Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans summarized the official sentiment this way: "I'm an attorney, and I know the arguments for and against affirmative action well enough to argue either side.
The family may also include extinct languages such as the Guanche languages of the Canary Islands, Old Libyan (Numidian), and Old Mauretanian, which are known from inscriptions but have not yet been studied thoroughly enough to make any affirmative generalizations about their linguistic characteristics.
In addition, the artifacts must contain more than just file fragments and enough to establish an affirmative link between user and session.
Despite the lack of concern about Fields by surrounding secret service agents, this was enough to provide Lewandowski with an affirmative defense to the charge of battery.
Finally, an entity powerful enough to challenge food manufacturing conglomerates takes affirmative action against advertising food to children that we don't, as a society, actually want them to eat.
Back then, even Clinton's well-known surname and extensive political experience was not enough to carry her against Obama's affirmative message.
The support of New York - and, hopefully, the Regional Branch Division (SAG's branches throughout the country) - is not enough to obtain a strike authorization (which requires 75% affirmative vote of those voting).
A switch of one vote in the current cases might well have made all affirmative-action programmes illegal.Moreover, the court's decisions are not clear-cut enough to stop a stream of further legal cases testing what it now means by an acceptable approach to affirmative action.
In a week full of other contrasts -- the Supreme Court embraced both affirmative action and gay rights, and the original Dixiecrat, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, also died -- the state of Georgia had enough to contend with on its own.
Conservatives do face some bias and are wildly underrepresented in the social sciences; enough, perhaps, to warrant new affirmative efforts to increase political pluralism in academia.
