The description of his Bain years, then, reaffirmed rather than created skepticism over his candidacy.
One of the difficulties however was that so many of the key global issues – AIDS, biodiversity, climate change, trade – had their own conference processes, treaty and other mechanisms in place, such that WSSD could only serve to reaffirm these rather than cut new ground.
The end result is that Facebook's News Feed prioritizes content it thinks you're likely to engage with, which some say reaffirms users' biases rather than exposing them to different points of view.
"He's not going back to the Ten Commandments to reaffirm them, but rather to engage in an open-ended dialogue with the viewer.
"The court did not change the test for political committee status, but rather reaffirmed the approach the FEC has used to determine a group's primary purpose".
Rather it "reaffirmed the importance of regional peace and stability, maritime security, unimpeded commerce, and freedom of navigation, in accordance with relevant universally agreed principles of international law".
But in explaining their specific steps, American officials sounded as if they were reaffirming a valuable relationship rather than delivering a rebuke.
However, Europeans must reaffirm that democratic rights, rather than the dictates of the market, are at the heart of international governance.
According to the coroner's report his wife told an investigator that Williams did not go there because of recent drug or alcohol abuse, but rather to reaffirm the principles of his rehabilitation.
In that meeting, in response to a question about earlier earnings guidance, the CEO allegedly reaffirmed the earlier guidance rather than stating, consistent with company policy, that that earnings guidance was effective at the date given and would not be updated until the company publicly announced updated guidance.
