I could not pray to it, but I can stand in affirmation of its magnificence.
During worship, all Saints, including children, are called upon to give testimony in affirmation of their faith.
The UN's representative was "attempting to devise a formula... which will result in affirmation of Indonesian sovereignty".
It seems clear now that this is less a negative repudiation of family and more a positive exhortation to join in affirmation of a gay lifestyle and love.
Lucretia holds up her left hand, both in affirmation of her innocence and also to still the protests of her horrified household.
Neither Mr. Mubarak nor Mr. Suleiman were at the meeting, and the resulting communiqué declared that the council had met "in affirmation of support for the legitimate demands of the people".
When Ms. Wood confirmed that she is indeed black and white, Mr. Skym, who is Asian and white, boasted, "Now that's what I'm talking about!" in affirmation of their mutual mixed lineage.
As if in affirmation of a drifter's status, Jay had only recently moved on again, to the Nicoya peninsula in central America, where he planned a long retirement, part-literary, part-photographic and "part-beach bum".
"The most stable conception of justice," Rawls says, "is one that is perspicuous to our reason, congruent with our good, and rooted not in abnegation but in affirmation of the self" (TJ, 261).
and in affirmation of the judgment.
What if some toxic gas was released and even as I try to find the exit, we are slowly being asphyxiated?" I said to Lucille, who wagged her tail in affirmation of my crazy.
