Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to sustain women's voices, you get involved in social change," she says. "We need to reaffirm one another's reality...
Moreover, College administrators should publicly reaffirm the rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual people by stating that homophobia has no place in a college community. Also, professors and housing personnel can invite speakers from Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual communities as well as outside facilitators to lead workshops and general discussions. Gay, lesbian and bisexual studies could also be included in the standard curriculum...
...issue was clearly hurtful, clearly offensive to many of us who disagree with its central proposition, it was not hateful. It was well within the bounds of intellectual discourse. Time and time again, Peninsula's writers deny that their opposition to homosexuality was motivated by hatred. They affirm and reaffirm that "We have no coercive capabilities; we wouldn't use them if we did." They make arguments--weak arguments, we think, but arguments nonetheless. To dismiss this issue as mere gay-bashing is simply unfair. The virulent ad hominem attacks proferred after the issue's publication, while understandable, were entirely...
...speeches and documents at this week's NATO summit in Rome, the 16 member heads of state and government will reaffirm their faith in the alliance and approve an updated Strategic Concept that has been in the making for more than a year. That 50-page policy statement calls for smaller, more mobile forces in Europe and for keeping NATO's multinational military command intact...
...saxophone on the side). And so the show could go on. But the Bolshoi leaders are aware that they still face a daunting challenge. "Our task is not to return to the world stage, which we had never left," says Valery Zakharov, the deputy general director, "but to reaffirm our place there...