Sentence examples for generally affirmed from inspiring English sources

The Indian tribes had their right to offer gambling generally affirmed by Congress in 1988.

Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was a chart-topping song in 2011 that generally affirmed acceptance of homosexuality, and artists like Katy Perry, Fun and Kacey Musgraves have made support for gay rights part of their public personas.

During Roosevelt's presidency (1933 45), Stone generally affirmed the legislative reforms of the New Deal, upholding, for instance, the Social Security Act of 1935 and the enactment of a national minimum-wage law in 1938.

The scientific results from these studies contained few surprises; in fact, they generally affirmed the conclusions in the review by the US National Research Council NRCC, 1999).

Although there was much disagreement over details, early modern atomists generally affirmed that complex bodies are to be understood as being composed of naturally indivisible material atoms moving about in an independently existing space.

The rediscovery of numerous texts of classical antiquity was one of the spurs of the Renaissance, but for the most part, Renaissance intellectuals generally affirmed the Church's opposition to suicide and were not sympathetic to the more permissive attitudes toward suicide found among the ancient pagans.

But the Southern memorials do not generally affirm a unified view of a new nation.

The findings also generally affirm a similar bleak warning issued by the United Nations at the 14th international conference on AIDS in Barcelona, Spain, in July, its first long-range forecast of the global epidemic.

The early-Christian movement showed great openness toward women — Jesus himself flouted Jewish tradition by talking freely with women; women sometimes acted as prophets, apostles, and teachers — and the Gnostics generally affirm that tradition in their texts.

E-40's subject matter is status quo for 2006 hip-hop (though it was also his status quo in 1996) — finding money beyond the margins of the law, engaging in unromantic sexual liaisons, and generally affirming E-40 and the "Yay Area" ("yay" is also slang for cocaine).

Tongue-tied spectators want to thank the Bravos for their service, stammer opinions about the war, talk about the enemy in words that barely make sense to Billy (he keeps hearing 9/11 as "nina leven") and generally affirm their own patriotism.