It had everything: not only drama but also, implicitly, an affirmation of family values.
What came next was an affirmation of core values: proud-hearted songs by Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band, along with "Still Doin' Time," a hit for George Jones.
The first half of the show was an affirmation of bedrock values, with some of the sturdiest songs from the Duane Allman era: "Statesboro Blues," "Revival," "Don't Keep Me Wonderin,' " "Done Somebody Wrong".
According to Lev Gudkov, a sociologist and the director of the Levada Center, a polling and research organization in Moscow, Brezhnev introduced a "pompous and ceremonial" official history of the war, as an "affirmation of nationalist values," in which the state was all powerful and victory was "presented as the realization of a single plan of the Communist Party".
When she signed up for a practicum that required her to counsel clients, she told her professors that she would not be able to counsel gay clients and still conform to the program protocol that requires an affirmation of client values.
Only after the popularity of the film was well-established did conservatives embrace the film as an affirmation of traditional values.
The White House announced the nomination in December, and Tillerson's staff said the move was an affirmation of the value of professional diplomats.
The success of the tournament — not just the fact that the American women took home the trophy but that they did it in front of packed stadiums and record millions of television viewers — was an affirmation of the value of Title IX.
Her saying "yes" was an affirmation of the value of play amidst the many demands of work.
Today, 17 years later, being at the Stonewall designation instilled in her an affirmation of her value and place in our country and as a member of the LGBTQ rights movement.
Brown's speech was perceived as an affirmation of "core Labour values", and it even had a visionary bit on the reduction of developing world debt (cue G7 summit: puff of smoke, initiative disappears!) but Gordon and Tony were united on a "leave the higher earners alone" fiscal policy while John Major was still in Downing Street.
