Antonym: negative. Similar words: terra firma, formation, reformation, information, afflictive, transformation, native, relative. Meaning: [-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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91) These people are usually drawn from the employee assistance, human resources, health promotion, affirmative action or equal employment departments.
92) He remains passionately opposed to abortion, gay rights, affirmative action and immigration, legal or illegal.
93) J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
94) But affirmative action is clearly going to be a more constrained remedy in future years than in past decades.
95) But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.
96) Thomas was renowned as a vigorous opponent of affirmative action or reverse discrimination, espousing minority self-help rather than racial quotas.
97) The black students wanted to present different, additional arguments from those in the Texas brief in favor of affirmative action.
98) As in the United States, affirmative action has been challenged in the courts.
99) Pete Wilson took in his unsuccessful presidential campaign in which he repeatedly highlighted affirmative action as a cutting-edge issue.
100) On analytical grounds the answer is probably in the affirmative.
101) I did not want to enter into an affirmative dialogue with the building.
102) The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.
103) For this reason affirmative assessment must go beyond seeing anxiety anger, guilt and sadness as simply newly learned reactions.
104) The affirmative action principle could be applied to virtually all economic or social goods.
105) He said the Republican Party bungled the debate over Propositions 187 and 209, the 1996 initiative dismantling affirmative action.
106) John Munger, perennial troublemaker on the Board of Regents, attacked both affirmative action and tenure.
107) After a celebrated review of federal affirmative action policies, Clinton has actually presided over glancingly little change.
108) Dole has endorsed a California ballot measure that would eliminate affirmative action programs.
109) Knowing which kind of support to offer requires the practitioner to use deep empathy based on affirmative assessment.
110) Both questions have to receive affirmative answers, and they are not mutually exclusive.
111) For thirty years I've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question.
112) The others deal with affirmative action and access to information.
113) Women are often surprised to learn that we have benefited from affirmative action programs.
114) And it provoked larger forces that transformed the demand for affirmative action into a demographic free-for-all.
115) Whether it is affirmative orders for national schemes or negative orders for local schemes, the procedure is very unsatisfactory.
116) Pete Wilson has made opposition to illegal immigration and affirmative action central themes during his tenure in Sacramento.
117) The ballot initiative ending state-backed affirmative action programs was approved by California voters by a 54-to-46 percent margin last month.
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118) Any reader looking for an affirmative sociology centered in success and joy rather than conservation and moderation would have to look elsewhere.
119) From this starting point, four theoretical ideas are identified which can contribute to a practice of affirmative assessment.
120) The vote set the stage for a government-wide review and partial rollback of affirmative action programs.
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