Word: reaffirming
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...those frequent occasions when their country careens toward yet another seemingly insoluble crisis, Brazilians like to reaffirm their abiding faith in last-minute miraculous rescues. "God," they say, "is a Brazilian." If ever Brazil needed divine intervention...
Perhaps Begin's most provocative gesture was to reaffirm his previously stated intention to move the Prime Minister's office to East Jerusalem, which the Israelis annexed after occupying it during the Six-Day War of 1967. No nation in the world has recognized Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem; the U.S. has long held that the future status of the Holy City must be negotiated as part of an overall Middle East peace treaty...
There are real surprises here, timed adroitly and written with fine economy. But in an alien context, they merely reaffirm James as a mystery writer. Hers is a tough, literal mind, an exacting memory that knows where files are kept and where administrators hide their short cuts. The free-floating menace and dread in the novels of Diane Johnson or Beryl Bainbridge do not suit James because - like a classic mystery writer - she pins down her characters. Innocent Blood is full of cold people who have too little to do. One lays down the book half-satisfied, but with...
...line with its findings, the committee recommended that the University reaffirm its commitment to affirmative action and that the Core Curriculum include courses specially dealing with race relations. "The lack of women and minorities on the Faculty reinforces student perceptions of prejudice," Cepeda said, adding, "There simply aren't enough role models for minorities at Harvard." Epps said only one course here deals with the Hispanic and Asian American experience, adding, "The University has responded to a lot of problems abroad, but there is this one area that is missing." Despite some student committee members' wishes that undergraduates be required...
...College should reaffirm its commitment to affirmative action to increase the number of minority Faculty...