It was affirming to see the instant, viral response to CLITERACY.
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It's deeply affirming to see women from all different professional backgrounds represented.
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"It's very affirming to be around someone as positive as Adhiambo," Mr. Trowe said.
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I think it's very life affirming to have skulls— makes you be kind of carpe diem-y.
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It was affirming to finally realize that other women also hated routine invasions of their personal space.
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That is why it was so affirming to hear Hillary Clinton refuse to cower and defend unconstitutional bans.
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It can also help to tell them what words you find most gender-affirming to describe different body parts.
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It is wonderful — and important, and life-affirming — to have allies, particularly as anti-Semitic violence spikes throughout the country.
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Recently, she accepted a position to help Latinx UCC churches in the U.S. become open and affirming to LGBTQ people.
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Clive Ives: After twenty years of obscurity, it has been wonderfully affirming to receive the amazing reviews for what we created.
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Over time, I hope that the direct gaze comes to feel as affirming to my hearing companions as it does to me.
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It can be considerably more fun and affirming to ride the growth curve than to try to shore up the status quo.
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It was a powerful stand by the President, very affirming to those of us who are in the 'Black Lives Matter' movement.
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With every book, with every question, with every overt display of ambivalence and disgust, he was affirming to us that we were contenders.
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"Everything that we basically don't want her to do," he said, affirming to the host that Everly is indeed smack-dab in the terrible twos.
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"This is my tool set, and if it offends you, then I hope you find the things that do feel affirming to you," she said.
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She said such schools can be "culturally affirming" to nonwhite children like her daughter, who may face discrimination from white teachers and administrators in traditional schools.
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In a world as crazy as ours, it's life-affirming to realize that you can connect with anyone as long as you're open to hearing them out.
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And such is the message of Michael Ian Black: affirming to young men that expression and vulnerability are things to be strived towards rather than ashamed of.
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"The Federal Reserve's actions are essentially a punctuation point affirming to all of us that interest rates are on the rise and expected to rise further," Hamrick said.
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Both scan as ruminations on loneliness, but the latter felt life-affirming to me, proof that one's existence can be as small and dazzling as any light seen across the water.
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School should always be a place for queer students to be themselves and it should be a place that's open and affirming to anyone who walks through their doors, especially queer and trans youth.
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And an all-hands-on-deck drive to secure Mueller's position risks simply affirming to officials tasked with enforcing the law in more banal ways that nobody is out there prepared to protect them.
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While the debate continues in Uganda until the final hearing in December, White from BIA said it was "affirming" to see how committed parents were to BIA in the short time they had children in their classes.
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It was simultaneously uncomfortable and moving and life-affirming to have my innermost troubles read out loud, as I laid prostrate under a bunch of smoking dried shrubbery while a stranger rested her hand on my solar plexus.
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"Some people go to therapy to help figure out who they are and what they want — who they want romantic and sexual relationships with, what gender modality will feel congruent and affirming to them, and so on," she says.
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With each of Rivera's three throws over — the final one nearly caught him — he gave a knowing nod, reinforcing to himself that he had the right lead and affirming to everyone in the ballpark that he was about to take off.
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Another option is given by Stefan Steingräber, who thinks the scenes were life-affirming, to be interpreted in clear contrast to the symbolism of death.
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The Disciples Alliance Q, an association of LGBTQ+ members, certifies congregations as "Open and Affirming" to show that they are accepting of all gender identities and sexual orientations. The process includes congregational workshops, information provided by the Alliance about what Open and Affirming means, and public witness to Open and Affirming ministries.
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Created in 1992, this 40-hectare ecological farm lived in autarky. Members produced their own fruits, vegetables, cheeses, milk and raised livestock, then sold them on the market. Affirming to be in relation with higher entities, Castano said to be the reincarnation of Nefertiti. The doctrine of the group, mainly related to ecology and New Age, focused on meditation, study of Egyptian civilization, cosmic energies, astrology and telepathy.
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The Sikhs forayed into Peshawar for the first time in 1818, but did not occupy the territory. The Sikhs entered the city of Peshawar for a second time, once again affirming to hold Peshawar as a tributary to the Sikh Court of Lahore. After attacking the city they burnt its fortress, the Bala Hissar. In 1836 all authority was taken from the Nawabs of Dera Ismail Khan and a Sikh Kardar appointed in their place.
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Primary Appraisal Components 1\. If there is goal relevance, then any emotion is possible, including love. 2\. If there is goal congruence, then only positive emotions are possible, including love. 3\. If the type of ego-involvement is desire for mutual appreciation, which is affirming to our ego-identity, then the emotion possibilities narrow to love (or at least liking); if to this is added sexual interest or passion, then love is romantic rather than companionate.
