Affirmation statements should represent the present not the future.
The spontaneous civilian uprising against the military coup may have represented the ultimate affirmation of the popular will – but the events that followed have deepened the contradiction between Erdoğan's unquestionable democratic legitimacy and his equally indisputable authoritarian rule.
"Why do ethnic Albanians flock to join the new parties when it was the Communist Party that has enabled them to achieve their national affirmation," asked Mirko Cupic, a Serb representing the official side.
By this way, we can represent the meta-concept affirmation-denial as follows.
Perry told MTV that she chose the military plot because it represented the song, saying, "It's an affirmation of strength, so I wanted to go the strongest route I ever could".
I say that because they represent the death of the alternative dream, and we follow with the affirmation of life part".
My name is Christopher Kang, and I represent the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, a coalition of 35 national Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander organizations that support affirmation action.
For Cosmides, the award represents further affirmation for a field that she and her husband, John Tooby of Harvard, helped establish in the early 1980s.
Kenneth W. Starr, dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law, who had argued before the justices in favor of Proposition 8, said the ruling "represents a ringing judicial affirmation of the right of the people of California to amend the State Constitution at the ballot box".
Our students' affirmation of survival also represents a legacy, a legacy of resistance, from the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement forward, that must be preserved.
