The phrase "affirmative way" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a manner or approach that is positive or supportive.
Example: "She always addresses challenges in an affirmative way, encouraging her team to stay motivated."
Alternatives: "positive manner" or "supportive approach".
But other voters, especially those who might consider it their patriotic duty to vote, might wish for a more affirmative way to register their displeasure with their choices.
This covenant is plainly limited to keeping Blackstone from acting in an affirmative way to prevent, impair, or delay the closing of the Merger.
Each ends in a strongly affirmative way linking its heroine to her native soil – Scarlett returns to her estate, declaring: "Tara!
Rather than complicate the question or subvert it or implicate the American public as a party to what was done in its name, these books simply answer in the most spectacularly affirmative way possible: "Did I kill anybody?
Mr. Kerry himself wants his military service portrayed in "an affirmative way," one of his top aides told me, so as not to cheapen his service and that of other veterans by using it in a blatantly partisan way.
"I cannot second-guess this decision," he said, "but I do know that is the function of the City of New York to provide not just grudgingly, but openly, and in a positive and affirmative way, ample opportunity for people to express their First Amendment views.
This form of "mystical atheism" has seemed suspicious to established religion; its adherents have usually tried to calm the suspicions of the orthodox by an insistence on the necessity, though incompleteness, of the affirmative ways to God.
Musically, this half-hour EP includes a good deal of invigorating stuff--anthems that will be pure tonic for Christian believers but that also can find favor with general rock audiences looking for music that applies the heft of distortion-laced modern rock in an affirmative, rousing way.
If they respond in the affirmative by way of a completed 'Willingness to be Contacted' form, residents or their substitute decision maker will be contacted by a research assistant, who will offer to tell them about the study either over the phone or in person.
So anticorruption cannot be synonymous with the B.J.P., the way affirmative action for backward castes has not been synonymous with the Congress — even though the Congress has legislated affirmative action for backward castes in higher education.
Thanks to James Traub for his insightful essay on legacy admissions and affirmative action (The Way We Live Now, Feb. 29).
