affirmation

Examples of affirming

affirming

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They too imparted female qualities to the kingship, whilst simultaneously affirming the king's manhood.
After all, a juror at the outset has no basis for either affirming or denying the innocencem of the defendant.
In both cases, understanding the implications of the concept in question implies affirming its existence.
Far from affirming continuity, scripture affirms extinction and recreation.
Hence, he has no good reason for affirming that theistic belief is irrational or unreasonable.
It is clearly compatible with affirming the existence of good probabilistic theistic arguments.
Enjoyment and meaning come in affirming that all the diversity reinforces a basic lesson.
It makes no sense to set aside some of your beliefs unless in doing so you are affirming another of your beliefs as higher.
Whether self-inflicted or caused by others, physical pain was a way of affirming the boundaries of identity.
They are more often about social interaction, physical pleasure, affirming faith, fulfilling roles and expressing culture.
This is not to say that there are no problems with affirming divine foreknowledge.
If other group members could never be wrong in affirming their own norms, then tolerance would be an empty virtue.
On the affirming responses, there were relatively few errors in all groups, and they declined gradually with age.
By including the patient in the process, the physician/nurse is recognizing and affirming the dignity of the patient.
The consumerist affirming of misogynist lyrics in rap are an example - albeit the music industry represents a different discipline.
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