Sentence examples for without affirming from inspiring English sources

It begins "O God" and ends "Amen", and without affirming any particular faith or sect, asks for help in making wise decisions.

And I'll accept that Mr. Bush was ill-advised to speak at the university last month without affirming his respect for Catholics and his commitment to racial equality.

"It's hard to have any conversation about this brilliant cultural production — gospel music — without affirming the prominent role that same-gender-loving people have played and continue to play".

In the World, he had presented his non-atomistic corpuscularism, but without denying void space outright and without affirming infinite divisibility (11 12 20).

The notion of the foundational consciousness is an attempt for Buddhists to account for personal causality without affirming a real self.

So the analysis of being reveals two meanings of existence: the first affirms or establishes the existence of something; the second expresses, without affirming its existence, the reality by virtue of which something is what it is, namely, its essence.

The terms "folk" and "outsider" — never mind the spineless euphemism "self-taught" — are hard to use without condescension, affirming a superior knowingness.

It does this by arguing that evil resides in the denial of freedom (mine and others), that we are responsible for ensuring the existence of the conditions of freedom (the material conditions of a minimal standard of living and the political conditions of uncensored discourse and association), and that I can neither affirm nor live my freedom without also affirming the freedom of others.

Many authors have challenged Ricoeur's view by proposing a distinction between recognition (of oneself as well as of others) and "identification": Whereas we identify an X as an X without necessarily affirming it as (and because of) X, recognition requires a positive evaluation of X.

When asked if Renault intended to stay in Formula One, he replied, "Yes," without elaborating or affirming that he had that assurance from the company.

When asked if Renault intended to say in Formula One, he replied, "yes," without elaborating or affirming that he had that assurance from the company.