Example sentences for: affirming

How can you use “affirming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They are mistakes at sentence level rather than word level; prosodic rather than lexical mistakes; mistakes of stress, intonation, and syntactic segmenting: in effect, accentuating the wrong word or syllable, modulating the pitch incorrectly (a rising rather than falling tone, say, or a questioning rather than affirming tone), and pausing in the wrong place.

  • But Barak's aides, while affirming that "no peace process shall prevail over the personal security of the people of Israel," rejected the premise that the former threatened the latter.

  • "Were the Senate to adjourn and make these findings [affirming the House's conclusions], it would deny the President an acquittal--the result he craves for his own historic legitimacy.

  • Accused of using a private company to carry his campaign loans, DeLay had trouble affirming or denying his connection to the business, answering with Clintonesque equivocations.

  • The LAT , in its front-page piece, has this too but adds the detail that, at the insistence of Egypt, the U.S. has also accepted language in the resolution affirming the territorial integrity and independence of Iraq.


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