The Report affirms that public opinion in South Carolina is decidedly in favor of the religious instruction of slaves, and that it has become far more general and systematic than formerly.
He affirms that both these schisms, so different in motive and direction, had their origin in events dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
He affirms elsewhere that crimes by constitutional authorities--by Popes and Kings--are more indefensible than those committed by private malefactors.
If man has a spirit, the objector affirms that animals, too, must have one.
St. Justin affirms that the sibyls foretold events correctly, and quotes Plato as coinciding with him in that view.
It affirms the duality of our intellectual life, but it explains it, and with natural causes.
Mathews even affirms that "the belief in the reincarnation or transmigration of souls is strongly enrooted in all the Australian tribes.
The former is called cause, the latter, effect, and the causal judgment affirms the existence of a necessary connection between these two moments for every force.
He does not tell us man is a monkey, but he affirms that man expresses his feelings in the same manner as do these animals.
This he affirms must proceed, not from "deadness in trade," but from "some mismanagement in the office.
In this case Mr. Secretary Boyle affirms that the packet agent received a bribe of two guineas.
He repudiates as unfounded the charge that he has long ceased to consult the interests of the public, and affirms that in this cause he has of late years laboured even more abundantly than he did of old.
Its definition of the psychic affirms that they are processes of the nature of feeling, thinking, willing; and it must assert that there is such a thing as unconscious thinking and unconscious willing.
The Apostle unhesitatingly affirms those who hold and teach this falsehood are nothing less than antichrists; and he warns us as faithful followers of the true Christ not to receive them into our houses, nor bid them Godspeed.
If I rightly understand the language of Chief Justice TANEY, he insists that the Constitution expressly affirms the right of property in slaves.
Again; if the Constitution affirms this right, and was understood to do so by its framers, what was the need of the rendition clause?
We do not subscribe to the doctrine that the Constitution expressly affirms the right of property in slaves.
The report of the committee recognizes and affirms these rights of the South which have heretofore been denied or doubted.
The amendment of the Senator affirms there is property in a slave.
It will surprise many to be told that there is nothing in the Constitution about State equality, and especially nothing that affirms the equality of the new with the original States, even after 1808.
It distinctly affirms this long stretch of coast to have been discovered long before the Verrazzano voyage by the Portuguese and the Bretons and Normands, assigning to the Portuguese and French specific portions of it.
Hakluyt thus positively affirms that the old map to which he refers was given by Verrazzano himself to the king.
What, then, is this equality which democracy affirms as the true state of all men among themselves?
Francesco, and was assisted in them by many young men, Baldinucci affirms that he chiefly contributed to that dry manner which prevailed in Florence.
The Apostle distinctly affirms that the chalice and bread which he and his fellow Apostles bless is a participation of the body and blood of Christ.
Sir Thomas More affirms that, before the days of Wycliffe, there was an English version of the Scriptures, “by good and godly people with devotion and soberness well and reverently read.
He then plainlyaffirms that such a privilege would not be conceded in the New Dispensation, for He adds: “I say to you: whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another committeth adultery.
But Jesus, instead of claiming a divine parentage, impliedly affirms the fatherhood of Joseph.
Pliny also quotes Ctesias, but he slightly diverges, for he says it has azure eyes, and is of the colour of blood; he also affirms it can imitate the human speech.
And, whilst discoursing on Geese, he affirms that "some breed from Trees, as I said of Scotland Ducks in the former Chapter.
Let the ascetic not come boasting that he has freed his blood from the pressure of desire; the very importance which he ascribes to his victory but affirms the same power of the life-will.
Rawlinson affirms "is decidedly Cushite or Ethiopian," and the modern languages to which it makes the nearest approaches are those of Southern Arabia and Abyssinia.
As to their stature, the same writer affirms that "the men, in almost every instance, are of lofty stature, scarcely ever less than six feet.
Another story affirms that the heroine was a daughter of the King of Manua, and that he yielded her up as an offering to the sun in order to end the sacrifices by making her the saviour of the people.
Presber affirmsthat the moment when his royal host raised his glass and uttered the words: "Ein stilles Glas den Toten!
Professor Schiemann affirms that his good impression was strengthened by a visit to London during March and April, 1914, and reports a conversation which he had with Lord Haldane when dining privately with the latter in London.
The German Imperial Chancellor affirmsthat not one of them had been called up before five o'clock in the afternoon of that day.
What wonder that he was soon "in high request with the men of taste and literature," or that report affirms him to have been no less welcome in ranks of society not at all distinguished by a literary flavour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affirms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
