Sentence examples for merely affirming from inspiring English sources

Conceiving of a festival as a single work of art created in the medium of its host city, Holloway is not interested in merely affirming Melbourne's local character.

Federal judge Janet Arterton, a prominent liberal, dismissed the case on a summary judgment despite a small mountain of evidence attesting the city's discriminatory intent, and a Second Circuit majority that included Sonia Sotomayor gave the complainants even shorter shrift, merely affirming Arterton's opinion.

The language we added to the bill makes clear that it's merely affirming, and not expanding, the AUMF".

In this community, Friday's disappointing jobs report appeared to change little if anything, merely affirming an unmistakeable reality: a chronic shortage of jobs.

Rather than merely affirming abstract principle, they worked through an on-the-ground commitment to freedom of expression along with the cultivation of diverse points of view and a sense of belonging.

But this endorsement would also be an empty exercise if it merely affirmed the choice of Clinton supporters.

The accord merely affirmed that emissions should peak and then fall as soon as possible, but it set no target dates.

They could merely affirm that Trump's comments about "rapists" were "extraordinarily ugly" or "offensive and inaccurate," repudiating him without making any specific commitments of their own.

Thus, I argue that campuses cannot merely affirm the status quo; neither can we as undocumented persons nor our accomplices let that happen.

That promise was not part of the leaders' summary statement, which merely affirmed a commitment to fighting the spread of the disease.

The events of last week merely affirmed that and didn't warrant quite so much breathlessness, some of it from Cain and his chief of staff, Mark Block, who were simply appalled — appalled, I tell you — at reporters' relentlessness and enemies' determination.