Sentence examples for both affirmed and from inspiring English sources

Every year, he claims to expect nothing from the team, and every year, he's both affirmed and bitterly disappointed.

In subsequent days administration officials both affirmed and denied that there was new evidence of Libyan-backed terrorism, or that a new confrontation was in the offing.

He cites the potlatch rituals of Northwest Native Americans, in which leading members of the tribe both affirmed and atoned for their standing by spectacularly splurging their wealth.

Fans trace the trajectory of an animated tennis ball and clap in rhythm, oohing and aahing at challenges both affirmed and denied.

Wastefulness as a tool or a weapon". He cites the potlatch rituals of Northwest Native Americans, in which leading members of the tribe both affirmed and atoned for their standing by spectacularly splurging their wealth.

The colonial military labor of Cubans and Philippine islanders both affirmed and challenged the claims of American political and military leaders that the United States practiced a liberal and benevolent form of colonial and neo-colonial rule.

It explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japan's cultural authority.

But Clayton, like many club goers, embraces the idea of music as a zone of mutation and adaptation, of new rhythms as thrillingly contagious, of the dancefloor as a place of both affirming and redefining community.

To see these stories told over and over and over again in great detail in the national news is both affirming and disruptive.

Eamonn Hughes maintains that Joyce takes a dialectic approach, both affirming and denying, saying that Stephen's much noted non-serviam is qualified – "I will not serve that which I no longer believe... ......, and that the non-serviam will always be balanced by Stephen's "I am a servant... ...... and Molly's "yes".

Elizabeth Anderson and Samuel Scheffler both affirm versions of relational equality and from this standpoint criticize the family of views that Anderson calls "luck egalitarian," whose foremost exponents are perhaps G. A. Cohen and Ronald Dworkin Cohenn 1989, Anderson 1999, Scheffler 2010, chapters 7 and 8, Dworkin 2000, and for responses to criticisms, Dworkin 2003 and 2010 and Arneson 2004).