The phrase "least affirmative" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English, although it may not be commonly used in everyday language.
It refers to a statement or phrase that expresses the least amount of certainty or agreement. Here is an example of how it could be used in a sentence: "While I am not completely convinced, I have to admit that your argument is at least somewhat affirmative."
Threats or potential hurting acts were defined as at least one affirmative answer to questions i to iii.
Probable asthma, defined as at least one affirmative response to the Brief Pediatric Screen Plus,[ 19] was identified in 16.2% of children without a formal asthma diagnosis.
If a woman answered at least one affirmative response to the validated screening items on physical and sexual IPV contained in the assessment, they were invited to participate in the study; those interested completed written and/or verbal informed consent.
It's also a bit of a lost art -- at least in its affirmative, Tin Pan Alley guise, as a masterpiece of storytelling compression.
Also, at least in certain circumstances, affirmative action and similar programs have transformed ethnic identity into a potential asset.
Had black and Latino students been benefiting from those preferences, as many would, at least some portion of affirmative action might be in less peril.
The compromise that the majority reached was at least a reprieve for affirmative action in higher education, and civil rights groups that had feared for the future of race-conscious admission programs were relieved.
Forty years later, America is being led, to a striking extent, by a new elite, a cohort of the best and the brightest whose advancement was formed, at least in part, by affirmative action policies.
The "race card" covers a wide, polymorphous range of presumed white grievances, not least of which is affirmative action, which 53% of white voters say is "no longer necessary" in one recent survey; perhaps not coincidentally, the same percentage of white voters thought Obama's comment saying he didn't look like past presidents was "racist".
After the Young Socceroos weekend performance, the answer, at least superficially, is in the affirmative.
Public and private universities, many of which employ Grutter-style affirmative action at least to some extent, are watching this case with great anxiety.
