Sentence examples for affirmed only from inspiring English sources

The complete story, he insists, is that the central role of images was fully affirmed only because it had been challenged by the iconoclasts; and they, in turn, were responding to the rise of Islam, which seemed to combine military success with antipathy to representational sacred art.That linkage may be well founded, but it is impossible to prove.

The scorers were reluctant to declare that any of the research options could lead to a 50% reduction or more in burden for any disease; of the 515 opportunities to answer this question, it was affirmed only 25 times (scorers could abstain).

Of those, 14% (N=30) affirmed only one item and were therefore classified as marginally food secure.

Our reasoning that waist circumference might contribute to an increased risk of clinical hypothyroidism by predicting existing subclinical hypothyroidism is only a notional argument and can be affirmed only by longitudinal studies.

Even the boy's father, returning home late and checking on him in his sleep, can affirm only that he "sure looks enough" like Charlie.

By affirming only the narrow right to air my views, rather than helping the community to grapple with its intense response, an unfortunate message was made plain: Certain ideas are too dangerous to be heard at Yale.

The Court may affirm only such findings of guilty, and the sentence or such part or amount of the sentence, as the Court finds correct in law and fact and determines, on the basis of the entire record, should be approved.

Hence they validate (A7), which affirms all self-identity statements, not merely the weaker (A7−), which affirms only self-identities between nonempty terms.

He needed to affirm only one to uphold the revocation.

Staff open-ended comments were fewer and more reserved, affirming only the convenience factor.

It seemed obvious that this affiliation be not only affirmed, but celebrated.