(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.
Verify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
(v. t.) To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
(v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
(v. t.) To maintain; to affirm; to support.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(2) Measurement of adenosine in coronary effluent and in ventricular tissue by radioimmunoassay verified that no residual elevated adenosine remained following perfusion and washout.
(3) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
(4) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(5) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(6) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(7) In the other case, verified as bilateral multiple adrenocortical adenomas, the autonomus function of both adrenals was proved by dexamethasone suppression scanning.
(8) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
(9) The presence of pseudoaneurysm among the patients with abnormal scans was verified at operation in 23 of 25 patients.
(10) A clinical and electroencephalographic study of 107 neurologically normal children with partial seizures was undertaken to verify the existence and determine the frequency of epileptic syndromes reported in selected populations.
(11) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
(12) All four requirements were experimentally verified in calf trachea.
(13) A phase II trial aiming to verify the effectiveness of a regimen including carboplatin and vindesine was performed.
(14) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(15) In order to verify whether or not all the POMC neurons are equally affected by sex steroids, we arbitrarily divided the arcuate nucleus rostro-caudally into four equal portions and used an in situ hybridization technique to evaluate POMC gene expression in these different regions of the arcuate nucleus in the female rat.
(16) The actual existence of the specific mitochondrial glyoxalase II was verified by showing that all of the activity of the crude mitochondrial pellet was still present in purified mitochondria prepared in a Ficoll gradient.
(17) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
(18) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
(19) In the majority of the children, the diagnosis was verified by the results of a histological study of liver biopsy specimens.
(20) The pirlimycin reaction product was verified as being pirlimycin-3-(5'-adenylate) by NMR spectroscopy and MS. As a result of purification, this lincosaminide nucleotidylating and inactivating enzyme was separated from the macrolide phosphorylating enzyme also present in the cell-free extract.