She tapped a few keys to confirm the reservations, and replied to the e-mail request in the affirmative. |
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Unable to offer a contrary view, this so-called investigation seems to answer these questions in the affirmative. |
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Perhaps even worse than stigmatizing minorities, affirmative action programs obscure the problems that lead to minority underachievement. |
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If the answer to any of these questions is in the affirmative, then may be you own a property with rich heritage value! |
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I replied in the affirmative and he didn't question me any further on this point. |
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And we hope they will answer in the affirmative in talking about the nation's future. |
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The partisans of the status quo don't hesitate to answer in the affirmative. |
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Is affirmative action to reverse the legacy of discrimination an idea whose time has passed? |
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Then, there are those who see affirmative action as a form of reverse discrimination. |
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This view is utterly independent of my views on the merits of affirmative action. |
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It's a ridiculous jump to assume the only aim of knowledge is immediate affirmative action. |
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The Court had previously made clear that affirmative action could not last forever. |
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However there is no pressure for compliance with any of these affirmative action programs and much needs to be done. |
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Besides advocating a crackdown he is also proposing affirmative action to help young people. |
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It should also contain a clear statement by the union in favour of affirmative action. |
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He soon will get another chance to stake out a position on affirmative action. |
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The legal question at issue here is whether affirmative action is constitutional. |
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He has supported affirmative action, but warned people of the damage it can do to social cohesion. |
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They plan to host a summit next March to focus on the importance of affirmative action for women. |
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They have been appointed on a basis that reflects political correctness or affirmative action. |
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Many argue that we can and should still make the case for affirmative action. |
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We want to know what you think about the upcoming case and affirmative action in general. |
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All the companies surveyed indicated that they have affirmative action policies in place. |
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Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action. |
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Perhaps we should take a positive view, and look at this as affirmative action at its most effective. |
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And call it what you like, but we need positive discrimination, or affirmative action. |
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For many years, it served as the primary basis for affirmative action programs. |
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But skittishness about affirmative action does not begin to explain the degree of Schadenfreude on display over Raines's resignation. |
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Again, neither the affirmative nor the negative answer is really satisfactory. |
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And we certainly cannot reconcile the conflicts about affirmative action preferences without answering these questions. |
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Adoption of proposed amendments shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present. |
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Unless the answer is in the affirmative the assessment must stand and the rebate is recoverable. |
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The affirmative answer was engineered, predetermined and deafening in its repetition. |
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She insists that his misdeeds are not about race, diversity or affirmative action. |
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Our evaluations after such transmutation will again be merely perspectives, but their point of view will then be affirmative and affirming. |
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She continued to ask the same question, repeatedly, throughout the meal, despite Sammy's reliably affirmative answers. |
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University of California regents repeal their ban on affirmative action, hoping to send a welcoming message to minority students. |
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The very fact that the statement is qualified implies or at least suggests an affirmative answer. |
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The split reflects a division of opinion among courts generally on the issue of affirmative action. |
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The problem with affirmative action, it seems, is that it is dependent upon the largesse and consent of those who have no stake. |
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The work answers the question of whether a non-believer can write a successful sacred work resoundingly in the affirmative. |
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Not only that, but they benefit from affirmative action in legislatures and the bureaucracy. |
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But lately several White colleagues have taken to beefing against affirmative action as reverse discrimination. |
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Often people who argue for employment equity and affirmative action programmes are accused of promoting reverse discrimination. |
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The case for affirmative action in Bermuda has likely been set back by years. |
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With half a season to go, an affirmative answer is required sooner rather than later. |
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He is black, and some people were quick to credit his ascent to affirmative action and his editors' desire for a more diverse reporting staff. |
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Many locals tend to respond in the affirmative, perhaps in the spirit of romantic ruralism that so often possesses modern urban souls. |
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Well the result of division there being 32 ayes and 31 nos, the matter is resolved in the affirmative. |
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Nevertheless, the courts have struck down minority set-asides and affirmative action programs at all levels of government. |
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The rule gives one point for an affirmative answer to each question, and scores of 4 or 5 predict response to spinal manipulation. |
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Princeton University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. |
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As with all personal questions, I tried to avoid answering, but she took my evasions to be an affirmative response. |
