Sentence examples for designed to affirm from inspiring English sources

Even when a moment designed to affirm some of America's basic principles is dangled before him, President Donald Trump has a way of batting it aside.

In denying Mr. Xia's last appeal on Wednesday, China's highest court offered no insight into its decision, although many analysts suspect it was designed to affirm the authority of China's chengguan, the widely reviled army of low-paid code enforcement officials charged with keeping urban order.

In recent years, I have been chronicling the evolution of the "identity museum" or "identity exhibition," designed to affirm a particular group's claims, outline its accomplishments, boost its pride and proclaim, "We must tell our own story!" These cries have been made with varying degrees of urgency and justice.

While prudence is an instrument of organic unity, cunning and reason of state are nothing but techniques designed to affirm individualistic egoism and, for this reason, are doomed to failure, as is amply demonstrated by the tragic end of Machiavellian heroes, whose successes are revealed to be merely apparent or ephemeral, or by the sad life of tyrants, constantly plagued by suspicions and fears.

Newson's career as arguably the most influential industrial designer of his generation and the leading exponent of the so-called design-art movement may stand as much on the quasi-­moral power of design to affirm the social virtues of wit, proportion, elegance and simplicity, as on his obsession with futuristic forms and modernist aesthetics.

In Study 1, 56 participants (37 women, 19 men, Mage = 33.16 years) completed either a questionnaire designed to self-affirm kindness or a control equivalent and rated their disgust, anger, sadness, and happiness toward their appearance and behavior.

Nonetheless, to point out that "Chronicles" is designed to manipulate our perceptions is simply to affirm that it's genuine Dylan.

The task in the intervention condition was designed to encourage students to self-affirm their values by reflecting on them; whereas in the control condition students reflected on the values of another person which were different to their own.

The tour was designed to bolster trans-Atlantic support in the event of war, and to affirm Canada's status as a self-governing kingdom sharing with Britain the same person as monarch.

A common theme in the literature is recognition of the need for affirming services specifically designed to meet the needs of transgender young people experiencing homelessness, as this population may not utilize or have access to much needed services due to systemic barriers and fear of rejection and harassment.

As our present results are based on a post hoc analysis and the AFFIRM study was not designed to investigate regional difference, our analysis cannot provide a definitive answer.