Sentence examples for affirming as from inspiring English sources

In its place, Lotze substituted for this creation of pure thought a kind of linguistic contextualism: instead of affirmation of a particular concept, affirming, as an act, belongs to "nothing but a proposition in which the content of the notion is brought into relation with that of another" (Micro, II, p. 582).

To be sure, this news doesn't seem as delectable as People's Sexiest Man Alive or as snugly affirming as Time's Person of the Year.

Historical consciousness produced by turns theories of literary progress and primitivistic theories affirming, as one critic put it, that "barbarous" times are the most favourable to the poetic spirit.

Photograph: Christophe Karaba/EPA Facebook Twitter Pinterest This photograph of a little girl skipping in a Christian neighbourhood of Islamabad in Pakistan is poignantly life affirming as the country's Christian community mourns those killed by suicide bombers at the weekend.

Yet he, too, was able to take inspiration from Christianity, affirming as he did that a faith that had a man being tortured on a cross as its central emblem couldn't be entirely misleading in its overall take on life.

Affirming, as an alternative to swearing, was introduced by the Parliamentary Oaths Act of 1866, but did not at first apply to atheists or agnostics.

I feel affirmed as a married man by what's happened here in San Francisco".

Vigorously-strummed guitar chords are affirmed as just the ticket by a slightly demented shriek of "Yeah!

They affirm together the faith that becomes increasingly difficult for the individual believer himself to affirm as genuinely his own faith.

As the dominant flavor of money used in business worldwide, the dollar has once again been affirmed as the global reserve currency.

(It's a Trick Question)" (news article, Feb. 21) needlessly alarms consumers about a packaging system that the Food and Drug Administration has affirmed as safe three separate times.