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The patient giving an affirmative answer to any of these questions would merit a more detailed assessment. |
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Every time there's an affirmative answer, the volunteers ring a bell to spur one another on. |
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There was a college prof from Delaware that wrote a gut-splitting funny column on affirmative action. |
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In arguments of this form, all three propositions are universal, affirmative, and assertoric. |
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He is nominally in support of affirmative action programmes for minorities in America and pro-choice in the abortion debate. |
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With this affirmative vote, Michigan becomes the first state to pass the bill in its House. |
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Nothing can move out of the task force without an affirmative vote of its private-sector members. |
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In between the anxious question and the affirmative answer, the narrative contains a bewildering sequence of events. |
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Were there any concessions, quid pro quos offered to those countries in exchange for their affirmative vote? |
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They must also have an affirmative vote by the majority of the parents of the pupils enrolled in the school. |
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The biological weapons treaty requires an affirmative majority vote of the executive to authorize an investigation. |
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He said he waited four months hoping that it could be given an affirmative vote by the House. |
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They noted that the affirmative resolution procedure allows a truncated legislative process, but considered that that had considerable drawbacks. |
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It turns out that it was the Misuse of Drugs Act that provided the starting point for this novel affirmative procedure process to arise. |
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We recognize and honor the multitudes of affirmative influences people from various cultures have on our campus and our society at large. |
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One controversial form of this has been the policy of affirmative redistricting. |
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Last, the individual would have to know the government was taking affirmative measures to protect her identity. |
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If a trial judge makes an affirmative finding of collusion, then the petition for divorce must be refused. |
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After many years of bashing from pundits and politicians, affirmative action is on the ropes. |
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To demonstrate parental support within the school district, the charter must receive the affirmative support of parents or legal guardians. |
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It is uncertain whether the back-to-back victories for affirmative action will permanently halt recent trends against the policies. |
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The film deals with this classily, choosing a sardonic and comic portrayal of issues such as affirmative action. |
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The availability of both emotional and affirmative support is negatively correlated with depression. |
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Any expression of approval would probably meet the criterion of affirmative suggestion or encouragement. |
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Both opponents and supporters of affirmative action claimed victory in the days following the ruling. |
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Rebecca was too embarrassed to reply, but he took her silence as an affirmative. |
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On the question being put to the vote, it was found that the balance of opinion was in favour of the affirmative. |
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Reaching up and scratching her right ear, she replied to Raquel's message, signaling an affirmative. |
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Mark's face became a picture of understanding and he nodded a quick affirmative before swinging the door open. |
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We are therefore obliged to look upon the arguments for affirmative action with sympathy and an open mind. |
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To the question of whether he would take tea or coffee his reply was a simple affirmative. |
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I asked if I would see him later and he answered me in the definite affirmative. |
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In a 1998 speech, Gore likened opposition to affirmative action to a duck blind. |
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Initially speechless, the Colonel quickly regained his composure and responded in a most emphatic affirmative. |
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Edwards has also refused to wink in regard to the hot button issue of affirmative action. |
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We never received an affirmative response from the tower to confirm our abort. |
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We never answer questions about special forces, but do not take that as an answer indicating an affirmative. |
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In addition, the ironic echo also displays a syntactic shift by changing the first clause to a negative and the second to an affirmative. |
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In these cases, the complex content of the clause, either affirmative or negative, is symbolized by a single, unanalysable morpheme. |
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Finally, in the original table there were only three cells in the relative clause affirmative realized with default lexical tone. |
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We owe him some respect for that and we need to help him make that affirmative case for change. |
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In this way it is possible to state that the 'logic of the affirmative statement ' and the 'logic of the operation' are functionally equivalent. |
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Well, it remains to be seen, although we can now once again toss our bets towards the affirmative. |
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Whether or not the man was dead was a matter of conjecture, but this last fact swayed my opinion towards the affirmative. |
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He took heart that Labour did not need to introduce any affirmative action for this election. |
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This resolution might, on the surface, seem to lean towards the affirmative, but there are several advantages to both sides. |
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And I'm undecided as to whether golf is really a sport, but I'd tend towards the affirmative. |
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A remarkable 25 percent of employees responded in the affirmative to this question. |
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Taking the actions required to get you in the right position to answer in the affirmative might be worth your while. |
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I am not especially optimistic about answering that question in the affirmative. |
