Word: affirmance
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...cauldron of ridicule from some of my black schoolmates under segregation, then immediately thereafter remain secure in that identity during my years at an all-white seminary, I had few racial-identity problems," Thomas declared last week. "I knew who I was and needed no gimmicks to affirm my identity. Nor, might I add, do I need anyone telling me who I am today...
...toot my way over to audiology for a hearing test, a waste of my time, I expect, because I am certain my hearing is excellent. In the soundproof booth where different tones are squeaked through earphones, I dutifully push the button at each to affirm for audiologist Mary Ann Karnuta that I have heard the sound. Two minutes later, I am incredulous when she shows me a printout of my responses. Having failed to hear a range of high-toned pitches, I learn I have mild symptoms of presbycusis--"old-age hearing," Karnuta informs me--caused by gradual loss...
...Every time you affirm the dignity and the rights of individual citizens as the central base of the whole structure [through the practice of law], then you are spelling out the ways in which individual rights are affirmed and protected," he says...
...Hiring committees tend to hire what and whom they recognize as being `like' themselves," Pellegrini says. "This tends then to [affirm the status quo] both in terms of disciplinary approaches and research interests and maybe even in the sorts of people that get hired...
...peacemakers as traitors to their cause, and if that doesn't work, by the only means they know: bombing and killing. On May 22 voters in the North and the Irish Republic will go to the polls to accept or reject the agreement. The referendum will most probably affirm what is already known: they are sick of violence and of the people who believe only in violence...