As if my roles of husband, father, journalist, and mentor weren't enough, I needed a new affirmation of my dudeness.
On the long road to education reform, the movement toward the creation of smaller schools has gotten some important new affirmation.
And the changing sentiments about the war have provided a new affirmation for the position taken by Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor whose opposition to the war has helped power him into the front tier of the Democratic competition.
PAGE A8 China Vote, Local Politics The House approval of a China trade bill was no new affirmation of internationalism, but a reaffirmation of an old truth: Members vote their districts.
The most important foreign policy vote so far this year, the 237-to-197 House approval of the China trade deal, was no new affirmation of internationalism by an often provincial Congress, but a reaffirmation of one of its oldest truths: Members vote their districts.
The Asia Pacific needs Japanese leadership and a new affirmation of "international law".
In the end, President Abdurrahman Wahid got just what he wanted: the suspension of his troublesome general today along with new affirmations of support from the country's querulous military.
I went home that night and wrote down my new affirmations.
Once you see improvement in those areas or accomplish those goals you can develop new affirmations for other items on your list.
Handey took a familiar form — the glib and saccharine new-age affirmation — and injected it with deranged absurdity, thereby giving its rote sentimentality new bite.
Participants evaluated inferences corresponding to modus ponens (Jane took the newer drug therefore she won the race), modus tollens (Jane did not win the race therefore she did not take the newer drug), affirmation of the consequent (Jane won the race therefore she took the newer drug) and denial of the antecedent (Jane did not take the newer drug therefore she did not win the race).
