Sentence examples for partly affirmative from inspiring English sources
The answer is partly negative and partly affirmative.
Opposition to affirmative action persisted, partly because racists resented black success.
In fact, liberals embraced the diversity rationale in the 1970s partly because it allowed them to extend affirmative action to new groups — especially women — with far weaker historical grievances than African Americans.
Partly, foundations are responding to lawsuits that are attacking affirmative action programs around the country (see story on status of affirmative action in science programs).
This arrangement has been ineffective, partly because the board is precluded from taking affirmative steps to deal with Camden's most pressing problems.
I think it's partly about the coming of age of the affirmative-action generation, the people who were able to get into white institutions and then start black studies programmes in the university.
I think it's partly about the coming of age of the affirmative-action generation, the people who were able to get into white institutions and then start black studies programmes".
His conservatism, on issues ranging from abortion to affirmative action for minorities, was a product partly of his commitment to so-called "originalism", where he would attempt to see what the perspective of the framers and authors of the American Constitution would have been as he considered each case.
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, has had a more difficult time, partly because some in The White House have tried to use her as political cover for the administration's attack on affirmative action.
