You cannot treat the second that way; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others.

The terrorists succeeded in wiping an American landmark off the map; building nothing in its place will simply affirm their crime.

As for the Tongass forest, they said, they were simply affirming the position of the Clinton administration.

They give the credit of their success to their Alma mater which simply affirm the truth stated above.

In doing so, Congress simply affirmed the definition of marriage that predates our Nation and every other nation throughout history.

All subsequent witnesses simply affirmed Pere's testimony, adding that so had they heard from their fathers and grandfathers.

It is as though some of these participants were simply affirming their own absolute form of faith, leaving material support behind.

I simply affirmed what your bourgeois conscience wanted to hear.

We simply affirmed life in his dying season and helped him arrive at the end with dignity and peace, but not without sadness.

He quietly and simply affirms the value of the individual mind.