As an affirmation of the federal agency's authority over the states, the E.P.A.'s victory was in some respects an awkward one.
This was meant as affirmation of his authority, but before the gauchos could grasp what was happening the gob of phlegm had flown from his lips; they barely had time to jump.
But, as a shorthand for the affirmation of the congressional Republicans' ideological authority, it was not far wrong.
A narcissist with insatiable needs for power, control, and, very often fame, the leader seeks affirmation of supreme authority through alignment with public figures and celebrities, achieving large numbers of recruits, and amassing private fiefdoms.
What took place was but a formal affirmation of fare increases by the authority's board members, some of whom may well not have seen the inside of a subway car since the Lindsay administration.
Unlike some Anglo-Catholics, however, he did not think it sufficient to confront the aggressive secularism of the time with a blunt affirmation of the church's supernatural life and apostolic authority.
And the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said that Trump's decision to end cost-sharing subsidies was a "monumental affirmation of Congress's authority".
There it will be interesting to see how Antonin Scalia rules, considering his previous affirmation of Congress's "authority to enact a regulation of interstate commerce" and its possession of "every power needed to make that regulation effective" in a case about medical marijuana in California.
He erected a commemorative stone at the battle site that he named Ankazonorona, designating it the site where newly enthroned kings would stand to receive their first expression of hasina (homage, affirmation of authority) from their subjects.
It is hard to imagine a more dramatic affirmation of the Buddha-nature teachings in China, or a more pointed rejection of the identification of Buddhist authority with Buddhist literacy.
The fluctuations in quality is itself a kind of affirmation of the whole idea of quality.
