Sentence examples for affirmed the values from inspiring English sources

To the black world, Rainey's outspoken popular music — with its combination of cynicism, sorrow, and sass — offered warmth as well as redress; it made her both a mother and a kind of priestess, "a celebrant," as Ralph Ellison called Rainey's protegée and competitor Bessie Smith, "who affirmed the values of the group and man's ability to deal with chaos".

Society would affirm the value of volunteering in the same way the Family and Medical Leave Act affirmed the value of the family.

Koedinger counters that "many other studies, mostly positive," have affirmed the value of the Carnegie Learning program.

A report from Moody's Investors Service affirmed the value of the company's potential for international expansion.

While Mr. Summers strongly rejected divestment, he affirmed the value of open debate and said he was not taking sides.

In sometimes soaring language, Justice Kennedy, writing for the court, affirmed the value of dual state and federal sovereignty.

I was slow to gauge its importance, beyond agreeing with Roberta Smith, of the Times, that it affirmed the value of having artists curate shows from museum collections.

In releasing the task force's updated guidelines on breast cancer screening, which affirmed the value of regular mammography screening for women aged 40 to 69, Tommy Thompson, the health and human services secretary, was acting responsibly.

Among its findings, the study reports that in 1995 and in 1999, overwhelming majorities affirmed the value of being Jewish; large majorities regarded the Torah as either God's actual or inspired word, and majorities declared a strong allegiance to Israel.

But the U.K. parliament today affirmed the value of a separate science and technology committee.

Only last month the Munich Regional Court affirmed the value of another of Qualcomm's cutting-edge patents against Apple's infringement and ordered a ban on the import and sale of impacted iPhones in Germany.