Sentence examples for thus affirmed from inspiring English sources

These rites were thus affirmed by the Roman Catholic Church as sacraments that were instituted by Christ.

The Supreme Court thus affirmed the ruling of the Fifth Circuit and struck down the act as an impermissible exercise of congressional power under the commerce clause.

When he became president he stepped down after two terms and thus affirmed the precedent that Washington had established — a precedent finally made part of the Constitution by the 22nd Amendment in 1951.

Protestant theologians from Luther and Calvin to Karl Barth have thus affirmed the priority of faith not only to "works" but also to natural theology.

That is, in the face of genuine clear and distinct perception, our affirmation of it is so firm that it cannot be shaken, even by a concerted effort to call the things thus affirmed into doubt.

Not all philosophers who have been identified as occasionalists, however, were full-blown occasionalists in this sense, since some argued that only a limited subset of creatures lack causal powers, and thus affirmed the causal efficacy of other creatures.

Commentators have spoken of "the relationship of music to the human senses and intellect," thus affirming a world of human discourse as the necessary setting for the art.

"George Bush, the leader of the crusaders' campaign, announced a few days ago that he will order his converted agent Musharraf to shut down the Kashmir mujahedeen camps, thus affirming that it is a Zionist-Hindu war against Muslims".

With Empty Lot, Cruzvillegas forged an organic bond with his host city in an installation that was literally "in a constant change," thus affirming his conviction that, in terms of art, place, and identity, "nothing is fixed".

(Third-party candidates, including Socialist Eugene V. Debs, who captured more than 400,000 votes, won the remainder of the popular vote.) Of the 13 states Parker won, none was north of the Mason and Dixon Line, thus affirming the Democrats' grip on the South while emphasizing its insufficiency in winning national elections.

(In 1926, in Myers v. United States, the Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice and former president William Howard Taft, overturned an 1876 law that required the president to receive senatorial consent to remove a postmaster, thus affirming the right of a president to remove executive officers without approval of the Senate).