Sentence examples similar to affirmative purposes from inspiring English sources

The jury could reasonably have found that such conduct had either the affirmative purpose to rattle or the effect of rattling the employee so that he could not perform his duties successfully.

To be meaningful, remembrance cannot be only backward-looking but must also have an affirmative purpose.

It is only worth it if it will serve an affirmative business purpose.

U.S. law also permits affirmative action for remedial purposes (with limitations).

The promise could be either negative (a promise not to do something, such as not using the land for commercial purposes) or affirmative (a promise to do something, such as maintaining a fence or paying an assessment to a homeowners association).

The letter calls for the FCC to "move forward as quickly as possible on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing strong rules to protect consumers from having their personal data collected and shared by their broadband provider without affirmative consent, or for purposes other than providing broadband Internet access service".

"I thought that the whole purpose of affirmative action was to help students who come from underprivileged backgrounds," Justice Alito said.

But in this instance they threaten to reopen the three-decade-old question about the nature and purpose of affirmative action.

But if diversity is the goal, the purpose of affirmative action shifts from improving the condition of blacks to transforming America into a multicultural society.

If the purpose of affirmative action is to redress past wrongs, then it requires both the minority and the majority to do the cultural work necessary to create what Martin Luther King Jr. called the "beloved community" of an integrated nation.

But this justification leads to what I call in my book a "diversity bargain," in that many white students see the purpose of affirmative action as to benefit them, through a diverse learning environment.