Sentence examples for affirming the statement from inspiring English sources

But as the mayor has tried to explain her thinking, Gaylor said her group felt that she was just affirming the statement about religion and government that they had the biggest problem with.

Participants' responses to statement 16 ('Survival of the fittest' means basically that "only the strong survive"') were somewhat split with 40.8% (n = 31) affirming the statement and 59.2% (n = 45) selecting the misconception.

Last spring she was asked to affirm the statement again after she suggested that the college curriculum should include sexuality as a facet of diversity.

The Court of Appeals affirmed, stressing that effective confrontation of a witness who has allegedly made an out-of-court statement implicating the defendant was possible only if the witness affirmed the statement as his.

For the presentation of the data, the "strongly agree" and "agree" responses were combined to give the proportions of teachers who affirmed the statements and the "strongly disagree" and "disagree" responses were combined to give the proportions of teachers who dissented with the statements.

There are two kinds of future-oriented affirmations you can use to work toward goals: "I can" statements: Write a statement affirming the fact that you can achieve your goal(s).

Attestation: A statement affirming the correctness of a document's contents or the existence of a document.

The Fed and the Treasury attempted to assuage concerns by releasing a joint statement affirming the Fed's sole responsibility for price stability.

Certification: A statement affirming the legal status of a document or of a legal procedure contained within the document or by the document's existence.

Mr. Tillerson said that he had just spoken with his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and that the State Department would issue a statement affirming the British findings.

Correction: July 13 , 2000 Thursday An article on Monday about the opening of an international conference on AIDS in South Africa misspelled the surname in some copies of a scientist who signed a statement affirming the link between H.I.V. and AIDS.