Sentence examples for to affirm this from inspiring English sources

It felt extraordinary to affirm this most basic of American values.

A study conducted by Brazil's Institute of Applied Economic Research named the north-eastern coastal city of Natal as one of the country's safest cities, and on face value local-girl-done-good Khrystal would seem to affirm this.

"Our intention is to affirm this life," Cage wrote, "not to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and one's desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord".

The first linguistic theorist to affirm this priority explicitly was Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 1835), whose approach eventually culminated in the celebrated "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis," formulated by the American linguists Edward Sapir (1884 1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 1941) on the basis of their work on the diverse (and disappearing) indigenous languages of North America.

As if to affirm this, a taxi driver told me, unprovoked by any confession of MS on my part, that his friend with the disease had moved out of London and, due to "shame" about her disability, refused to see anyone.

"When I refused to affirm this lie that was offered to me, when I refused to write a petition, Zaitsev literally said the following: 'Then harsh measures will be taken against your wife and child,' " Mr. Sannikov said, according to a transcript of his testimony published to the opposition Web site, Charter 97.

A quasi-experimental design research has been carried out to affirm the effectiveness of this module in test achievement among the students.

It would be a mistake, however, to affirm the converse of this and say that whatever is nonderivatively good is intrinsically good.

The natural line of response to this criticism of Darwinian re-enchantment is that, while it may be satisfying to believe that there is something not sensed or experienced directly that sustains the world through change, it is not at all clear that we are in a position to affirm the existence of this kind of thing.

The results obtained enabled us to affirm that Gallizio in this work used traditional organic pigments, such as ultramarine blue, lithopone, and carbon black, as well as modern organic ones, such as monoazo PY3 yellow pigment, PR3 monoazo red pigment, and phthalocyanine blue PB15.

Larger scale economic evaluation studies are therefore needed in order to affirm the findings of this study before a definitive policy recommendation can be made.