Sentence examples for rather to affirm from inspiring English sources

He was concerned rather to affirm that the totality of existence inanimate (Genesis 1 3 19), living (20 25), and human (26 31)—derived immediately from the same divine source.

Again, our purpose here is not to promulgate a specific theory or definitive list of attributes, but rather to affirm the importance of social networks as a field of influence on health behavior and health.

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

There has been – and will continue to be – lively debate regarding which individual-level factors are most relevant with regard to influencing health behavior and health.[ 46] Our point here, however, is not to take a position on that debate, but rather simply to affirm the importance of individual-level factors as an important field of influence on health behavior and health.

This idea must not be confused with the affirmation of determinism of space on human behaviours: rather, it intends to affirm an interaction characterised by a reciprocal influence of actors and actants and their interconnection that leads to forming complex networks.

Rather than wanting to affirm the profile-you through cheap, postable ego-hits, the world's youth culture will become about developing the only thing that a solar flare can't tar: the fathoms-deep inner you.

She and Rob found much to support their gut impulse to affirm rather than repress their son's unconventional gender expression.

The Institute for Justice, a leader in the movement to expand the use of vouchers for religious school tuition, also urged the justices to take the case, but to affirm rather than reverse the Ninth Circuit's decision.

The 1689 Toleration Act introduced the right to affirm rather than swear before God, though when Lionel de Rothschild was elected as an MP in 1847, and declined as a Jew to swear on the Bible, he was not allowed to take his seat.

Where else but in "The Oath" would we learn that Franklin Pierce was the only American president ever to "affirm" rather than "swear" the required oath of office — or that the only full audio file of Obama's second swearing-in was captured by Wes Allison of The St . PetersburgTimes, using his "Panasonic RR-US361 digital recorder"?

Jenny Moir Chelmsford Whether witnesses tell the truth in court or not, it should not be thought that a Christian choosing to affirm rather than swear on the Bible is somehow suspect (Teenager gets life term for killing of 15-year-old, 19 September).