Sentence examples for affirmative construction from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the affirmative construction with 可 kě yǐ), it never expresses root possibility (Meisterernst 2008b).

This question is: "When your employer provides ergonomic measures, are you willing to use them?" If the question is answered in the affirmative, construction workers are considered to have the motivation to work with ergonomic measures.

The letter also called for specific language in the legislation requiring affirmative action in construction employment, purchasing and contracts within the district.

In the area of civil rights, Nixon's administration instituted so-called "set aside" policies to reserve a certain percentage of jobs for minorities on federally funded construction projects the first "affirmative action" program.

Motivation is considered as good at company level when at least 75% of the construction workers answered the question in the affirmative.

She attributes her success in part to the Transportation Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprises program, a form of affirmative action that allocates 10percentt of federal money for highway and railroad construction to businesses run by women and minorities.

But in 1987 he decided to take advantage of the affirmative action law and opened his own firm, Brian Smith Construction Inspection Inc., providing not architecture but construction management.

A federal appeals court ruled that the City of Denver can show preference to construction companies owned by minorities and women, upholding the city's affirmative action law.

" 'Racial classification'... is a lawyer's construction that covers a host of very different policies: de jure segregation and affirmative action, racial profiling by police and the use of race in the census".

Despite this affirmative, mainly for various historic reasons beyond the scope of the present paper, the Brazilian construction industry has not fully exploited the considerable potential of this structural solution.

Ivan loved the unusual construction, and asked the architect, "Think you can build another?" When the architect answered in the affirmative, Ivan blinded him.