Barbara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers Committeee for Civil Rights Under Law, was disappointed that "the Supreme Court did not affirm the constitutionality of the University of Texas affirmative action plan," she said in a statement.
The Iraqi Kurdish leadership was furious when, early this month, the United States acceded to a U.N. resolution on the restoration of Iraqi sovereignty that did not affirm the interim constitution that granted the minority Kurds veto power in any permanent constitution.
As recently as Wednesday, Billy Tauzin, president of the PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, had all but threatened to reverse the group's support for the health care overhaul if the White House did not affirm its commitment to cap the industry's costs at the agreed-upon $80 billion.
Shaftesbury did not affirm this kind of aesthetic independence.
They did not see value in it, it did not affirm their identity and it was not extending their learning.
These studies, however, as mentioned before, evaluated hydraulic efficiency using the mixing time indicator and they did not affirm the relative importance of inlet orientation, inlet momentum and their interaction.
All these studies, however, evaluated the hydraulic efficiency using the mixing time indicator and they did not affirm the relative importance of inlet orientation, inlet momentum and their interaction.
The 1688 Revolution did not affirm, like the French Revolution, that power can revert to the people, who have a right to "erect a new form…as they think good" (to quote Locke's Second Treatise) (Pocock 1989: 207).
The court did not affirm one of Liberty's other contentions, however — declining to find that Part 4 was unlawful on the grounds that it constituted "general and indiscriminate" retention of data.
