In the late 1940s, Hubbard wrote a series of private Affirmations in which he tells himself "your eyes are getting progressively better.
Individual affirmation is discouraged.
The Partnership illustrates private sector's affirmation and resolve to play their role in the promotion of girls' education that has emerged as a national challenge demanding collective social action.
Private values — memories, affirmations — may well have played a role in some historic compromises.
Gabriele Schnaut transcends her vibrato problems to bring the work safely home with a magnificent and serene performance of Isolde's "Liebestod," majestic yet private, and given superb affirmation by the orchestra and Mr. Rattle.
It raises questions about symbolic value, place and placement, private belief and public statement and affirmation, at the occasion of the millennium.
Christian Democrats were conservative in their affirmation of the right to private property as basic to a Christian society, but they also insisted that the rich look after the needs of the poor.
Ms Cott points out that marriage is not merely a private arrangement between two people; it requires public affirmation, and carries distinct public rights and benefits.
Even her private life is a thriving enterprise, served up as an affirmation of gay marriage set in a Harlequin romance frame.
For an independent investigative commission to be successful, it needs not only subpoena power but also power to administer oaths and affirmations, the authority to examine witnesses in public or private hearings, and adequate financing.
