But after so many failures, some fans wonder if Affirmed, who won the title in 1978, was the final one.
But it is more ambitious than that, as if affirming that with its particular focus, it would also end up disclosing something universal.
The legal theories that undergird the decision, if affirmed on appeal, could radically change the landscape for same-sex marriage across the country.
The measure has 25 items scored 1 (if affirmed) or 0 if not.
If affirmed, the child was requested to rate his or her emotional response to the problem on a 4-point Likert-scale.
These observations, if affirmed by future, larger and more rigorous studies that include more robust measures of socioeconomic status and confounding by factors such as nutritional status and habits or other metabolic risk factors such as serum lipids or the metabolic syndrome, further underscore the importance of proactive dental health care as an integral component of holistic, overall health.
"There's so much evidence to show that if you affirm yourself, if you use positive words… then you can challenge all that negative shit and really pull yourself up".
And, on film, Alex Hubbard creates a tarred-and-feathered version of Abstract Expressionism, as if to affirm once and for all that if painting isn't dead, it should be.
As if to affirm that these were residual landscapes, he rarely included people.
The second proposition, if you affirm it sincerely, has already committed you to particular choices and decisions.
