The skeptical cast of Scudéry's rhetoric, nonetheless, indicates the tentativeness with which her philosophical positions are often affirmed.
For example, issues like abuse; commercialization; illegality; inauthenticity, identity and personhood; lack of autonomy, individual choice, and informed consent as well as concerns regarding safety were more often affirmed than negated.
The newly wealthy are often desperate to affirm their status by conspicuously consuming the favoured brands of the already rich.
There are several verses which are often cited to affirm the idea that belief only has value when freely maintained.
No disgrace in that, but whether consciously or not, it's often seemed to affirm the Galaxy's ascendancy by setting up to try and match LA's proactive approach.
But it reinforces the notion that the center of the contemporary queer experience is undeniably urban, and privilege of a certain kind comes with living in a community that's often more tolerant, affirming and supportive.
Even the Daily Mail, which is often virulently anti-immigrant, affirmed, "We believe that the plight of these unaccompanied children now in Europe — hundreds of them on our very doorstep in the Channel ports of France — has become so harrowing that we simply cannot turn our backs".
For example, Buddhists often affirmed that metaphysically all things are empty of self-substantial being.
This complex theory of signification and its subversion is often referred to as negative theology: affirming our affirmations, then negating them, and then negating the negations to ensure that we do not make an idol out of a God about whom we know nothing.
It is often assumed that the opportunity to "affirm" rather than swear was created so that atheists didn't have to call upon a deity they didn't believe in.
