Sentence examples for by the affirmation from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

To protest, demanding, "I want my country back" in 2009, or to be flummoxed or enraged by the affirmation "Black Lives Matter" in 2016 and not admit that anti-black racism fuels this ignores the nation's true history.

The death of this Obamacare repeal — and the potential rebirth of an Obamacare fix — means that the fall congressional agenda could now be highlighted by the affirmation of two major Obama-era policies rather than their repeal.

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.

In the case of individual real things, by contrast, the affirmation or negation of everything that can be affirmed or denied must be established and decided and, conversely, that of which everything down to the most remote relations is established and decided, actually exists.

Similarly, an adult in a romantic relationship never is content with being told that he/she is loved by the beloved only once; he/she insists upon repetitions ad infinitum of the affirmation by the significant other that, "I love you" (as if no affirmation is ever quite enough).

Paulette acknowledged the affirmation by touching his knee, then she asked, "Should we complain?" "About what?" "The Herons.

To the first charge, the assertion that he had a human mother was considered a convincing refutation; with regard to the second, the affirmation by the Council of Ephesus (431) that Mary was Theotokos became the principle upon which devotion to Mary in the East has primarily rested.

Although some such concepts may very well have crept into Israelite thought during the period of the kings (from Saul to Jehoiachin), the crisis of the Babylonian Exile was met by a renewal of the affirmation that the God of Israel was, as Lord of all the earth, free from territorial restraint, though he had chosen a particular territory for this chosen people.