But in popular culture any affirmation of corpulence feels decidedly ambivalent.
[Gawker] As if we needed any affirmation that Park Slope is the stroller capital of New York, here's proof.
But any affirmation by this author will be hedged with all the barbed wire, flaming swords and red-eyed rottweilers she can summon.
This lends a tentative quality to any affirmation the protagonist may make, since what porteños proclaim so often proves to be mistaken.
He imagined himself on a bell curve of neediness: "If the x-axis goes from not requiring any affirmation to requiring a lot, I'd be slightly on the right at the top of the curve.
The concern focused on the portion of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion that dealt with the requirement that any affirmation action program be "narrowly tailored," using race as little as possible to achieve the goal of diversity.
The gesture is luminous and sure, and comes like sudden sunlight through haze, but it is also, in this score, a fabrication, a white lie -- or more, a golden, glorious lie -- and it speaks of the groundlessness in Snow White's mind, where any affirmation can only be a momentary tactic.
Thus there is no excluded middle; any affirmation and its corresponding exclusion negation are contradictories rather than contraries (see the entry on presupposition for elaboration and further details).
8. Abelardus Petrus 1970, 186: "And thus in categorical propositions, the only proper and rightly destroying contradiction to any affirmation seems to be a proposition that with a negation appended in front destroys the entire meaning, so that 'not every human is human', but not 'some human is not human' is the contradictory of 'every human is human'.
Then layered on top of that the protesting of the displays of crosses and Jewish stars in public places or any affirmation of faith whatsoever.
The present design does not allow any affirmation of cause versus effect among the factors studied, even considering that the data analyzed came from a cohort study.
