They were unswerving in affirming the power of education to change people's attitude toward HIV and remove the stigma. |
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They have shown impressive skill in affirming and accentuating the positives of even the most adverse of circumstances. |
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We are peace-loving people and we do not let others suppress us, he said, affirming the policies of the government. |
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They were simply making themselves visible, affirming their existence and moral legitimacy. |
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It is a symptom of an intellectually impoverished time that accepting social responsibility and affirming life should be considered opposites. |
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It's encouraging and affirming to be told you might be interested in your own writings and musings. |
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Our evaluations after such transmutation will again be merely perspectives, but their point of view will then be affirmative and affirming. |
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It emphasizes participation in God, employing a Thomist doctrine of analogy as a way of affirming difference as well as participation. |
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The old question was, How can otherwise sensible people, in affirming God as a source of meaning, manifest, such infantilism? |
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Machiavelli begins by affirming that everybody realizes how praiseworthy it is when a ruler lives uprightly and not by trickery. |
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Such activities were not only affirming but also emotively comforting to the client in ways that more plastic mediums have not been. |
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For all its complexity, the revisionist programme is best understood as affirming the fruitfulness of critical reflection. |
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All agreed in affirming that happiness is to be found in ataraxy, that is, in tranquility of spirit. |
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By expressing a love for pink, a girl is affirming her identity as a female creature. |
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Speakers use their local accents as a means of affirming identity and loyalty to local groups. |
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The throng surrounding them shouted affirming hallelujahs and amens, flapping and singing, rattling their tambourines and bleating their horns. |
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It turns out that the principle he was affirming wasn't against Government funding of party political ads. |
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Rather than affirming plainly mistaken rulings in the name of stare decisis, the Court should reserve its deference for the Constitution itself. |
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It is a wonderful way of affirming the life and dignity of the person who is dying. |
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The constitutions of the three countries provide for women's political rights by affirming their right for vote and for election. |
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Your hope may also shift to finding meaning in the mystery of death and to affirming beliefs about life after death. |
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Such visits can be important to someone who is dying, affirming the impact that they have had on the lives of others. |
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We also discover the wisdom of our experience, affirming that what we know and what we care about matter. |
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The verb explain is sufficiently ambiguous to suggest a causality without explicitly affirming its existence. |
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Fast, comfortable, a window on the city and environmentally friendly: the tramway is affirming itself as a modern means of travel. |
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Today they are affirming their right to conserve elaborate and transmit their knowledge using culture-based methodologies. |
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Guests dine and rub shoulders with working coffee farmers and, in an affirming testament to the honor system, are asked to log their own charges on a communal notepad. |
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Arguments both affirming and contesting the unethicality of political advertising, especially negative advertising, appears to come out most heavily on the side of unethicality. |
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These ads, and many others like them, present that nightmare as true, thus affirming and even glorifying one of the symptoms of the illness. |
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You are therefore the very image of French Canada affirming itself in every part of the country. |
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The Beijing-born lecturer in ceramics at Shanghai University still invests his chairs with decorative swirls of Chinese calligraphy, affirming his Chinese heritage. |
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Casting aside the codes of social class, she laughs at convention, audaciously affirming her personality. |
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The Court can only issue an order affirming or setting aside the decision of the federal institution to release the document in question. |
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That's how they kept clean, meeting with the mayor one day and affirming no snitching over nonviolence the next. |
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For the United States, our so-so results are neither depressing nor affirming. |
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Now Rome complains that the anglican communion is affirming gays through blessed unions and full admission to the priesthood. |
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Choosing the Cévennes is affirming the desire for a classic car with resolutely dynamic aesthetics. |
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Coinage in both England and Francia was used as a means of affirming royal authority, though the volume of production of early medieval coinage is still in question. |
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And during Jim Crow, I think it's fair to say it was not affirming of African-American humanity. |
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That is why we must be united and strong in rejecting their ways, and affirming peace and progress as our chosen determined collective right. |
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I will end by affirming this principle: the cost of these measures will certainly be very high, but our priority is health. |
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During the conference, we will be affirming our commitment to a certain type of justice for minors, which we believe to be the only realistic one. |
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Many congregations, including cathedrals, have become publicly affirming of LGBTI rights. |
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The osteotomists, affirming that fracture cannot be performed at this low level, say that osteoclasy must be given up. |
