Sentence examples for affirmative power from inspiring English sources

The vision of the world could hardly be bleaker, yet Mizoguchi spins an astonishing affirmative power out of the purely formal qualities of his art: his densely textured, deep-focus compositions, the ineffable grace of his camera movements, the subtle repetition of sounds and images.

It said that a "federal civil rights cause of action" is established "pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, as well as under Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution".

Our federal government has no inherent powers, only delegated (and therefore limited) powers--it cannot bind private citizens without pointing to an affirmative power grant in the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has long interpreted this affirmative grant of power as containing a negative implication: the states themselves may not regulate interstate commerce.

The nominee's Reagan-era memos show him urging positions on school prayer, affirmative action, presidential power and other constitutional issues that are strikingly similar to the positions that led to Robert H. Bork's defeat.

With no less justice, many Democrats laud him for his affirmative views of federal power and expansive interpretation of the Constitution.

Post-blackness entails a different perspective from earlier generations', one that takes for granted what they fought for: equal rights, integration, middle-class status, affirmative action and political power.

Biomedicine is linked therefore to a 'non-negative, hospitable' immunity (ibid: 54) within an affirmative biopolitics becoming 'the power to preserve life' (2008: 46).

Unless we decide that all college degrees confer the same access to power and influence, affirmative action is necessary.

He largely failed in speeding the pace of executions, ending affirmative action, and returning significant power to the states.

As the ranks of leaseholders are swelled by his right-to-buy policy, the minister should take affirmative action to level the power imbalance, improve practice and give leaseholders real access to their rights.