Sentence examples similar to affirmed instead from inspiring English sources

Though all this sounds sentimental, try affirming instead.

Perhaps this was a smart strategy: instead of arguing about economics and ideology, the Occupiers could affirm, instead, their unanimous commitment to freedom of assembly.

Aristotle also did not endorse the concept of an historical origin of the world, affirming instead the eternity of the world order.

They affirm instead an immanent notion of totality constituted by multiplicities and by parts that never reduce to a homogeneous and transcendent whole.

It affirms instead that they're about empowerment for women, particularly when it comes to battling unrealistic ideals, helping with body acceptance, and empowering women of color.

They reject something called 'either/or thinking,' which they often appear to associate with the law of the excluded middle, and affirm instead something they call 'both/and thinking,' which they suggest violates the law of noncontradiction" (pp. 35 36).

Her idea was both impractical and reckless, they told her; any challenge to Plessy would result in the Supreme Court affirming it instead.

59vb) he affirms that instead of signifying simple objects, concrete accidental terms signify aggregates of substance and along with the accidental form primarily signified by the term itself.

We were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants of its slaves were loosed from the shackles they still wear.

In a 2007 decision, he upheld Michigan's 1996 voter identification law – which does offer voters the ability to sign an affidavit affirming their identity instead of showing photo identification – calling it a "reasonable, nondiscriminatory restriction" and arguing that identification did not, in fact, amount to a poll tax.

Shortly after the above quote, Kant identifies the Highest Good as the object that fulfils pure practical reason's quest; but rather than declaring it to be an illusion and cautioning us against affirming it, he instead launches into a defense of it and of the Postulates necessary for its realization.