A speech act succeeds in reaching understanding when the hearer takes up "an affirmative position" toward the claim made by the speaker (TCA 1: 95–97; 282; 297).
In 2011, we actually saw the specter of default raised to something that was an affirmative position some were saying was better than the alternative.
"It just became clear to me that we needed to have a more affirmative position".
Since then, Obama has had a long, exhausting dance with Hillary Rodham Clinton -- a parody of all those years that white women and men "of color" jockeyed for position in the affirmative action stakes.
We argue that the modern diversity rationale lies at some distance from her arguments, but that we have good reason to reorient affirmative action to keep her original position in view, even as it continues to move forward.
His record on affirmative action is defined, in the eyes of conservatives, by his role in developing the administration's position in the case last year in which the United States Supreme Court generally preserved affirmative action in university admissions.
The federal government, which supported the University of Texas in the case decided in June, took no position in the new one, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, No. 12-682.
Following his own prescription for an affirmative and constructive philosophy, Williams worked steadily towards the development of his own distinctive position in metaphysics.
Harvard hired Warren for a temporary position in 1992, and the law school reported a Native American woman on its federally mandated affirmative-action report.
Sudie Reid-Coles Cranston, R.I., April 11 , 2010To the Editor: Justice John Paul Stevens, you note correctly in your editorial ("Justice Stevens," April 10), took a conservative position on affirmative action in the seminal Bakke case.
