Sentence examples for position to affirm from inspiring English sources

The natural line of response to this criticism of Darwinian re-enchantment is that, while it may be satisfying to believe that there is something not sensed or experienced directly that sustains the world through change, it is not at all clear that we are in a position to affirm the existence of this kind of thing.

This being a "populational" study, we are not in a position to affirm that the variables studied do not weigh on individual PQL perception, nor can interventions on them at the individual level be recommended.

The other incompatibilist position is to affirm libertarian free will along with the principle of alternate possibilities (premise 9), and to deny the possibility of infallible foreknowledge.

To accept an independent human capacity to make good moral choices, the position he longed to affirm and had inclined toward in his earlier works, seemed dangerously close to the heresy of Pelagius that Augustine had condemned.

The attorneys cited a new ruling in another Circuit that rejected a similar claim of privilege, and they urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm their position.

Houses are also a way to affirm our position on the social ladder.

As analysts at Citi put it: "We continue to affirm our previous position that Pfizer intends to re-approach AstraZeneca following the end of the six-month period required under the UK takeover code" – which is just over three weeks away.

Synthetic fuel producers are anxiously waiting for the agency to affirm or amend its position on what they must do to earn the lucrative credits.

The effects of the war, therefore, were to establish Persia's ability to interfere successfully in Greek politics and to affirm Sparta's hegemonic position in the Greek political system.

At last year's General Conference, delegates voted to affirm the long-standing positions in the Book of Discipline: homosexual acts are "incompatible with Christian teaching"; "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" cannot serve as ministers; and marriage is "the union of one man and one woman," so clergy are barred from marrying gay couples.

While it might be expected for environmental champion and Bicameral Committee Co-Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) to opine at the hearing that climate change "threatens to make pro-sports all but impossible to play," it is less expected to hear that position affirmed by Craig Harnett, the Senior Executive Vice President and CFO of the NHL: "Hockey's relationship to climate is unique".