Willinsky notes that citations are often used for one's own purposes, to support or affirm a particular idea. |
Nevertheless, the department continues to affirm its commitment to public safety. |
They are quoted because they support and affirm conventional hopes for life after death. |
The writer talked about her struggles to publicly affirm spiritual values in a culture that is deeply cynical. |
Labor that does not affirm humans and, instead, reduces them to objects for manipulation, is a form of oppression. |
As if to affirm this truth, she rapidly knitted five more rows in one minute flat. |