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Maybe fewer than half of modern people can answer in the affirmative, due to their busy work schedules. |
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Opinions have differed, however, about non-relative affirmative terms like good and wise. |
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If he was being true to himself and his principles then the answer would have to be in the affirmative. |
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This would have stripped the bitter racial rancor out of the affirmative action debate. |
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In these and other lovely poems, Black is convincingly, unsentimentally affirmative about daily life. |
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In the case of children, it may be easy to answer that question in the affirmative. |
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As no networks for ethnic women existed, there was no crutch to lean on and I had to find a suitable niche for myself without affirmative action assistance. |
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His was one of six votes against the day, which received 90 votes in the affirmative. |
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In another unusual move, the grand jury considered not only the basic elements of the crime, but also affirmative defenses. |
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A sizable number of Asian Americans feel that affirmative action, in college admissions or elsewhere, has hurt them personally. |
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Politically, witness the increasing popularity of affirmative action based on class rather than race. |
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This is especially so given that Sotomayor has been frank about her past as a recipient of affirmative action. |
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Taking on affirmative action is, in some ways, taking on what Sotomayor believes to be a key to her own success. |
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Then Reagan hit the scene and became their avenger against affirmative action and so on, and the rest you know. |
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In 2005, the affirmative self-defense was broadened under the so-called Stand Your Ground Statutes. |
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Full integration, Colby argues, requires far more than policies like busing and affirmative action. |
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On one level, the last question can be answered in the affirmative. |
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Girls end up more accommodated to academia and flock to college, which may need to do affirmative action for males to keep the male-to-female ratio in balance. |
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The legal and electoral attacks on race-conscious affirmative action and the advent of other conservative public policies are said to be radicalizing scholars. |
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Edwards weighs in against gay marriages and school vouchers, in favor of affirmative action and against caps on jury awards in medical malpractice cases. |
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I always saw them talking about affirmative action, about glass ceilings, corporate ladder. |
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If the vote was affirmative, an ostracism was held two months later. |
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Despite his reservations, the answer is decidedly affirmative. |
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His reaction to his classmate's affirmative answer is telling. |
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Nods and affirmative statements came from everyone in the room. |
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She examined him for bruises, while he nodded his affirmative answer. |
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He raised his eyebrows, which Dan accepted as an affirmative answer. |
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The present results provide an affirmative answer to this question. |
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As we saw earlier, the logical empiricists held that the answer to this question is affirmative, and the logician largely agreed with them about this. |
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Approval would require an affirmative vote of both 90 percent or more of the total property value affected and 75 percent or more of the individual unit owners. |
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The board recommends in the proxy an affirmative vote on the question. |
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Our assumption is that an increase in affirmative responses to sensitive questions on such behaviors suggests greater honesty or enhanced self-disclosure. |
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In short, the family with its daily affirmative influence on the child is the most reliable nursery of responsible, emotionally mature, and socially compatible individuals. |
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If a candidate can't connect with the voters, can't give them an affirmative reason to support him, as opposed to the other candidates, that's his problem. |
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The importance of affirmative support is emphasized most strongly by those significant others whose definition of self and role is perceived as devalued. |
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I support affirmative access, which aggressively reaches out to minorities, is inclusive of all races, provides equal opportunity, and promotes diversity. |
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This suggests that the adverse effects of early life events can be offset by the adaptive capability of the mind and the affirmative influences of the adoptive family. |
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Friends and colleagues speak of a man who rediscovers his serenity the day after a tantrum, asks whether he was foolish and nods quietly on hearing the affirmative. |
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They came remarkably close to answering with a simple affirmative. |
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I nodded in understanding, but he took it for an affirmative. |
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Around Christmas 1990, it was hard to find many senior figures in the capital who would reply to both those questions with a confident affirmative. |
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Not everything demonstrable can be known by finding definitions, since all definitions are universal and affirmative whereas some demonstrable propositions are negative. |
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It's a tricky problem, but I think I incline towards the affirmative. |
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However, I would answer that question also in the affirmative. |
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If these questions are answered in the affirmative, a lawsuit is born. |
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For the reasons set out above, I would answer that question in the affirmative, and as a consequence the other four questions simply do not arise. |
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I would answer each question in the affirmative and dismiss the appeal. |
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Can affirmative action be reconciled with liberal individualism? |
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Still, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to deride affirmative action from his position of lived experience. |
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Back in 2007, Roberts threw his first salvo in the affirmative action wars. |
