Word: affirmatively
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...observer of the changing business scene, I shall welcome into my home another index to supplement and affirm-or disaffirm-other series...
When Barry attempts to sum up his allegory of good and evil in words, and to affirm man's redemption through his own powers of godliness, it is all too plainly the author speaking, not the characters. If this summing up is bad because of its clumsy preaching, it is also bad because its very explicitness shatters a mood whose strength lies in its eerie, wordless power of suggestion. Barry's people, never quite real, can haunt the audience as unhappy spectres; as stock symbols in a morality play, they merely irritate...
Documents VII and VIII give the Czechoslovak Government's official complaint at Adolf Hitler's "unbelievably coarse and vulgar [propaganda] campaign"; go on to affirm that "Hitler's demands in their present form are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable"; then close with a declaration that "the Czechoslovak Government will be ready to take part in an international conference where Germany and Czechoslovakia, among other nations, would be represented, to find a different method of settling the Sudeten German question...
...present, the important fact is that the work has been commenced. The idealistic aspiration of the two founders have for the first time taken concrete form. It will, however, be the newspapers of the future and the public officials of the future who will either condemn or affirm the convictions of Mrs. Nieman and Mr. Littauer. Meanwhile the responsibility and initiative rests squarely on the shoulders of the nine and thirteen...
...post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with SEC to affirm publicly the partnership between himself and Douglas...