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We know that Canada is the best country in the world, but thank you, for affirming this and for choosing our land, and welcome into the Canadian family! |
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Not being a doctor in theology, I think, quite humbly, that the Church has the duty, before affirming anything whatsoever, to establish criteria that will allow it to evaluate the authenticity of God's messenger. |
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Only by affirming the animateness of the landscape do we allow for full immersion and participation with our surrounding landscape. |
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The second conclusion is that an observation of jurisprudence, whether in the United States or in Europe, should make economists diffident about affirming a normative foundation for the allocation of competences. |
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I had a number of calls from constituents asking for that in advance of making that change, and affirming and commending us for having so done after that change was made. |
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Despite modern land laws affirming equal access to the land, their inefficacy in rural area contributes to maintain the woman in a state of initial poverty due to the social structures. |
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Religious Life withdraws from pure interiority, affirming the incarnation of grace, as well as rejecting pharisaism, legalism, and the externalization of religious rites without a corresponding inner experience. |
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It was as if by simply affirming the supremacy of the constitution one could guarantee that most countries' recently inaugurated democratic systems, together with the values they conveyed, would stay the course. |
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What I am affirming here, can upset pseudo-esotericists and pseudo-occultists who are fully convinced by all theories that they read, which assure them that the rational homunculus has a mental body. |
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After much heart-searching, the General Council came to the decision that the International Scholasticate should be given its full support as an important instrument for affirming certain essential Oblate values. |
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I have no hesitation in affirming that this friendly collaboration will be the hallmark of the European Broadcasting Union not only in its domestic affairs but in its relations with other bodies. |
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Mda treats his characters with dignity, affirming their humanity and their experiences. |
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As religious leaders from diverse faith communities, we find common ground in affirming that the best interests of the child must prevail over adults' exercise of their liberty. |
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For Scott, affirming identity is more a question of state of mind, proudly shared among a given group, rather than looking back nostalgically at the past or breathlessly keeping up with the latest fads. |
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It is therefore essential, from an ethical point of view, to keep affirming that technology is fallible and to forbid automatic decision making, especially in domains such as security and justice. |
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They claim that the acts of expropriation have continuing effects through the courts' decisions in their case, affirming the validity of the expropriation. |
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Nowadays, young people are looking harder and harder for ways of affirming their identity and standing out by wearing original shoes that convey a strong message. |
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To establish eligibility, students will have to produce written statements from their parents or guardians and health professionals affirming their gender identity. |
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Being able to do a very difficult job is life affirming. |
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There are countless examples of friends and families of people with disabilities showing compassion by affirming the fullness of their human dignity and sharing their suffering, as overwhelming as that may be at times. |
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Gilmour responded by issuing a carefully worded press release affirming that Pink Floyd would continue to exist. |
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In 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was sent by a group of Scottish nobles to the Pope affirming Scottish independence from England. |
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Some Episcopal members or theologians hold evangelical positions, affirming the authority of scripture over all. |
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Sarah Macneil, has been affirming and supportive of LGBT clergy and relationships. |
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John's Cathedral in the Diocese of Brisbane have officially become supportive and affirming of LGBT people. |
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Although her book is incredibly affirming, Garner doesn't sugarcoat her material. |
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A visual observation allows affirming that the air coil is completely defrosted. |
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However, while lacking a uniform doctrine, Orthodox Judaism is basically united in affirming several core beliefs, disavowal of which is considered major blasphemy. |
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The Pope, while affirming the doctrine and approving its use in teaching, opposed its inclusion in the text of the Creed as adopted in the 381 First Council of Constantinople. |
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This idea was initially disputed by another Swiss scientist, Louis Agassiz, but when he undertook to disprove it, he ended up affirming his colleague's hypothesis. |
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Standing on top of Trash Mountain and affirming the Messianic promise of the kingdom of heaven, we cannot help but take responsibility for recycling and reducing consumption. |
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In a way it is comforting, perhaps even life affirming, for the majority of human beings, nonsuperstars, to think they have chosen the other course. |
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After the Reform Bill was rejected in the Lords, the House of Commons immediately passed a motion of confidence affirming their support for Lord Grey's administration. |
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By 12 April 1080, William and Robert had reached an accommodation, with William once more affirming that Robert would receive Normandy when he died. |
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Musicking provides a means of affirming the communal elements of surfing, while the activity of surfing itself is generally a solitary affair between the surfer and the ocean. |
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The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads. |
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In the meantime, Serb professors and diplomats were affirming the integral Serbism of Bulgarian Macedonia, and thus peacefully paving the way for war. |
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