Word: reaffirms
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...that fateful day, we should honor the spirit of service that unites us at a time when too many neighbors remain strangers to one another. Connections in the midst of crises can make our communities stronger. As we review the past and look forward to the future, let us reaffirm one example of hope for health that arose out of the ashes...
...Last month, the U.N. Security Council voted to reaffirm existing sanctions in response to Iran's continued defiance of the demand that it suspend uranium enrichment. Iran has long made clear it has no intention of heeding that demand, and the sanctions that back it are having no discernible effect on Tehran's position. But Russia and China will ensure that the Security Council does not substantially escalate its sanctions. Still, the Bush Administration has precious few diplomatic alternatives but to the U.N. process and the milquetoast sanctions in produces as a result of the substantially different views...
...instigation isn't coming exclusively from McCain. A group calling itself 18 Million Voices paraded and rallied outside Denver's convention center to reaffirm their commitment to Clinton - and to vent their considerable frustrations. Between drags of a Seneca menthol cigarette, Andy Colón, a lifelong Democrat who was raised in New York, works in construction in Colorado Springs and volunteered much of this past spring for Clinton, said he's lost faith. "Am I disgusted and fed up with the Democratic Party? You better believe it," Colón said...
...generally want to conserve, and that requires a reverence for the past. What McCain's title implies is that patriotism isn't a choice; it's an inheritance. Being born into a nation is like being born into a religion or a family. You may be called on to reaffirm the commitment as you reach adulthood--as McCain did by joining the military--but it is impressed upon you early on, by those who have come before...
...anything that you do [as a politician] and we all do it, I think. We all for some reason put public servants who are in the political world through a different type of scrutiny. The reality that I’m learning in my life, and trying to reaffirm in my life, is that you can’t get caught up in what people think or you’re never going to do what you’re called...