Word: reaffirming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Napoleon, Russia's Peter the Great are national heroes, who specifically did something for the greater glory of the nation and can be claimed by no other country. But the U.S.'s Washington and Lincoln, Wilson and Kennedy are celebrated for the ideals they championed. They reaffirm the American idea of itself as a nation dedicated not to power but to ideals. In that sense, the U.S. needs heroes more than ever...
...seemed late in the day for the Supreme Court to feel the urge to reaffirm those rights, the court itself was at least partially to blame. "We dealt with certain phases of this problem recently," Warren said, "in Escobedo v. Illinois." In that case, the court overturned a murder rap against Danny Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) because Chicago police had extracted a confession from him after denying him access to a lawyer he asked for-a lawyer who was also in the police station asking to see him. The generalities with which the court disposed of that specific problem...
Awareness of Evil. Despite its sweeping concerns, Commentary is essentially a Jewish magazine. It was started and subsidized by the American Jewish Committee, which was anxious to reaffirm Jewish life and traditions after Hitler. But from the very first issue, Commentary avoided the insularity and defensiveness typical of many Jewish publications. In a revulsion against radical ideology, Editor Eliot Cohen sought out strong individual opinion and refused to tout any political line. In the 1950s, Commentary became a leading exponent of so-called "liberal revisionism," an attempt to make liberal thought less dogmatic, more aware of life's evils...
...vice president of the enlarged pontifical commission that meets for the first time in Rome this week-and faces up to its dilemma: How can the church now open the way toward birth control without contradicting the dogmatic-sounding condemnation of past Popes? But how can the church reaffirm the old prohibition and not face the formal disobedience of millions who feel that they have no other choice...
...single-handedly--as Crane seemed to imply--sowed the disscent that brought Curry down. Cran'e speech was more significant for its tone than its substance: this fight was a personal one, and its intent was not merely to keep John J. Curry as city manager, but to reaffirm the administration of the Crane-Curry era. Crane, in short, has become combattant because he reads both conspiracy and challenge into the manager's dismissal...