in Socratic fashion, namely, by the clearest proof of the ignorance of the objectors" (1781, 1787, 30. See also 530 531).

Natasha needs her husband to affirm her saintliness by testing the limits of her love; Stephen needs his wilful wife to set down rather absurd boundaries for him to transgress.

But "The Limits of Control" affirms that at 56 he remains open as ever to experimentation, perhaps even to new ways of making and seeing movies.

The Court affirmed the constitutionality of limits on campaign contributions, stating that they "serve[d] the basic governmental interest in safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process without directly impinging upon the rights of individual citizens and candidates to engage in political debate and discussion".

In a 64-page opinion, Judge Sifton rejected the claim that the mayor and the Council, in replacing the two-term limit with a three-term maximum, infringed on the rights of voters who had twice affirmed the two-term limit.

The studies' findings affirm the benefits of regulatory efforts aimed at limiting exposure to both ozone and PM2.5.

"Affirming the $1,000 limit," the senator said, "is a major, major thing.

A compromise ruling might be to affirm the narrow ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down Prop 8 but limited the scope of the ruling to California.

Justice Scalia went out of his way to affirm the constitutionality of the pre-1984 federal system, which allowed judges to give sentences within wide statutory limits.

"Affirm the relationship".