In 1995, he won re-election in a landslide; it amounted to a democratic affirmation of authoritarianism and left advocates of democracy worried.
The maple leaf's Liberal advocates saw it as an affirmation that Canada had outgrown its status as a British colony.
But abortion rights advocates applauded the decision as an affirmation of the privacy rights of women.
At the heart of the McKinsey vision is a process that the War for Talent advocates refer to as "differentiation and affirmation".
The prize is an enormous psychological boost for China's beleaguered reform movement and an affirmation of the two decades Mr. Liu has spent advocating peaceful political change in the face of unremitting hostility from the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
His declaration of support for the planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero was a stirring affirmation that the mayor would champion the city's diversity, advocates said.
Advocates for tighter laws called the decision a resounding affirmation.
As I shared stories from my book of people planting gardens around churches, installing solar panels on sanctuaries and advocating for renewable energy policies, I saw parishioners nodding in affirmation, even as they grieved this tragic death.
But what all of these acts of affirmation, big and small, communicate to your son is that you are his advocate and that your love is abiding and unconditional.
Self-confidence doesn't come from endless affirmation — any more than it does from neglect, Tiger Mom punishments or the firm European indifference advocated in new books like "Bringing up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting".
To her, advocating for medical marijuana is not a contradiction of her faith but an affirmation of it.
