"I mean this is one more affirmation that the lack of regulation has caused serious problems.
Barney Frank, the influential chairman of the House financial services committee, told the New York Times: "This is one more affirmation that the lack of regulation has caused serious problems.
If Rush fans needed any more affirmation that the "high priests of conceptual metal" were in the midst of a revival, the army of familiar faces gallantly lip-syncing their songs during their recent North American tour should do it.
Narcissists need much more affirmation and attention than most.
It is hard to imagine a more dramatic affirmation of the Buddha-nature teachings in China, or a more pointed rejection of the identification of Buddhist authority with Buddhist literacy.
The Jubilee, for them, was all that and more, an affirmation of their history and identity.
It was a more ringing affirmation of press freedom than Mr. Obama's response when he was first asked about the A.P. case last week.
For all its determined optimism "That Lucky Old Sun" ends up as more an affirmation of Mr. Wilson's legacy than an expansion of it.
The American-guided meeting in Sharm el Sheik, sponsored by President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, ended today with mixed results -- at least in the view of Arab leaders, who had hoped for a more resounding affirmation of Palestinian grievances.
What 2012 suggests, with its combination of the Queen's diamond jubilee and the Games, memorably condensed by Twenty Twelve as the Jubilympics, is a synthesis: a more comfortable affirmation of both our past and our present.
