Sentence examples for affirming the priority from inspiring English sources

Whereas Zhu had insisted on the priority of "pattern" over qi, (roughly, form over matter), Wang and Dai followed the Northern Song thinker Zhang Zai in affirming the priority of qi, viewing patterns as a posteriori evolutionary realizations of qi interactions.

Protestant theologians from Luther and Calvin to Karl Barth have thus affirmed the priority of faith not only to "works" but also to natural theology.

This would demonstrate middle powers' ability to set the official agenda, instead of simply affirming the list of priorities that emanates from Geneva and New York.

At the debate in Sparta, described in Book I of Thucydides' History, the Athenians affirm the priority of self-interest over morality.

Industry cared about "target validation," for instance — affirming the impact of a molecule on a disease — which was a low priority for most academic researchers.

The first linguistic theorist to affirm this priority explicitly was Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 1835), whose approach eventually culminated in the celebrated "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis," formulated by the American linguists Edward Sapir (1884 1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 1941) on the basis of their work on the diverse (and disappearing) indigenous languages of North America.

This may result in a combination of re-affirming the need to continue in some current priority areas with sharpened focus, and the need to continue striving for the achievement of existing priorities and the identification of new priorities and strategies, especially reflecting a more explicit equity focused approach within an evolving programme environment.

« Following the epidemics of poliomyelitis and measles faced by our Country, the Government of Congo put vaccination on top of the national priorities in 2012, declaring it the Year of Health», affirmed the Ministry of Health, Mr. François Ibovi.

"Affirm the relationship".

appeals panel affirmed the decision.

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision.