After the Title IX news, we told the chancellor we needed an affirmation for the queer community, and within two days she'd done that.
It was a moment that the Texans badly needed, an affirmation that they may finally have enough parts, enough of a team, to withstand even their repeated bad fortune.
In order to effectively be its messenger, though, I needed an affirmation to repeat in my mind and keep close to my heart.
Sikhs, he said, need a positive affirmation of their culture, which has come under attack since Sept. 11 as Sikh men, with the turbans and beards required by their own religion, have been mistaken for Muslims.
And sometimes we need a push, an affirmation, a nod letting us know that someone sees us for what we are really about.
FACING the looming possibility of war in Iraq and the continued shortfall of oil exports from Venezuela, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to announce at its meeting here today that it will continue to supply as much oil as the markets need, essentially an affirmation of what it has been doing for months now, although with limited success.
As if my roles of husband, father, journalist, and mentor weren't enough, I needed a new affirmation of my dudeness.
[Gawker] As if we needed any affirmation that Park Slope is the stroller capital of New York, here's proof.
"A lot of people need that affirmation that sometimes it's more important to be happy than to be normal," he noted.
We need identity affirmation (developing positive feelings and a sense of belonging to one's social group).
