"affirmative side" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of debating or arguing, and generally means the side of an argument that is in agreement with a particular statement or opinion. For example: John put forward an argument in favor of changing the company policy. His colleague, Jane, responded with her own set of points in favor of the affirmative side.
The cultural collisions he was afraid of are the affirmative side of globalisation.
We are still confronted by the failure of the affirmative side of abolition all these years later".
The affirmative side won, in the opinion of a representative panel of judges, all former Boston College debaters, one from each decade since 1930.
We are still confronted by the failure of the affirmative side of abolition all these years later". Does that not leave black politics entrenched in a paradigm set almost 150 years ago?
"Honey" brings out the wholesome, affirmative side of the hip-hop aesthetic without being overly preachy, and it offers a winningly utopian view of show-business success without real costs or compromises.
For instance, three of the four English groups presenting on the affirmative side of the debate made the argument that there have been real-life examples of violent video games leading to violent behaviour.
When questioned about politics, Hepburn told an interviewer, "I always just say be on the affirmative and liberal side.
Masters also held disputations in which the affirmative and negative sides of a question were thoroughly argued by students and teacher before the latter resolved the problem.
The council competes in policy debate, with two teams of two arguing a topic (this year's is national health care) with specific rules for the affirmative and negative sides.
When the Bard College Debate Union and the United States Military Academy at West Point Debate Society tackled the question: "Is National Security More Important Than Individual Right To Privacy," both affirmative and negative sides delivered compelling, well-researched, and often surprising answers.
And it was not the side defending affirmative action.
