Sentence examples for said affirmative from inspiring English sources

She thanked me, said, 'Affirmative' into the headset".

In speeches at Yale and in Washington, he said affirmative action had achieved many positive results.

He said affirmative action had enabled many lower-caste Hindus to secure government jobs that provided stability so that their children could remain in school.

They said affirmative action was the receptionist out front and the guy who fixes the copy machine.

The same year, in a Senate floor speech, he said affirmative action "is dividing us in ways its creators could not have intended".

In concluding her opinion, Justice O'Connor noted that 25 years had passed since Bakke and said affirmative action should "no longer be necessary" 25 years from now.

She also says: "Affirmative action would be really bad for women".

Mr. Najib says affirmative action will be continued but insists that it will be on a more market-oriented basis.

"The court says affirmative action is not timeless, and it had better not be," Mr. Levey said in an interview.

Secondly, opponents say affirmative action undermines equality of opportunity and meritocracy fragile concepts in Brazil, where privilege, nepotism and contacts have long been routes to advancement.Proponents of affirmative action say these arguments sanctify an unjust status quo.

And this thought, in a column that Will published this past weekend in the Washington Post, is not just attached to a standard rant about, say, affirmative action.