He quotes Clinton telling a friend that the choice was a matter of principle: it affirmed that she would continue to be "a person in my own right".
Her parents affirmed that she would not want to have tube feeding continued under such circumstances.
Her application for citizenship was denied in 1924 because she refused to affirm that she would bear arms in defense of the United States.
But this year, her contract came with an addendum: She was asked to affirm that she would not boycott Israel during the term of the contract.
"I think that's very important for the public to know, that today, the secretary of education, before this committee, refused to affirm that she would put forward a program that would ban discrimination based on LGBTQ status of students or would ban discrimination based on religion," he said.
Ewing said the study affirmed what she'd seen at beaches in Northern California, including severe erosion at Half Moon Bay and Pacifica State Beach.
"My assumptions about the formula for athletic success, and the essence of distance running, would be both affirmed and shattered". She would soon learn that success can come not when you have everything under control, but instead when you let go.
In 2012, Mayor Stephanie Rannouncedlane announced an initiative to attract 10,000 families to the city, and, in sharp contrast to the rhetoric coming out of many other cities at the time, she affirmed that immigrants would be one of the main demographics targeted.
Indeed, I can imagine she would have affirmed without a quiver of doubt that, no matter how electronic and global the city might one day become, it still has to be "made" – and therein lies the importance of place.
