Sentence examples for merely reaffirming from inspiring English sources

One thing I didn't mention in that piece is that Osborne isn't merely reaffirming his commitment to the deflationary economics of the early nineteen-thirties.

It avoided mention of the sea at all, merely reaffirming "the importance of regional peace and stability, maritime security, unimpeded commerce, and freedom of navigation".

Now that Perez's tougher pronouncement looks like an outlier among Democratic leaders, the DNC is claiming that he never meant to take a different position in the first place and was merely reaffirming the party's strong commitment to fighting for abortion rights.

At the last national party congress in 2007, Mr Hu merely reaffirmed the need for experiments.

Instead, he merely reaffirmed his commitment to balance the budget by 2018, and, thereafter, to run a surplus.

Republicans backing the motion said it merely reaffirmed Mr Bush's current policy; Democrats said it was meant to improve it.

The Republican brief says the statute "merely reaffirmed what Congress has always meant" when it refers to marriage: "a traditional male-female couple".

Instead, they say, it would merely reaffirm the authority of the states to regulate alcohol sales, and diminish the authority of federal courts, which they say have been confusing and inconsistent.

When Congress enacted it, lawmakers said the statute merely reaffirmed, and did not expand, the existing detention powers granted a decade earlier in the authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Officials with District Council 37, which has 125,000 members, called the overall package excellent and played down the merit-pay language, saying it merely reaffirmed a right that the city has long held.

The fact that the soundtrack for We Need to Talk About Kevin slips from eerie Jonny Greenwood to upbeat Lonnie Donegan with ease merely reaffirms Ramsay's intuitive ear – like so many visionary film-makers her art often seems closer to conducting than directing, as if she listens with her eyes.