From that perspective, the crisis is simply further affirmation of natural resources "stretched beyond their limits".
At the outset of the struggle over the gay marriage ban ballot measure in the summer of 2008, the Yes on 8 leadership found that "a campaign that was simply an affirmation of traditional marriage" -- Schubert's phrasing -- would fail.
We knew from the very beginning that a campaign that was simply an affirmation of traditional marriage and did not develop a path that lead voters to consider consequences to legalized same sex marriage in California - that that formula would not be successful.
Simply saying affirmations could change your stories about your body and your relationship to your own sexiness.
Davis simply needed the affirmation that a different life was possible, one that was achievable through the mastery of language.
It was not clear whether Mr. Powell was seeking any concrete changes in the captives' treatment or simply an unequivocal affirmation that the United States would follow the letter of the Geneva Conventions.
The justices, for instance, noted in their decision that while the law called for voters to be granted state-issued ID simply upon an affirmation, "as implementation of the Law has proceeded, PennDOT -- apparently for good reason -- has refused to allow such liberal access".
To do an affirmation, simply focus on the words that induce the right mood or feeling.
Even the Dominion settlement is simply a re-affirmation of a two-and-a-half-year-old tentative agreement.
This is important for the practical function of faith, since our commitment to morality does not so simply depend on our affirmation of the postulates, but in our free act of faith through which we more completely bind ourselves to morality.
