I'm glad I did it because it affirmed what I already thought: I'm not ready".
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, the heroes of a famous legend that, because it affirmed the resurrection of the dead, had a lasting popularity in all Christendom and in Islam during the Middle Ages.
These were the Personalists (Pudgalavādins), who were so called because they affirmed the ultimate existence of the person as something named and conceptualized in dependence on the psychophysical elements.
This was a startling -- and good -- development because it affirmed the rights of consumers to drive their own healthcare decisions and procedures.
The obvious consequence of these rules is that, with the only exception of insolubilia, which are called false not because they signify the false, but because they affirm themselves to be false or not to be true, all the other kinds of proposition are true if and only if what they signify is true, and false if and only if what they signify is false (ibidem, p. 64).
A recent paper in BMC Biology reflecting a current skirmish on the placing of turtles [ 2] leaves our image unaffected not only because it affirms their placing among the archosaurs [ 3], but because turtles do not appear on our tree at all (see the addition to the relevant branch in Figure 2).
But Democrats had a fiery response, too, some because they saw the charges as unjust, some because the charges affirmed their disappointment, and others because they believed that, whatever Clinton's flaws might have been, Brazile's account pointlessly and unfairly divided the Party's forces just as close races were being fought around the country, particularly the gubernatorial race in Virginia.
"Some say that even collaborating with people from other faiths is a disservice — because it affirms the validity of their beliefs," he said.
Organized labor reveres the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 because it affirms the right of unions to strike, boycott and picket.
At the same time, however, the report is being received with hope in some quarters because it affirms that 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible — if emissions stopped today, for instance, the planet would not reach that temperature.
