Sentence examples for rather than affirming from inspiring English sources

Some party officials suggest that this could open the door to a form of "intraparty democracy," in which a bigger group of senior officials selects a candidate rather than affirming the choice of the topmost echelon.

Mr. Sprigg said his group believed that what it calls "gender identity disorder" should be "treated with therapy to help people be comfortable with their biological sex rather than affirming and celebrating and protecting those who want to deny their biological sex".

In "The Comeback Album as Testimonial," Tony Gervino wanders from the more likely truth in his analysis of Kanye West's "comeback album": it is far more plausible that Kanye's collaborators on his new album were more interested in protecting themselves as "artists" from criticism — especially the presidential variety — rather than affirming that Kanye is a really great guy after all.

Such a convention which would examine votes at 16, the replacement of the House of Lords by a Senate of the regions and nations, and what could add up to a quasi-federal territorial constitution would elevate the debate on citizens' rights above the current narrow and blinkered Conservative focus on removing rights rather than affirming them.

Rather than affirming any of the specific explanations of how God created all else, they affirm a more general contention compatible with each of these specific explanations: that God is in some manner directly responsible for the existence of all else.

Rather than affirming what adherents stand for, nostalgia-driven movements are generally assertions of whom its followers stand against.

The sand and the sea and the sky and the stars, which, for Camus, seem to negate life rather than affirm it, are, for Daoud, vital witnesses and participants in his existence.

Civil society and pressure groups denounced the declaration, saying it "undermines, rather than affirms, international human rights law and standards".

Rather than affirm death, The Vegetarian offers the standard injunction that we think about how we live today and consider whether we might live otherwise.

Rather than merely affirming abstract principle, they worked through an on-the-ground commitment to freedom of expression along with the cultivation of diverse points of view and a sense of belonging.

This is lo-fi used for a sonic purpose, rather than to affirm some dodgy punk manifesto.