The phrase "affirmation against" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing a statement or declaration that opposes something, but it is not standard.
Example: "The lawyer presented an affirmation against the allegations made by the prosecution."
Alternatives: "statement opposing" or "declaration against".
Irony — postmodern or any other — is a brief against affirmation, against the unsophisticated embrace of positive (unqualified) values.
"Vieques is a symbol for national affirmation against the United States," said Juan García Passalacqua, a political analyst.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 72, who received an unexpected boost from the Nobel committee last week, was seeking a more domestic affirmation against a man who was once one of Europe's premier soccer players, George Weah, the vice-presidential candidate on the leading opposition ticket.
The amount of heavy petting between indie rock and R. & B. in recent years might have sent Pavement and Brandy into a tailspin, but, for all the posturing, some brilliant concoctions have arisen: Frank Ocean and Alex G's "Self Control" arrived as an affirmation against skeptics that called it a "fad" three years ago.
It is rooted in self-affirmation against a conformist and normative system..
— JON PARELES Bon Jovi has a big repertory of benefit-ready arena rockers: broad, vague, surging strokes of self-affirmation against the odds like "It's My Life," "Wanted: Dead or Alive," the unconquerable "Livin' on a Prayer" and — joined by Bruce Springsteen in what's fast becoming a Jersey brotherhood — "Who Says You Can't Go Home".
Both versions make the same fundamental affirmations against the Arian heresy that denied the equality of the Father and the Son, asserting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is homoousios ("of one substance") with the Father.
In a 1936 lecture, he noted, "For me, the essence of Surrealism was an affirmation of life against all caricatures".
Still, the authenticity was always balanced against affirmation: Cody's arrival on the scene in the immediate aftermath of the re-enacted version of Little Big Horn converted a debacle into what felt like a victory.
In recent months a quartet of worthy standard-bearers has emerged to press the claims of disputatiousness over mutual affirmation and self-loathing against self-love.
There was no appeal to Canadian solidarity in the face of an attack on "our country, our values, on our society"; there was no affirmation to "remain vigilant against those at home and abroad who would harm us".
