Word: reaffirm
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...member denomination was the first to face the full implications of the sexual revolution. As far back as 1970, a church panel, echoing Fletcher's approach, declared that "sexual expression . . . cannot be confined to the married and about-to-be-married." Irate traditionalists got that year's assembly to reaffirm the sinfulness of adultery, fornication and homosexual practice, but their motion passed by a paper-thin margin...
...have a message for the Kennedy School: We will not accept this kind of cowardice. We expect the Kennedy School to reaffirm its support to encourage gay and lesbian faculty and students to bring their backgrounds and interests to Harvard. Morris Ratner HLS Coalition for Civil Rights Charlie Flatt '92 and Sheila Allen '93 Harvard College BGLSA and five other leaders of gay and lesbian groups from Harvard's graduate schools
That is why -- despite its veneer of banana-republic brinkmanship -- the current congressional revolt is a return to pre-Reaganite tradition. The President's weather-vane vacillation has forced the House to reaffirm its constitutional role as originator of taxation and spending measures. The result: the eruption of the long-suppressed ideological debate over the size and scope of the Federal Government...
Though the Germans go to great lengths to reaffirm the strength and durability of the Bonn-Paris axis, France is fretting about the possibility of a Europe dominated by Germany. "What worries the French," says Gerald Long, former managing director of Reuters, "is the success of their own policy of locking Germany firmly into the European Community." It is not admitted publicly in Paris, but French officials shudder at the numbers: unified Germany's gross national product is $1.1 trillion, France's $762 billion. Almost 70% -- or $62 billion -- of the Federal Republic's trade surplus of $90 billion...
...constitutions of both East and West Germany recognize the Oder-Neisse line, but German Chancellor Helmut Kohl created an international flap when he suggested that a reunification treaty could not reaffirm that understanding without the consent of the united German parliament...