The phrase "affirms target" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts where one is confirming or validating a specific goal or objective, but it requires additional context for proper understanding.
Example: "The report affirms target achievement for the quarter, indicating that we met our sales goals."
Alternatives: "confirms objective" or "validates goal".
Affirm hopes to target Millennials, who he believes are mistrustful of the current financial products out there.
Paris affirmed the financing target of $100 billion a year from public and private sources by 2020.
They were applying metal's self-affirming animosity to a target close at hand.
The company, which is buying the Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas for $7.8 billion, also affirmed its 2009 earnings target and set a 2010 goal ahead of analysts' expectations.
In Durban last year, delegates affirmed the two-degree target and, after a contentious marathon negotiating session, signed a pledge to conclude a new global climate change treaty by 2015 to take effect starting in 2020.
At its annual December outlook meeting with investors, the industrial and financial conglomerate affirmed its 2008 earnings target of $1.78 to $1.84 per share, but said it would not provide earnings guidance for next year, in a break with its prior practice.
Target recently affirmed that transgender people should use the facilities in their stores that match their gender identity.
Additionally, studies affirmed that mitochondrial-targeting interventions intended for use as an annex to mainstay pharmacological treatments also show benefits in slowing PD progression.
The most common objections — that on the temporal parts account, objects are not "wholly present" at any given time, and that on the relations-to-times account, seemingly simply properties of objects, such as Oscar having a gray muzzle, are complicated relations — do little more than affirm what their targets deny.
At the GCC summit at the end of 2007 the member states re-affirmed their commitment to the target of achieving monetary union in 2010, while stating that this would only apply to those states which were ready for such a move (Oman has already opted out).
