(n.) Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
(n.) The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.
(n.) That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.
(n.) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath.
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.
Predication
Definition:
(n.) The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.
(n.) Preaching.
Example Sentences:
(1) His proposals are therefore predicated on a cut in potential income for EU migrants being sufficient to slow the numbers of poorer EU migrants coming to the UK.
(2) Clinical evaluation and management should be predicated upon pathophysiologic considerations, with examination technique and extent individualized for each case.
(3) Such an overall approach, here developed from the model of carrageenin-induced inflammation, also predicates that lysosomal enzymes, lipid peroxide and proamidase (related, respectively, to the inflammatory response in a narrow sense, to tissue damage and to tissue repair) are three basic parameters required when studying inflammatory processes.
(4) Interpretation of plasma concentration data during encainide therapy is predicated on an understanding of the role of active metabolites during treatment.
(5) Their use must be predicated by a differentiation of which arterial segments are hemodynamically involved, yet this determination may not be possible even after extensive noninvasive and invasive investigation.
(6) This level of diagnostic skills is predicated upon the ability to make a judgment on the basis of inherently ill-defined and insufficient data or, in other words, upon the ability to use rules and procedures of clinical inference.
(7) Immunologic mechanisms involved in tumor cell destruction are predicated principally on in vitro procedures, but the relevancy of these experimental observations to the actual events in vivo remains unclear and unresolved.
(8) Therefore, although impaired breathing may complicate swallowing dysfunction and vice versa, it does not appear that one can be predicated from the other.
(9) Appropriate changes in public health policy need not be predicated on results from still further studies.
(10) Since my correspondent refused to be named, I felt there was little to be gained from meeting him as my deservedly award-winning non-fiction had always been predicated on full disclosure.
(11) Although chest radiology is the first imaging option in evaluating patients for pulmonary manifestations of drug toxicity, the limitations of the pattern approach often predicate the use of other imaging techniques in addition to clinical and laboratory evaluation.
(12) These studies were predicated on observations that subjects who were more resistant to SMS had higher plasma AVP after severe nausea than subjects with lower resistances.
(13) The present discussion suggests an alternative explanation making reference to text-level representations, and particularly to the lexicalization of predicates.
(14) Their starting predicate – that the old ways of traditional media are inefficient and scream to be changed – is one reason why Google has fundamentally misread the reaction of publishers and authors to its quest to digitise the 20m or so books ever published.
(15) Most of the research on the regulation of immune responses has been predicated on the assumption that such regulation is accomplished by the interacting components of the immune system itself, e.g.
(16) Reliance on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the thyroid as the key determinant whether to observe only or proceed surgically is predicated on achieving a minimal false-negative error rate (the incidence of malignant disease in nodules diagnosed benign by means of FNA).
(17) "Ninety-nine per cent of decisions are predicated on feelings – instinctive, emotional, fears, conflicts, unresolved childhood problems.
(18) Furthermore, equivalency and superiority of antigingivitis agents or devices should be predicated, at least in part, on their ability to prevent the onset of periodontitis.
(19) The assay is predicated on the ability of immobilized monoclonal antibody to distinguish glycated albumin from all other plasma proteins, followed by detection and quantitation of the bound glycoalbumin with an enzyme-conjugated second antibody directed against human albumin.
(20) It was a voice that was predicated on inclusion and difference, multiple perspectives not a single dominant view.