Sentence examples for existing affirmative from inspiring English sources

Also unclear is how the clause's requirements will differ from existing affirmative action laws, like those enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

"They've had these laws, and the sky has not fallen, and the cases that have been brought are the exact kind of cases we want prosecutors to bring," she said of the states with existing affirmative consent laws.

The new laws also seek to tighten existing legislation on affirmative action, decreeing that black South Africans must constitute at least 60% of senior management by 2017, up from 26% at present.

When asked if it was easy to find the information that they were seeking, 130 (65.99%) of the respondents to the existing site gave an affirmative response, whereas 57 (28.93%) responded negatively.

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He was defending the admissions system at the University of Texas in Austin, which like many other colleges in America tries to use existing legal dispensations to employ affirmative action to increase diversity in its classrooms and thus also give young minority men and women a leg-up in the Lone Star State.

"A realistic but affirmative rule for existing sources can lead to emissions reductions of several hundred tons per year".

Even setting aside the question of how effective such affirmative action is and an existing reservation of 22% of seats for wretched tribal Indians and dalits, Hinduism's former untouchables, is discouraging the proposed amendment is flawed.

Baines points out that the EU's updated privacy framework, GDPR, tightens the existing privacy standard — adding the words "clear affirmative act" and "unambiguous" to consent requirements.

Given the ideological agenda that the existing conservative bloc has pursued, it's safe to predict that affirmative action of all kinds would likely be outlawed by a McCain Court.

The survey touches on several components not frequently found in the existing data on sexual assault, including some of the first research on affirmative consent.