Sentence examples for either affirm from inspiring English sources

Too frequently, works either affirm the protocol of serving the expectations of their anticipated audiences or are cut loose as irrelevant.

Evaluations either affirm or reject students' responses, but as appraisals, they may grade the force of affirmation or rejection from weak to strong.

According to Aristotle, every such sentence must have the same structure: it must contain a subject (hupokeimenon) and a predicate and must either affirm or deny the predicate of the subject.

In this mode, the seizure phase is followed by the discrimination phase, which can either affirm the object's value or convince us that it was not worthy of our initial response.

However, when I claim that nothing can change my conviction, I must either affirm that I have already anticipated all possible future scenarios and no possible event can change my conviction, or affirm that whatever events do occur anticipated or unanticipated they will not shake my conviction.

How Americans choose to incorporate Iraq into the nation's historical narrative will either affirm our post-Cold War trajectory toward empire or create opportunities to set a saner course.... Give the neo-cons this much: they appreciate the stakes.

Similarly, the many Americans who display the Confederate flag on their car or truck bumpers are not usually applauding slavery, but are instead either affirming a hostility to centralised power or simply expressing a vaguer rebelliousness of spirit.

Of the 8,078 criminal appeals terminated on the merits in federal courts last year, 92% were either affirmed or dismissed.

Contradictory negation is not a one-place operator taking propositions into propositions, but rather a mode of predication, a way of combining subjects with predicates: a given predicate can be either affirmed or denied of a given subject.

We were not allowed to preside over same-sex weddings, for one, even though many of us either affirmed or secretly presided over them for years.

Through appropriation, contemporary artists have either affirmed culture's euro-centric power dynamics, or used the canon as inspiration to create new representations that are less white, straight, male, and affluent, claiming power on the canvas for the non-European figure. .