I would observe every bump and scar, every pore and pustule, all the while affirming to myself that this was ME and I needed to accept reality.
She respects her interlocutors' right to opacity while affirming the importance of their stories.
Like Kushner, Pinter was also highly critical of modern Israel, while affirming its right to exist.
Mr. Putin himself echoed that view when he endorsed the police action, while affirming his support for a free press.
Open-source software, Wikipedia, the creative commons and social media make commoning possible while affirming the ethos of horizontal organisation.
While affirming the AA+ ratings of Berkshire Hathaway and four other insurers, S.&P. said it was revising its outlook on the five to "negative" from "stable".
One recent poll, while affirming public support for legal abortion over all, suggested that a majority of people would draw the line at 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The appeals court in the case, while affirming Mr. Skilling's conviction, had accepted the premise that there was a "pervasive community bias against those who oversaw Enron's collapse".
Ernest Renan, in his pathbreaking "Life of Jesus" in 1863, also repudiated the idea that Jesus was the son of God while affirming the beauty of his teachings.
For Citigroup, Moody's cut its ratings on short-term debt to Prime 2 from Prime 1, while affirming its A3 long-term rating.
His critical essays greatly stimulated German letters and combated conservative dogmatism and cant while affirming religious and intellectual tolerance and the unbiased search for truth.
