Sentence examples for affirmative, he does from inspiring English sources

(When I ask my father if he intended the sequence as an homage to the Scorsese film, he claims not to remember having seen it. And then he does a thing I hate. He asks his wife if they've seen "Goodfellas". And when she responds in the affirmative he does something that I hate even more. He asks her if he liked it).

When the book ends with the apparent defeat of affirmative action, he doesn't draw the conclusion that the majority of the public in California had affirmed the legitimacy of the SAT and the meritocracy, though that might seem to be the obvious inference.

And he said that while he has raised concerns about affirmative action, he did not support efforts to ban it.

When asked if he thought others should follow suit, he replied in the affirmative, though tempered that he didn't want to live in a country where it was necessary.

He was seeking to establish his credentials as a champion of minorities because of concerns among some black delegates that he did not adequately support affirmative action.

* Romney's speech light on specifics: I find myself much in agreement with Mark Halperin: The speech was good on the personal stuff and had some attention grabbing lines in it; but the negativity about Obama was heavy handed and he didn't make a detailed enough affirmative case for what he'd do as president.

Affirmative action doesn't mean -- MR. BUSH -- Good.

Affirmative action doesn't give less worthy students an advantage over more worthy ones.

Formally, it is still angular and assertive, but its affirmative thrust does not mimic his domestic architecture.

Mr. Carter, 47, who is also the author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby," a nonfiction book critical of affirmative action, doesn't drink.

Affirmative action doesn't do anything for upward mobility, and it doesn't measure what it feels like to be a person of color working in a corporation.