Sentence examples for affirmative from inspiring English sources

Anwar said that if he formed the next government, he would root out corruption and end a system of affirmative action for ethnic Malays, more than half of the 27 million population.

The idea of affirmative and enthusiastic consent encourages people to regard sex as a positive, willing action.

I'd like to think it's one of hopeful, affirmative action, but perhaps that's too romanticised.

Whatever it was that Victoria did, it was sufficient for Jordan to answer in the affirmative when an interviewer inquired whether Mrs Beckham had benefited from "work" to her top half.

To counter his opponents in the party, Mr Najib therefore needs to capitalise quickly on his own popularity to reform more boldly: to complete the demolition of the affirmative-action edifice; to go further in improving civil liberties; and, above all, to make the electoral system fairer.

UMNO forced through the affirmative-action policies for Malays in the early 1970s.

("One-quarter of you people seem OK; the rest of you are lazy affirmative-action moochers" does not an election win).