Sentence examples for affirms itself as from inspiring English sources

The Godfather is a temptation of Christ for Nietzschean times – when the Don is dead, will-to-power affirms itself as a "yes!" to criminal life.

In the context of the 21st century global politics -- as the Chinese renaissance affirms itself as the world's major factor of change -- the apprehension it generates around China and beyond, in the West, has to be defeated before it induces the follies of confrontation.

In the centuries since French celebrities began washing up on its shores, Russia has used them to affirm itself as a center of European culture, as well as to poke its finger in the eye of Western nations.

"It is not that Islam poses a problem in the sense that it is a dangerous religion, but in as far as it wants to affirm itself as a religion of the Republic," reads some of the quotes from the controversial book.

Paradoxically, our study affirms this finding as well.

Google's Richard Salgado affirmed that the company sees itself as a technology platform, not a media company or newspaper.

The Supreme Court affirmed this position as recently as 2000, in Bush v. Gore.

Negative community needs enemies--it needs scapegoats--in order to sustain itself as a community and affirm its own honor.

The staff (rather implausibly) affirms this as a positive, a prophylactic against the paparazzi.

It affirms race as the primary basis of identity and re-establishes the color line in American society.

This exhibition affirms Renoir as a great landscape painter, even if his attention was frequently diverted elsewhere.