Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purpose of Westminster's original policy was to affirm and perpetuate the unity of the school's educational mission with its spiritual mission. For Westminster officials, Christianity was not, as it is at secular schools like Harvard, an extracurricular activity, a separate department, or an object of merely sociological interest...
...birth, Bill Clinton was William Jefferson Blythe, his father being a young salesman named William Jefferson Blythe 3rd, who died in a car accident before Bill was born. In a story now familiar, the 15-year-old future President legally changed his name to Bill Clinton in order to affirm family solidarity with his mother and stepfather, Roger Clinton. In 1975, when Bill Clinton got married, his new wife chose to keep the name Hillary Rodham. But five years later, Clinton was defeated in a run for re-election as Arkansas Governor, at which point, to assert a more conventional...
...certain the magazine can defend itself. But if the author is that intent, I'm sure he and I can find a more appropriate forum (and topic) in which to discuss the quality of that "verbally incontinent" publication for which I write. At present, I write to affirm HQ's committment to and investment in both racial equality and multiculturalism...
...most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows. The stark political challenge in the decade ahead will be to affirm that, even though America is no longer a separate and distinct economy, it is still a society whose members have abiding obligations to one another...
Just like shoes, schools come in a variety of sizes and styles. Some explicitly affirm and teach a set of values, a political ideology or a set of religious beliefs, while others have a hands-off approach to children's moral and spiritual value-finding. Some are geared to the needs of gifted children, while others are equipped to handle children with behavioral or learning disabilities (something the public school "special ed" system does poorly). Others have a specific ethnic or gender composition which empowers and nurtures the students...