The phrase "affirmative act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to refer to a positive action taken to express agreement or support.
Example: "The company’s decision to implement new safety measures was an affirmative act demonstrating its commitment to employee well-being."
Alternatives: "positive action" or "supportive measure".
"The reason this is concerning is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act.
599, 610, 30 L.Ed. 720, or to enjoin an affirmative act to the injury of plaintiff, Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378, 393, 53 S.Ct.
The fact that it is Kennedy making this case should be worrying to the law's defenders: The reason this is concerning is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act.
"Judge Scheindlin apparently believes that the affirmative act of actually signing a specific pledge may more dramatically impress jurors with their duty and increase the likelihood of obedience," Professor Gillers wrote in an e-mail message.
Cruz said he had been led to believe by his mother that it would have taken an affirmative act of claiming his Canadian citizenship, which the family had never done, to make it so.
The recklessly affirmative act with which this book begins is the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Galway, by the British pilots Alcock and Brown in 1919.
In all but two states, so-called affirmative acts of abuse are a felony on the first offense, though that can be subjective.
In requiring not only relief from active discrimination but affirmative acts of accommodation, the Americans With Disabilities Act goes further than what the equal protection guarantee itself requires.
Judge Kavanaugh replied that it was easy for courts to issue orders preventing something but more difficult for the courts to require "affirmative acts," like resuming a licensing hearing.
A brief review by Johanna Berkman for The New York Times faulted her 1998 book, "Affirmative Acts: Political Essays" (Anchor/Doubleday), for example, for "a far-fetched attempt to extract political significance from her oral surgery," as well as "frequent use of the overwrought prose of politically correct cliche".
How do you channel crushing grief into affirmative acts of kindness?
