Sentence examples for affirms in from inspiring English sources

This provision simply affirms in statute the arguments used by President Obama's administration to justify its detention policies.

Historical practice may point, as the majority opinion affirms, in one clear direction, but it sure isn't the direction we're going.

She looks great — as she herself often affirms in her stand-up and talk show — but there is no artifice, no fluffing for a newspaper interview.

Select Medical's board affirms in its proxy that its audit committee members have the required financial or accounting expertise, and calls them "financially literate".

In short, the expression aesthetic judgment seems to be a contradiction in terms, denying in the first term precisely that reference to rational considerations that it affirms in the second.

I don't doubt Haneke's sincerity when he affirms in interviews the personal and compassionate roots of the story the sufferings of his ninety-two-year-old aunt, who had wanted him to help her commit suicide.

The last was Affirmed in 1978.

Both are valid and affirming in their own perverse ways.

What was it, Affirmed in '78 the last time?

The verdict and sentence were affirmed in another trial years later.

But those are the rules, and they were affirmed in a referendum not so long ago.