The phrase "receive affirmation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone has received recognition for an accomplishment or when someone's opinion has been supported. For example, "After receiving affirmation from her peers, she felt more confident in her work".
He already knew that, but it was nice to receive government affirmation that he is a law-abiding citizen — and not the bad Michael Kirby who causes all of his namesakes to appear on terrorist watch lists.
Only when the duck meets a mallard who "looks a little like you" does it receive the affirmation it's been seeking; the mallard says, "You are who you are," and the duck is then free to laugh and play, soon adopting the local language and learning to savor its surroundings.
Gabriela mentions a similar, external motivation to receive the affirmation of her family.
And more than once during Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of "The Bachelorette," we saw men blow up when they didn't receive the affirmation they believed they deserved.
With Gingrich absent from the race, Santorum would have the chance to test his theory, which certainly received an affirmation yesterday, that in a head-to-head contest — or a three-way contest including Ron Paul — he can defeat Romney.
Students are interested in receiving external affirmation deriving mostly from family.
On receiving an affirmation from the students, the teacher then aligns them to the terms used by narrator voice by referring them to instances in the verbal text (messages 477 486).
He made his choices, and he's received great affirmation for those choices.
But then, there is no substitute for a child receiving the affirmation of loving parents and we need to open more yeshivas in more places so that kids don't need to be sent away at too young an age.
