Sentence examples for affirmative. from inspiring English sources

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affirmative.

adjective

Pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming

  • An affirmative answer

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Anwar said that if he formed the next government, he would root out corruption and end a system of affirmative action for ethnic Malays, more than half of the 27 million population.

The idea of affirmative and enthusiastic consent encourages people to regard sex as a positive, willing action.

I'd like to think it's one of hopeful, affirmative action, but perhaps that's too romanticised.

Whatever it was that Victoria did, it was sufficient for Jordan to answer in the affirmative when an interviewer inquired whether Mrs Beckham had benefited from "work" to her top half.

We need to teach young women and men about affirmative, enthusiastic and informed consent.

"The reason this is concerning is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act.

But times are changing, and there are complaints that the Hugos are being used "as an affirmative action award: giving Hugos because a writer or artist is (insert under-represented minority or victim group here) or because a work features (insert under-represented minority or victim group here) characters".

Trade unions pointed out that political funds were already subject to 10-year affirmative ballots and said this reform, once contemplated by the then employment secretary Norman Tebbit in the 1980s, was not discussed during the election.

He replies in the affirmative, but not without pause.

No Supreme Court justice has championed a reading of the 14th amendment that requires public universities to employ affirmative action, and for good reason: such an interpretation would be untenably activist and represent a radical break with decades of the court's jurisprudence.

Affirmative action in higher education, the court has maintained for decades, is not justified as a remedy for previous or current racial discrimination.

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