The phrase "affirmative sense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a positive or confirming interpretation of a statement or situation.
Example: "In an affirmative sense, the results of the study support the hypothesis that exercise improves mental health."
Alternatives: "positive interpretation" or "confirmatory meaning".
Our data seem to answer this question in the affirmative sense.
"There are anywhere from two to four dozen members who don't have an affirmative sense of governance," said Representative Charlie Dent, Republican of Pennsylvania.
In both instances, the music is fused with racist sentiment, first in an affirmative sense and then in a critical one.
(And she's equally convincing as a codger singing "Children and Art," and coquette delivering a sublime rendition of the title song). These qualities conspire to imbue "Move On," Marie's final plea to George to pick up where his great-grandfather, the pointillist, left off, with an affirmative sense of a picture that's taken all evening to complete.
They talk about how African-Americans of their class and generation feel the weight of race most acutely in relation to affirmative action, sensing that whites often think they have not truly earned their place at Harvard or Princeton or on the medical faculty.
Warikoo explains how students could also see the world through more than one frame, like Orin, a white student who felt that affirmative action made sense (diversity frame) but also felt that some "cultures" didn't emphasize education as much as others and therefore students in those cultures would be less motivated to go to school — an example of the culture of poverty frame.
Meaningful, for instance, are thoughts that, arising from one of thinking's partners, meet the approval, the affirmative "It makes sense," of the other.16.
The above discussion does however leave open the following question (see [265] for some partial results), which should have an affirmative answer (in the sense that each family of complex structures should contain some Abelian variety).
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a professor at Harvard Law School and an adviser on black issues to Mr. Obama, said some of Mr. Obama's supporters were "obviously concerned about whether this is a retreat from a commitment to affirmative action in its classical sense".
A careful reading of the University of Texas opinion makes clear that affirmative action, in any practical sense, will follow shortly thereafter, not through overruling of prior precedents but by setting the bar for race-conscious remedies so high that it cannot be overcome.
Should that happen, it may make sense for supporters of affirmative action to focus more heavily on broader concerns about social mobility.
