(v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
(v. t.) To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.
(v. t.) To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.
(v. i.) To declare or assert positively.
(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
(2) Such identification would have a useful application in affirming the possible zoonotic transmission of animal source Giardia species to humans.
(3) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
(4) Their presence was a political affirmation that in Germany the arts matter.
(5) An affirmative result for the preamble was obtained in this study.
(6) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
(7) This finding does not affirm the belief that protection of adult skin from exposure to the sun will reduce the risk from melanoma.
(8) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
(9) Although the ADA provides for Americans with disabilities to be included in American society, it has some major limitations, including the lack of an affirmative action requirement and of provisions for the education and training of persons with disabilities so that they can qualify for employment.
(10) BBC’s new iPlay service affirms commitment to children’s broadcasting Read more “The innovations we’ve proposed today are the start of a new model for the BBC.
(11) If the answer is affirmative, development of the pregnancy represents represents a test of particular biological value in assessing the efficiency of ressuscitation therapy; 2.
(12) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
(13) The most behaviorally potent analogues examined, DOB, DOM, and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, were found to possess rather high affirmities (pA2 = 7.35, 7.12, and 7.08, respectively) for the 5-HT receptors of the model system.
(14) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
(15) The situation of self-affirmation was (1) that subjects affirmed the self in private or (2) that the experimenter also affirmed the subject's self or (3) that the experimenter added information of another one who had the same aspect of self the subjects had affirmed.
(16) Study results can neither reject nor affirm the validity and applicability of the Easterlin hypothesis.
(17) Behaviors were classified as providing affect, affirmation, or aid support.
(18) Our commitment to liberty is America's tradition - declared at our founding; affirmed in Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms; asserted in the Truman Doctrine and in Ronald Reagan's challenge to an evil empire.
(19) Affirmative results were obtained to prove that diffusion-absorption on carbon-desorption dosimetry is applicable to monitor exposure to mixed vapors of organic solvents (n-hexane:ethyl acetate:toluene=1:4:1).
(20) We are also grateful to Judge Shreier for writing such a detailed and powerful analysis and for affirming in such strong terms that same-sex couples have the same fundamental freedom to marry as others.” Opponents of same-sex marriage have long argued that the issue should be decided by state governments, not courts.
Concur
Definition:
(v. i.) To run together; to meet.
(v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
(v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
(v. i.) To assent; to consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(2) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
(3) These do not concur with clinical experience but the figures for overt resistance, at 39% and 69%, correspond with expected non-responders to these regimes.
(4) Key informants concurred that general health settings and multiservice agencies were the most appropriate for reaching Mexican Americans, and that mental health services must include bilingual and bicultural staff members.
(5) The surgical residents and a consultant surgeon at the hospital where she was treated concurred with the diagnosis of the referring medical officer.
(6) In combination with an extensive neuropsychological test battery, the three methods produce data that concur with the evaluation made of EEG recordings.
(7) Overall, the findings of ultrasonography concurred with those of urography in 144 cases (93%).
(8) These two sets of data concur to show that tumor growth rate or proliferation rate correlates with the probability of metastatic dissemination.
(9) Thomas appeared to concur: "We are not concerned with whether this is a good case or a bad case but whether what is charged amounts to a crime."
(10) We report here our experience with 16 such patients (13 males, 3 females) and concur with the original observers on the benign nature of this syndrome.
(11) Measurements conducted in plexiglas, animal muscle, kidney and brain concur with tabulated values and show a scatter from 5-15 percent from the mean; measurements made in perfused muscle and brain compare well with the nonperfused values.
(12) Maximal velocity of LSC measured at saturating intracellular lithium concentration was lower in the patients than in the controls; this may concur with previous reports on possible links between impaired activity of LSC and bipolar affective illness.
(13) Simon Pryor, natural environment director at the National Trust , concurred: “This report shows that government should take the time to get biodiversity offsetting right.
(14) The present results relative to cytotoxicity of macrophages derived from the CFC concur with and extend our previous findings indicating that the cytotoxic property of macrophages originates in its ancestral stem cell or CFC and that factors responsible for increasing the CFC population do not selectively stimulate precursor cells responsible for production of the cytotoxic macrophage.
(15) Finally, a report on the use of behaviour therapy for an autistic child is outlined in order to explore the psychobiological correlations between social behaviour and language, which concur with extensive experiments on brain stimulation.
(16) Assessing the time of injury based on clinical records concurred with prenatal origin in 32% of the children thought to have prenatal origin of hemiplegia by CT.
(17) While most physicians concur, they disagree as to the volume of lung needing to be resected to achieve the best survival results.
(18) These results concur with previously reported levels of insulin secretion in the perfused rat pancreas.
(19) This finding concurs with a previous report and raises the possibility that HLA-DR2 may be associated with Paget's disease of bone, probably by predisposing the bone cells to viral infection.
(20) As for the rib-diameter Homo concurs more with the Pongidae than with the Cercopithecidae.