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Sentence count:177+3Posted:2016-12-19Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: negativeSimilar words: terra firmaformationreformationinformationafflictivetransformationnativerelativeMeaning: [-mətɪv]  n. a reply of affirmation. adj. 1. affirming or giving assent 2. expecting the best 3. supporting a policy or attitude etc. 
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31) To its critics, "affirmative action" is seen as patronizing to women and minorities.
32) At first sight this would seem to answer our stability question in the affirmative.
33) Dole also switched his position on affirmative action, saying he wanted to dismantle a program he previously supported.
34) No doubt Harry's family would also have replied in the affirmative, indicating that they really did not know what happiness was.
35) It follows that affirmative assessors must be able to discriminate at least between these two types of grief reaction.
36) Recent Supreme Court decisions have put limits on the use of affirmative action to assure diversity in student bodies.
37) When asked if he recognized the defendant, the witness replied in the affirmative.
38) The doctrine of the internality of relations gives an affirmative answer to both these questions.
39) The increasing hostility to affirmative action has rubbed off on the diversity movement.
40) If the affirmative was the case in all three, don't feel ashamed.
41) The largest gains were made during the past 20 years of affirmative action policies, Herrera and others say.
42) It was a wonderful feeling to put up an affirmative two fingers as the mechanic helped me taxi in.
43) Until now, however, the court has not reconsidered the workplace rules on affirmative action.
44) Poor blacks dislike the Republican attack on welfare; rich blacks resent the Republican criticism of affirmative action.
45) The action is likely to reopen debates about affirmative action.
46) Does the bedrock constitutional principle of equal protection for all require affirmative action, merely allow it, or even prohibit it?
47) If an affirmative answer can be given to all, this is your case.
48) Dole is expected to endorse a proposition that is expected to be on the ballot next fall to eliminate affirmative action.
49) How much emphasis a non- candidate Wilson will continue to place on illegal immigration and affirmative action remains to be seen.
50) The crowd of affirmative action supporters included university students, government workers, community activists and business people.
51) It seems hardly a week goes by anymore without yet another report of zany results of affirmative action in action.
52) The justices are deeply divided on such issues as abortion, affirmative action and the separation of church and state.
53) The survey found that 65 percent of the delegates favored abolishing affirmative action.
54) The voter knows that an affirmative answer would be considered more respectable than the truth.
55) Weber, has been read as giving employers a largely free hand to use affirmative action in hiring, promotions and layoffs.
56) The chief beneficiaries of affirmative action are university students and black businessmen, who are the blacks most likely to succeed anyway.
57) Affirmative action has been the most productive route ever for the emergence of minorities into the mainstream.
58) Are men more mechanical than women? 67% of all men responding to our poll answered in the affirmative.
59) It reviews current practices and offers suggestions for their improvement through the development of affirmative assessment.
60) At the same time,(http://sentencedict.com/affirmative.html) formal affirmative action programs are likely to be weakened considerably in the move toward flexible organizations.
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