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Example sentences for: affirmation
How can you use “affirmation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In the words of Jose Angel Gutiérrez, as quoted by Arnoldo Vento, “La Raza is the affirmation of the most basic ingredient of our personality, the brownhood of our Indian ancestors wedded to all the other skin colors of mankind.
The fact is that English is, idiomatically, an extremely subtle language, with many taboos, particularly in the area of positive/negative statements and degrees of affirmation and negation.
For example, there is not only affirmation by demonstration (ergo, hence, therefore, accordingly , but there is also documentation by postulation (it can be assumed, we can suppose) and also validation by synthesization (basically, in truth, in a very real sense) as well as verification by substitution (that is to say, in other words, in short) . Similarly, there is not only confutation by disputation (on the contrary, notwithstanding, however, nevertheless) , but there is also negation by concession (despite, although, allowing that) and also, not least, refutation by capitulation (it might be argued, it would be easy to conclude) .
As Democrats eagerly tout their break-even performance in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races as a grand triumph, and as Republicans spin the same numbers into an affirmation of the conservative status quo, both sides are overlooking the election's most astonishing results: the ballot initiatives.
Editorialists called the verdict an affirmation that the truth matters more than 1) ideological fantasy and 2) self-promotion camouflaged by ideological fantasy.
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