Word: affirmativeness
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...reason minority and suburban voters tell us they are attracted is because they've been manipulated for years by mainstream parties, and got nothing in return. We're telling them to affirm their French citizenship, love of country, and their responsibilities to France, and we'll reserve them all the rights and privileges of citizenship - work, decent housing, aid when they need...
...Supreme Judicial Court got it right, because all it did was affirm the principle that people come before their governments as equals. I don't see any reason to upset that. We need to get this issue settled and off the table so we can get on to the issues people are really worried about...
...most outrageous. We embraced racist language in order to strangle it.” Like proponents of absurdist theater in the ’20s, the idea is to present to the audience something so outrageous that they are compelled to disagree with it, and in doing so, affirm their moral core...
...shallow-minded alumni booster organizations that donate their own, tax-deductible millions - making sure the jocks sleep in five-star hotels on the road while engineering majors back on campus scrape by to pay skyrocketing tuitions - only affirm that warped culture. The booster clubs and athletic departments counter that university classrooms and non-major sports benefit from the football and basketball riches...
...should Harper’s apology be construed to apply to or, frankly, to have anything to do with Harvard. The apology was addressed to the Dartmouth community and served to affirm the view of the Dartmouth Athletic Department that the mascots which the NCAA has deemed “hostile and offensive” are indeed so. Harper was speaking in the context of several recent events at Dartmouth—events of such magnitude that Dartmouth’s president has officially addressed them and, just last week, sparked a “Solidarity Against Hatred?...