Let me take affirmative action.
"We expect the charities will take affirmative action to make sure they are not supporting terrorist activities," Ms. Patermaster said.
"We expect that the charities will take affirmative action to make sure they are not supporting terrorist activities," she said.
This has been called a "soft mandate" because it doesn't force individuals to buy insurance, but it does force them to take affirmative action to avoid coverage.
And when my critics worry lest we alienate the rest of Latin America by taking affirmative action in Cuba, I am sure that Castro chortles.
Finally, an entity powerful enough to challenge food manufacturing conglomerates takes affirmative action against advertising food to children that we don't, as a society, actually want them to eat.
As the ranks of leaseholders are swelled by his right-to-buy policy, the minister should take affirmative action to level the power imbalance, improve practice and give leaseholders real access to their rights.
Specifically, the complaint says that Dynegy helped push Enron under by taking "affirmative action, through on-the-record and off-the-record comments, to create substantial doubt and uncertainty concerning its willingness to consummate the merger".
Although this musical version of a popular 2010 movie ends with a similarly rousing injunction to "Stand Up! Stand Up!" for women's rights, it sounds more like a way of ensuring a climactic ovation than encouraging us to take affirmative action.
Likewise, after 1965 federal contractors had been subject to President Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246, requiring them to take "affirmative action" to make sure they were not discriminating.
