Sentence examples for doing something affirmative from inspiring English sources
Doing something affirmative?
It is so much harder politically to do something affirmative than to stand in the way and say it can't be done.
Mr. Bush said the Florida plan does something old affirmative action did not do: It allows students to pursue an education without the stigma of set-asides and lowered admission standards.
For both parties, affirmative action represents a way to pretend to be doing something — what I have long called racial justice on the cheap.
You should use the affirmative imperative to give a command or demand about someone doing something.
They include affirmative covenants, which require the landowner to make payments, provide services, or render some other performance, and negative covenants, which require the landowner to refrain from doing something.
(When I ask my father if he intended the sequence as an homage to the Scorsese film, he claims not to remember having seen it. And then he does a thing I hate. He asks his wife if they've seen "Goodfellas". And when she responds in the affirmative he does something that I hate even more. He asks her if he liked it).
But I wonder if eliminating that mechanism wouldn't force universities -- and the rest of us -- to do something about the educational failure that has made affirmative action necessary in the first place.
"Making a choice is an affirmative action, whether one decides to do something or not do something," she added.
Making a choice is an affirmative action, whether one decides to do something or not do something".
