In recent days, senior administration officials said, the United States was trying to get agreement on a statement, backed by the international community, affirming President Obama's proposal last May to negotiate the creation of a Palestinian state.
For most people, religion has ceased to be a matter of belonging to a clerically led community, affirming unchanging dogma, participating in prescribed rituals, and holding conservative social attitudes.
The international community affirmed its commitment to these values in the Responsibility to Protect, adopted by the United Nations in 2005, which asserts the duty to intervene when nations fail to protect, or persecute, their citizens.
The governor himself, in a brief news conference at the State Capitol on Monday and in a round-robin letter to members of the political and legal community, affirmed his statement that "I acted properly and my administration acted appropriately" in connection with the two contracts.
If the larger society rejected and despised them, God and the faith community affirmed them.
In the face of increasingly vociferous attestations from the medical community, affirmed unequivocally on Monday by DOJ Civil Rights Division Head Vanita Gupta, that "transgender women are women," they repeatedly refer to us as "men".
Found in many religious and social traditions, it may signify incorporation into a given community, affirm identity or ritual cleansing.
Arts-led regeneration, has two aims: material, to improve the local economy; and therapeutic, to help build the community, affirm identity and make people feel better.
Thus, every adult Ahmadi Muslim has recited this pledge dozens of times, and every person who joins the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community affirms this pledge in writing with his or her signature.
"The United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine".
Certain formulations in the study, like repeatedly describing a shift "from religious institution to spiritual community" or affirming a "dynamic view of Episcopal tradition" or peppering the text with the term "mission," may cloak more than they clarify.
