Word: affirmation
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...course you'd like to know that your aunt thought of you at the end. Having some small bequest would affirm your feeling of connection to her and might help you gain closure...
...Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “Homosexuality closes the sexual act to the gift of life and does not proceed from a genuine and affective sexual complementarity.” In light of the nature and design of our human sexuality, we must affirm in a spirit of undying love our commitment to opposing any action which sanctions or encourages behavior which degrades and dehumanizes our sexuality. No “progressive” or “inclusive” ideas will ever justify exchanging our humanity for something less...
...outside the Holyoke Center to publicly decry the HUCTW layoffs and to address a host of other workers’ issues. Feminists, and anyone concerned about women’s rights at this University, should do everything they can to be in attendance. Their presence will affirm that at the end of the day, the structures of power and privilege that hinder gender equality are the same ones that hold workers down. The world’s richest university and the object of Working Mother’s (misguided) approbation owes its women workers more than a pink slip...
They also requested that Details demand the resignation of the column’s author, Whitney McNally, “to affirm its commitment to culturally sensitive and responsible journalism,” and institute cultural-sensitivity training for its editorial and writing staff...
...grisly death of four American civilian security contractors in Fallujah - combined with a roadside bomb that killed five U.S. soldiers nearby - has elicited an unusual degree of hand-wringing back in the U.S. So much so that the White House felt compelled to affirm that the killings would not deter the U.S. from staying the course in Iraq. That the White House felt the need to reiterate that assurance in response to the incident was telling in itself: It may have been the bloodiest day of the past three months, but there have been far bloodier days...