Sentence examples for by affirmation from inspiring English sources

Both sciences and businesses advance as much by disproof as by affirmation.

By affirmation James means something like an abstract claim, devoid of much doctrinal content, and found in the major religions.

4. Those signs put together by affirmation or negation, otherwise than the Ideas they stand for, are in the mind of the Speaker.

The transactional element that often characterizes these types of relationship is a strong motivating factor, not only through accruing material or social benefits but also by affirmation of self-worth [ 7, 36- 38].

The new movement's goal was to free "Africa from the colonial yoke by the affirmation of her personality and by the association, freely agreed to, of a union of nations".

Communism should be defined not only by the abolition of property but also by the affirmation of the common – the affirmation of open and autonomous production of subjectivity, social relations, and the forms of life; the self-governed continuous creation of new humanity.

Potentially more significant, perhaps, is the work of a special commission established by the Episcopal Church to directly address the crisis posed by the affirmation of Gene Robinson at the last General Convention, in 2003.

And ambition isn't helped by constant affirmation.

Yet the belief in the transcendence of God is mirrored by the affirmation of God's immanence.

They called Mr. Buczynski by his occult name, Lord Gywddion, and one after the other, they offered testimony to Mr. Buczynski, followed by the affirmation "Blessed Be," a common Wiccan affirmation.

By this affirmation of the "noble savage" who draws his moral guidelines from the natural world, Charron became one of the first modern ethical theorists to establish a basis for morality outside religion.