Sentence examples for action measure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama, speaking on Sunday in Chicago at the Unity '08 Convention, a gathering of minority journalists, said he was disappointed in Mr. McCain's position on the affirmative action measure.

Ward Connerly, the Sacramento businessman who sponsored the successful anti-affirmative action measure in 1996, is now gathering signatures to place his "Racial Privacy Initiative" on the state ballot in March of 2002.

A petition drive to place an anti-affirmative action measure on the statewide ballot was called off today by the man who started similar campaigns in California and Washington.

To take the evaders' actions into account, an action measure (AM) is defined over the evaders' PDs is used to represent the probability that the evader may transit each state in the PD.

I guess hiring him was some sort of affirmative action measure.

One possible refinement of dichotomous intermediate outcome measures is the clinical action measure.

Other spheres of government here have also supported affirmative action measures.

Affirmative action measures give Dalits preferential access to universities and government jobs.

"Female college graduates are much less likely to get jobs than men," said Lee Jung Woo, a presidential adviser on affirmative action measures.

"I am encouraged that president Obama is taking what I would regard as direct action measures to reduce emissions," Abbott said.

Moreover, many direct action measures cannot be scaled up, and, for those that can, the cost per tonne of abatement would rise rapidly, imposing further costs on taxpayers and consumers.