The phrase "affirmative measures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing actions taken to promote equality or address discrimination, often in legal or policy discussions.
Example: "The government has implemented affirmative measures to ensure equal opportunities for all citizens."
Alternatives: "positive actions" or "proactive steps".
But if there is a possibility, albeit remote, that affirmative measures might produce the declarant, the obligation of good faith may demand their effectuation.
In one category, the leaker must have authorised access to classified information; he must reveal the agent's identity intentionally; the government must be taking "affirmative measures" to conceal the agent.
Officials must foster integration by such affirmative measures as gerrymandering school boundaries to include both races, pairing 'white' and 'Negro' schools, and drawing school zones that combine noncontiguous areas in racially diverse neighborhoods".
The Master noted a marked contrast between the quality of water regulation and control in Colorado, which routinely monitors and takes affirmative measures to eliminate waste, e.g., Tr. 515524, 3 and that provided by New Mexico with respect to the Vermejo River.
Professor Omarova closed her written testimony with the admonishment that if Congress truly wants to foster economic growth, it should take affirmative measures to assure adequate credit flows toward infrastructure and cutting-edge industry, rather than deregulating so as to permit a return to wealth-destroying, bubble-and-bust cycles in secondary markets.
In direct opposition to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which allows and in some cases requires affirmative measures to remedy historic discrimination, the Seattle and Louisville case held that school desegregation programs voluntarily adopted by school boards constitute unconstitutional racial discrimination.
Affirmative action measures give Dalits preferential access to universities and government jobs.
"Female college graduates are much less likely to get jobs than men," said Lee Jung Woo, a presidential adviser on affirmative action measures.
Three years after race-based admission policies were abolished at the University of California, the number of black, Hispanic and American Indian freshmen who will enter next fall has rebounded to above what it was when affirmative action measures were in place.
New York followed by adopting a "yes means yes" punitive policy and 12 other states and cities have since considered affirmative consent measures, according to Consent Gamechangers, a Florida-based advocacy organization.