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In the April 1968, at the general conference held by the LDS Church, McKay's son David Lawrence McKay read a message on his father's behalf that was an edited version of the 1952 speech, including the omission of the word "beautiful" when describing the theory of evolution.David O. McKay, Conference Report, Apr. 1968, p. 92. In 1954, McKay quoted the Old Testament while affirming to members of the BYU faculty that living things only reproduce "after their kind".
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Moritz refuses and Ilse does everything she can to change his mind ("Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind"). After affirming to Ilse that he truly wished he could go with her, Moritz refuses and Ilse leaves – distraught and upset. Realizing that Ilse was his last chance to escape the fate he's set out for himself, Moritz quickly changes his mind and calls after her, but it is too late – she is gone. Alone and believing that he has nowhere to turn, Moritz shoots himself.
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However, others have noted that since McKean's resignation the ICOC has made numerous changes. The Christian Chronicle, a newspaper for the Churches of Christ, reports that the ICOC has changed its leadership and discipling structure. According to the paper, "the ICOC has attempted to address the following concerns: a top down hierarchy, discipling techniques, and sectarianism". In the years following McKean's resignation, the central leadership was replaced with "the co-operation agreement" with over 90% of the churches affirming to this new system of global co-ordination.
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The church also sold ladies dresses for use by women in the Armed Forces. For these reasons, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decided on 9 December 1954 that the church had contributed to the war effort and its members could therefore not be considered conscientious objectors. This was later reversed, and members of the church who refused induction into the armed forces were again treated as Conscientious Objectors. In 1955 a member of the church declined to use the word "solemnly" in affirming to tell the truth in court.
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Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli failed to gain ballot access in the race, further hurting Santorum's chances. Reportedly, several of Santorum's supporters had funded and petitioned for Romanelli to siphon away Democrats from Casey. Santorum was mired in controversy and spent much of his time on the campaign defending his past statements and positions. He faced criticism from Casey and others for several statements in his book, It Takes a Family, including his denunciation of 1960s "radical feminism", which he said had made it "socially affirming to work outside the home" at the expense of child care.
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Explaining her motivation, she said in an interview, "My work is not about me, it's about us." Not only does her work serve to emphasize the contributions and aspirations of the African Diaspora but also works to create a "visual landscape that is nurturing and life affirming to people of color" in celebrating the beauty of African Americans. One of her best known works is a 13-foot bronze likeness of Alex Haley, which was installed in the Haley Heritage Square Park in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1998. Her statue of George Washington Carver is the focal point of the George Washington Carver Garden at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis.
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Drag Queen Story Hour started in 2015 in San Francisco, and was created by author Michelle Tea, then the Executive Director of the nonprofit Radar Productions; the first events were organized by Juli Delgado Lopera and Virgie Tovar. Tea, who identifies as queer, came up with the idea after attending children's library events with her newborn son and finding them welcoming but heteronormative. She imagined an event that was more inclusive and affirming to LGBTQ families. The first event was held at the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library in the LGBT Castro neighborhood of San Francisco and featured drag queen Persia and was well received.
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These churches were located in cities such as Atlanta and Nashville; subsequent UCC new church starts in the Conference (e.g., Huntsville, Alabama and suburban Atlanta) have generally modeled themselves after this group, which has provided the dominant ethos to the UCC nationally ever since its inception. By the mid-20th century, these became among the first Euro-American churches in the region to protest racial segregation and deeply involve themselves with advocating on African-Americans' behalf. And, since the 1990s especially, several of these have become Open and Affirming to LGBTQ populations, endorsing a stance to refrain from denying membership to those professing alternative sexual orientations, a move against the dominant social attitudes in the region.
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By 1917, Germany and Imperial Russia were stuck in a stalemate on the Eastern Front of World War I and the Russian economy had nearly collapsed under the strain of the war effort. The large numbers of war casualties and persistent food shortages in the major urban centers brought about civil unrest, known as the February Revolution, that forced Emperor (Tsar/Czar) Nicholas II to abdicate. The Russian Provisional Government that replaced the Tsar in early 1917 continued the war. Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov sent the Entente Powers a telegram, known as Milyukov note, affirming to them that the Provisional Government would continue the war with the same war aims that the former Russian Empire had.
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His work took him to Syria a number of times, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Libya, and Bahrain. Sotloff was the reporter that broke the Benghazi story, affirming to CNN that there was no protest that caused the killings and destruction, as U.S. media had initially reported. His greatly detailed story was hailed as "an excellent piece of journalism" by CNN's Suzanne Malveaux. In 2012 he reported in Time magazine about Al-Qaeda fighters and commanders from Libya flocking to Syria and shipping Libyan captured arms and ammunition on its way to join the fight to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime.Steven Sotloff’s Reporting for TIME (Time magazine website, September 3, 2014Libya's flawed attempt to soak up a flood of weaponry September 30, 2012 (Time website) He was also one of a team of reporters who returned to the compound in Benghazi where the US ambassador and three other Americans had been killed on the night of 9/11 that year.
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