Word: affirming
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...define Wright's beliefs but to help readers understand the evolving relationship between the spiritual and empirical worlds. To help that process, associate editor Richard N. Ostling has written a piece accompanying the main story that tells of working scientists of various faiths who are perfectly willing to affirm their belief in God the Creator...
...lyric moment is the moment before our minds are made up for a particular action or a particular way of seeing. It is not the instant of choice, but the instant before, in which these poems take place. If that denies Hotel Lautreamont the chance to affirm any one view of life or mind, it is, surely, a small price to pay for lines, views, forms, surprises, ideas and indeed whole poems so various, comic, sad, elegant and moving as the many in Ashbery's new book...
This being the case, it is to be hoped that the Court will overturn the lower courts' decisions and declare the ordinance unconstitutional. Such a decision would set a valuable precedent by affirming that the religious freedom of even non-mainstream groups was still protected, a principle which the Court has recently been reluctant to affirm. There are several compelling reasons why the ordinance should be considered unconstitutional...
Dominguez said students must "affirm" the administration's efforts while simultaneously challenging Harvard to do more. He also said students must be willing to share the risks involved...
...draft will affirm free speech," said Elizabeth P. Berke, a reporter at the student newspaper. "I don't think students want to be restricted...