The phrase "affirmed it as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when stating that something has been confirmed or validated in a particular way or context.
Example: "The committee affirmed it as the best solution to the ongoing issue."
Alternatives: "confirmed it as" or "validated it as".
Everything you feel that you're choosing because you affirm it as good — your career, your marriage, reading The New York Times today, or even espousing reductionism — you'll have to regard intellectually as just an effect of moving and material causes.
Mark Oliver, of Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates, thinks it "reinforces an exclusive image of tennis, which affirms it as a middle-class sport for middle-class people".
We're forced either to lament or to celebrate old age, rather than simply "affirm it as a significant part of life".
Many authors have challenged Ricoeur's view by proposing a distinction between recognition (of oneself as well as of others) and "identification": Whereas we identify an X as an X without necessarily affirming it as (and because of) X, recognition requires a positive evaluation of X.
The Florida legislature responded to the execution not by eliminating the electric chair but by passing a law affirming it as the state's sole method of execution.
ANN's Theron Martin praised its "surprisingly solid" art "for a series of its era" and affirmed, "it does stand up well as high-spirited, fun-loving action fare with occasional darker overtones".
As Buffon affirmed, "It is necessary to see nothing as impossible" (33).
If, as Calman affirmed, it is necessary to make the Scottish parliament accountable by giving it responsibility for raising the tax money it spends, why make it only half responsible?
Whereas traditionally mysticism tended to devalue our life in this world, Schleiermacher's mysticism is seen as affirming it.
A person, for Nietzsche, has a Dionysian attitude toward life insofar as he affirms his life unconditionally; in particular, insofar as he affirms it including the "suffering" or other hardships it has involved.
