The phrase "affirm the principles" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express support or endorsement of certain fundamental beliefs or values.
Example: "In our meeting, we will affirm the principles that guide our organization and ensure everyone is aligned with our mission."
Alternatives: "support the principles" or "uphold the principles."
Lynn Snyder Berkeley, Calif., March 2 , 2009 To the Editor: As the final head of the Faith-Based and Community Initiative under President George W. Bush, I want to affirm the principles we followed: Direct federal dollars must never finance proselytizing or other religious activities.
"We do not believe that any of us must endorse the contents of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons in order to affirm the principles for which they stand, or applaud the staff's bravery in holding fast to those values in the face of life and death threats".
The stability of the international political order will thus be stability for the right reasons (and not a mere modus vivendi), since each people will affirm the principles as its first-best option whatever the international balance of power might become.
These votes merely affirm the principles that bind us together regardless of our political leanings.
He and James Baker had a coalition of 36 countries for Desert Storm to affirm the principle that one country can't arbitrarily invade another.
Still, despite, or maybe because of, the reactions, there turned out to be a genuine, if fairly conflicted, desire on the part of the French to affirm the principle of secularism in their public schools.
It is to do what American diplomats and the Obama administration have done, and what the George W. Bush administration did before them whenever threats are levied against free speech: to deny religious radicals the heckler's veto, and to affirm the principle of the universal right of free speech -- even when exercises of that right are offensive.
The deal affirms the principles of free speech and multiparty democracy, but it also appears to declare Mr. Mugabe's disastrous land reform untouchable.
A bit of Ben & Jerry's attitude, in short, is being transferred to a $45 billion company, affirming the principles that Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield have advocated since they started their company in a Vermont gas station in 1978.
The charter affirms the principles set forth in the International Bill of Human Rights including, for example, the right to liberty and security of persons, equality of persons before the law, protection of persons from torture, the right to own private property, freedom to practice religion, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
