Sentence examples for affirmation rather than from inspiring English sources
And as to such individuals, the Massachusetts law clearly permits an affirmation rather than an oath.
It's one of the ideas of 'Yes Is More': you can be critical through affirmation rather than negation.
It would become a work of affirmation rather than nostalgia, and its musical genre would be hard to define.
(Witnesses and officials can opt to make an affirmation rather than take an oath; the affirmation omits reference to God and uses the words "I affirm" rather than "I swear".
It turns out that I was so relieved to have just been accepted when I transitioned a decade ago that I was afraid of pushing the envelope and asking for affirmation rather than being satisfied just with acceptance.
In Orientalism, Said argued that much of the Western study of Islamic civilization was political intellectualism meant for European self-affirmation, rather than for objective intellectual enquiry and academic study of Eastern cultures.
All of their dishes have "positive affirmations" rather than "names," so when you order you're supposed to be like "I am beautiful" to the waiter, and then the waiter will look at you all sincere and go "you ARE beautiful!" *shudder*.
All of their dishes have "positive affirmations" rather than "names", so when you order you're meant to be like "I am beautiful" to the waiter, and then the waiter will look at you all sincere and go "you ARE beautiful!" *shudder*.
This technique is a client-centred approach, with reflective listening and positive affirmations rather than direct questioning, persuasion, or advice-giving [ 28].
Franklin Pierce chose the affirmation option rather than swearing an oath.
Refused's lyrics mix hardcore's pugnacious self-affirmation — "Rather be forgotten than remembered for giving in" — with a streak of economic anger that the Occupy movement might recognize: "I got a bone to pick with capitalism and a few to break," proclaimed the opening song of the album and set, "Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Scull".
