Sentence examples for grounds for affirming from inspiring English sources

If we had grounds for affirming either, we would have equally good grounds for affirming both; but the conjunction "The wind in itself is cold and the wind in itself is warm" is a contradiction.

Again, Kant's claim will ultimately be that we have necessary and sufficient practical grounds for affirming both our own freedom and the existence of God, but these do not yield theoretical cognition (B xxx).

Despite Shulamith Firestone's (1970/1979) early visions of liberating women from reproductive tasks, within most Anglo-American radical feminism, both female sexuality and the female capacity to give birth are seen as grounds for affirming both the power and the value of the female body.

Nevertheless, we do sometimes have sufficient methodological grounds for positively affirming the existence of certain things.

The military plaintiffs will call for affirming Bakke.

Clarification two months later affirmed that mere discussion of any drugs with a patient was not grounds for sanction, but affirmed that physicians "may not intentionally provide their patients with oral or written statements in order to enable them to obtain controlled substances in violation of federal law".

During that time, I've had the opportunity to be with people for their most ecstatic, ground-shaking, life affirming moments.

Beyond what is more strictly bound up with the practical function of the postulate of immortality, we have no theoretical grounds to positively affirm any model of the life to come, or a timetable for "the transition from time into eternity" (8 327).

"The belief that we are all sinners gives us excellent grounds for forgiveness and self-forgiveness, and is kindlier than any expectation that we might be saints, even while it affirms the standards all of us fail to attain," Robinson writes in her essay "Puritans and Prigs".

Their grounds for suspicion?

There are grounds for scepticism.