Word: reaffirm
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...reaffirm friendly relations with the U.S., Brazil's Senate finally voted...
...without the publicity of a Congressional investigation. If the churches remove these proven communists, the loyal ministers who constitute the other 99 per cent of Boston religious leaders will remain free to speak out on any issue without fear of accusation. Permitting the churches to take the initiative will reaffirm the ability of church leaders to check any communist threat...
Said President Lukus Somo: "We have come to reaffirm our faith in the old native customs and in the spirits of our ancestors." The witch doctors had another, more practical purpose: they wanted government recognition of their professional organization...
...which the Soviets had explicitly agreed that there should be no forced repatriation of prisoners. "Pretty good doctrine," Acheson murmured; why weren't they for it now? Then the U.S. Secretary of State formally called on the committee to uphold the U.N. negotiators at Panmunjom and to reaffirm their stand against forcible repatriation...
Cardinal Segura fears that Protestants might take advantage of loopholes in the bill of rights to proselytize for their religion; such activity is not expressly forbidden. He would like Spain's government to reaffirm the 1851 concordat-abrogated in 1931 by the Spanish Republic-which pledges the state to assist the Catholic bishops, "especially when they are compelled to oppose the wickedness of men who are attempting to pervert the souls of the faithful and to corrupt their morals . . ." This, by Cardinal Segura's definition, would include any airing of Protestant ideas or any Protestant worship for Spaniards...