Word: reaffirm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also provides, in Section II, "The Group reaffirm the principle that in each institution the academic authorities should control athletics." And it specifies the Presidents' Policy Committee, made up of all eight presidents, as the body that ultimately determines all Group policies...
...summit" meeting in Moscow: Communist leaders from everywhere have been marshaled to reaffirm Soviet supremacy against China's challenge, but China's Mao Tse-tung has deprived Nikita Khrushchev of acquiescence at the one point where acquiescence counts decisively in the Communist faith-at the summit itself. He sent his No. 2 man instead. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Winter-Garden Summit...
Officially, the Red leaders had arrived in Moscow to help celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Actually, they had been marshaled to reaffirm the primacy of Soviet leadership at a "Red summit," and thereby head off a power struggle between Peking and Moscow...
...time of decision is upon us. Either we stand up together, united, or we may lose the opportunity for a political, moral, and spiritual rebirth of American democracy. If this battle is lost at home, It may be lost throughout the world. Either the people and their leaders reaffirm their faith in action or they accept... tyranny.... The choice is simple, though the consequences are profound. I have made my choice and I believe the people are making theirs."--William H. Meyer...
Commenting on Nixon's letter, Salvador E. Luria, professor of Microbiology at M.I.T., asserted that development has nothing to do with defense, that a deadlier weapon or larger stockpile is no protection. He further deplored the policy of the present Administration, which has refused to reaffirm a resolution made by President Roosevelt in 1943 to the effect that the U.S. would not use gas or germ warfare unless it was first used by an enemy...