Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However debatable the issues may seem, what could be more disheartening than a Democrat who sides with the advocates of capital punishment with the argument that, "It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that we affirm the highest value of human life...
...like our Puritan forefathers, we New Englanders need to punish ourselves, and to insulate ourselves from the heathen. By banding together to affirm our allegiance to the Almighty Sox-Bruins-Celts, we share a communal misery (and occasionally a communal jubilation) that confirms our faith and purifies our sporting souls...
Chants of "Cory! Cory!" filled the room as Corazon Aquino, 52, spoke into the microphone. "I hereby affirm my candidacy and confirm my willingness if elected to serve our people as President of the Republic of the Philippines." With that declaration, the widow of slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr.--a career housewife and mother of five who has never before run for office--ended weeks of speculation and confirmed that she would ) oppose President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, in a snap election called...
...others see The Game as a way for both schools to affirm their superiority to the other Ivies. Alan Brinkley, associate professor of American History and a Princeton grad, says, "I think it's a way in which Harvard and Yale confirm their view of themselves as being special places...
...communication between Rome and religious orders. It did not refer specifically, however, to the unsettled dispute between the Vatican and 24 U.S. sisters who last year signed a pro- choice newspaper advertisement on abortion. The Vatican has threatened to expel those sisters from their orders if they do not affirm church teaching...