The latest court ruling may signal a more robust reaffirmation of secular values.
The performing arts have many functions, Mr. Kellogg said in a shaky voice: "catharsis, consolation, shared experience, reaffirmation of civilized values, distraction".
Whether Syria was a vital American interest before this attack was debatable, but not after Mr Assad's direct challenge to Mr Obama's authority.Second is a reaffirmation of Western values.
He was one of the pioneers of Negritude poetry in Mozambique, a poetry that concentrated on an examination of past African traditions and the emphatic reaffirmation of African values.
Howard Charles Yourow Bronx, Sept. 16, 2008 To the Editor: In arguing that the selection of Sarah Palin constitutes a reaffirmation of populist values, David Brooks cites Steven Hayward, who "argues that the nation's founders wanted uncertified citizens to hold the highest offices in the land".
(Phil Robertson is staunchly antiabortion, and Salon suggested the cast's long beards act as "symbolic reaffirmation of traditional values" for Americans opposed to social change).
At the time, a former actor named Ronald Reagan was President and a growing segment of the population was gravitating to the boob tube away from newspapers, libraries, schools and churches in quest of information and reaffirmation of their values.
The South Carolina case is an emphatic reaffirmation of its value: without the section, a discriminatory law might have gone forward to disenfranchise vulnerable voters.
"It's a reaffirmation of the value of integrating research and training at our universities," says Debra Stewart, president of the Washington, D.C.-based D.C.-based Council of Graduate Schools
Hence his modernising campaign, which Mr Cameron sold to his party as a reaffirmation of its own values.
