Sentence examples for just affirm from inspiring English sources

Of course, it would be just as bromidic to settle the issue by stating that as faith, rather than knowledge or opinion, it is perfectly fine to just affirm it.

"It just affirmed and reinforced my belief in public service," Mr. Warren said of his deployment.

He developed no new philosophy, he said, just affirmed an old one.

"There was never enough money, and yet mother just affirmed us so much," Mr. Miravalle said.

Paul Benson, who drives the tow truck for a local auto repair shop, said the killing "just affirms what I thought before".

By way of contrast, the German justice minister, Heiko Maas, has just affirmed the primacy of national legislation where marriage to minors and polygamy are concerned.

But in "Tiger Writing," which transcribes the Massey Lectures she delivered at Harvard University last year, she always draws back to criticize what she has just affirmed, and affirm what she has just criticized.

A fresh, unhelpful contribution came from a Malaysian appeals court which has just affirmed that non-Muslims must not use the world "Allah" when referring to God in any public context.

She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress, from powerful industries, from impatient environmentalists and from the Supreme Court, which just affirmed the agency's duty to address global warming emissions, a project that carries profound economic implications.

"The Environmental Protection Agency has just affirmed what has been clear all along: the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline fails the president's climate test," said Michael Brune, president of the Sierra Club.

For instance, one could imagine that someone is consciously thinking about something while just affirming abstractly that no body is present where the thinking occurs.