Sentence examples for instead of affirming from inspiring English sources

Instead of affirming the continuity of democratic progress, he expressed his contempt for its non-Trumpian past.

Instead of affirming that he understood their problem and wanted to help, which he genuinely did, he was using words like "can't" and "but". In a heated situation, it's like dousing gasoline on a fire.

And when empathy is in constant rotation it becomes redundant instead of affirming.

The "Brexit" vote may turn out to have been a blunder of historic proportions: Instead of affirming Britain's identity and independence, it could tear the country apart.

Your organization claims to stand for the second Amendment rights of all Americans, but instead of affirming Mr. Castile's constitutional right to carry his gun, you released this vicious and incendiary video calling for armed conflict. .

And two things strike me about that case; one is, if you're right on your jurisdiction theory, then should not this court have vacated, instead of affirmed, the decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in that case?

Sadly, I think this is only the beginning of seeing people in our lives openly questioning our son instead of openly affirming him.

This would demonstrate middle powers' ability to set the official agenda, instead of simply affirming the list of priorities that emanates from Geneva and New York.

In its place, Lotze substituted for this creation of pure thought a kind of linguistic contextualism: instead of affirmation of a particular concept, affirming, as an act, belongs to "nothing but a proposition in which the content of the notion is brought into relation with that of another" (Micro, II, p. 582).

Now, instead of the texts affirming or negating each other, students produced sophisticated scenes of relation between given authors.

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.