Word: reaffirming
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...brief, straightforward speech-and then came the surprise: parliamentary elections, she declared dramatically, would be held in March. "Let us go to the polls," she continued, "with the resolve to reaffirm the power of the people and to uphold the fair name of India as a land committed to the path of reconciliation, peace and progress...
...became the youngest member of Congress by virtue of a special election. He earned his degree years later, but still has not taken the bar examination. His style reminds people of Ted Kennedy and, like Kennedy, he still dresses in white shirts and blue suits, as if he must reaffirm his lace-curtain status...
...lesson of Watergate: "From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known: our Constitution works. And during the Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one-absolutely no one-is above...
...events that led to Entebbe, the Israelis say, reaffirm an argument they have made for years: skyjackings will continue unless foreign airlines become as cautious as Israel's own El Al. They note that only one El Al plane was ever successfully skyjacked. That was in 1968, and the airline has been on the "aggressive defensive" ever since...
...document included only one sentence on the subject. "We did not want the one countries to think we were ganging up on them," explained one U.S. official. Similarly, in referring to trade problems between the developed and underdeveloped worlds, the leaders expressed themselves only in platitudes. They did, however, reaffirm their determination to complete by the close of 1977 the multilateral trade negotiations, now under way in Geneva, that are aimed at further liberalization of trade...