Perhaps this was a smart strategy: instead of arguing about economics and ideology, the Occupiers could affirm, instead, their unanimous commitment to freedom of assembly.
Buddhists rejected the notion of substances with changing qualities, and affirmed instead that change was logically impossible.
Her idea was both impractical and reckless, they told her; any challenge to Plessy would result in the Supreme Court affirming it instead.
It affirms instead that they're about empowerment for women, particularly when it comes to battling unrealistic ideals, helping with body acceptance, and empowering women of color.
What (CPP) affirms instead is that there is only one actual past, but there would have been a different past if Jones acted differently at t2. (CPP) also does not require the assumption that what Jones does at t2 causes God to have the belief he has at t1.
59vb) he affirms that instead of signifying simple objects, concrete accidental terms signify aggregates of substance and along with the accidental form primarily signified by the term itself.
In a 2007 decision, he upheld Michigan's 1996 voter identification law – which does offer voters the ability to sign an affidavit affirming their identity instead of showing photo identification – calling it a "reasonable, nondiscriminatory restriction" and arguing that identification did not, in fact, amount to a poll tax.
Shortly after the above quote, Kant identifies the Highest Good as the object that fulfils pure practical reason's quest; but rather than declaring it to be an illusion and cautioning us against affirming it, he instead launches into a defense of it and of the Postulates necessary for its realization.
Several reasons for the change of mind were given, including threatened sponsor withdrawal, possible lawsuits, and "moral grounds"; Baxter denied that sponsor pressure caused the drop, instead affirming that "the shootings are still a very touchy subject, and rightly so.