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If sander and Taylor are right, affirmative action may be a policy that hurts Asians and helps no one. |
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Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who spearheaded the campaign to end affirmative action, expressed the notion that faculty were not partners but adversaries. |
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The administration's decision has reignited debate over whether affirmative action is an effective tool against racism, or a racist policy in and of itself. |
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Not surprisingly then, Asian-American dissatisfaction with affirmative action has grown over time. |
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Universities that want their bread buttered on both sides when it comes to affirmative action would do better to apply more fiber than fat in their reasoning. |
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The same is true for the perspective of electing more black mayors and city officials and promoting minority-owned businesses through affirmative action set-asides. |
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Although Irving was prepared at one stage of the trial to agree that in broad terms the answer to this question is in the affirmative, he later shifted his ground. |
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Foxworthy was also preaching to the newly minted white middle class, those who had ditched the pickup for an Audi and their ancestral segregation for affirmative action. |
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The best argument against affirmative action is presented in mismatch, by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor. |
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Loyalties are multidirectional and even the most affirmative forms of political direction and identity cannot eradicate the informal, boundary-dissolving, groupings. |
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And how could an accused person prove affirmative consent, especially of the nonverbal variety? |
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Finally, this poll is being cited as showing broad support for affirmative action and a rejection on the Administration's position in the Michigan cases. |
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Secondly, it is argued that the imposition of liability for omissions would create burdensome duties of affirmative action which interfere with individual liberty. |
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Freed of external political pressures, they are far more likely to produce sensible social outcomes than any ham-handed state mandate on affirmative action. |
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And the religious centrists who believe that religion should play a larger role in government nonetheless support affirmative action and universal health care. |
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Everyone pretty much knows that the looming fight over judges is actually a fight over the right to abortion, affirmative action, and a few other hot button issues. |
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Affirmative action legislation became a reality in February 2000 when government ministries and parastatal companies had to submit their first affirmative action reports. |
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It is a concerted attempt to change the historical trajectory that we've been on of discrimination and affirmative action on behalf of white people in the past. |
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If directly doing justice is what affirmative action is about, then its mechanisms must be adjusted as best they can to reward individual desert and true merit. |
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When he was answered in the affirmative, he immediately became impressed as he danced around the ring and whamming suspended punchbags with that famous right hand. |
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He claimed that the school district stepped over the line with its affirmative action plan and that race was improperly used to discriminate against the white teacher. |
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I'm a big advocate of the Oreo cookie approach a sweet thing first, then a little complaint in the center, then a real affirmative ending. |
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The DCCD is a default rule, defeasible by congressional exercise of its affirmative power over interstate commerce. |
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Under Article 27 of the UN Charter, Security Council decisions on all substantive matters require the affirmative votes of nine members. |
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He replied in the affirmative and, beginning on 27 March, took an instructional course at the London HQ of the Government Code and Cypher School. |
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Sir Albert was accused of corruption and of a policy of affirmative action in favour of his own Mende ethnic group. |
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He played affirmative action to the hilt and took full advantage of it. |
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The caste system in India is a system of social stratification, which is now also used as a basis for affirmative action. |
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The Roberts-Sotomayor fight on affirmative action says otherwise. |
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Nor do I see the case for tacking left on affirmative action. |
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Liberals have also argued for affirmative action to increase the representation of women and minorities among law students and law faculty. |
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However, affirmative defenses such as duress or unconscionability may enable the signer to avoid the obligation. |
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That's an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters. |
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The plea that the benefice was full more than six months before the writ was purchased was a good affirmative defense. |
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If the answer to both questions was in the affirmative, an inference could be drawn that the defendant had intended that consequence. |
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An affirmative resolution concerning Brussels' place in the federal system passed in the parliaments of Wallonia and Brussels. |
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In these pages, Michael Greenstone, Paul Oyer, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen argued in the affirmative. |
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In 2012, Brazil passed an affirmative action law in an attempt to directly fight the legacy of slavery. |
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Twelve States now in the affirmative column at one time or another in the past voted negatively. |
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It has opposed the death penalty and supported the civil rights movement and affirmative action. |
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From 2007, legislation put before the Welsh Assembly will be enacted through Orders in Council after following the affirmative resolution procedure. |
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Her conservatism is not affirmative but unindignant, passive. |
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How far have they come since Japan began carrying out affirmative action policies for the buraku four decades ago, mirroring the American civil rights movement? |
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In February 2013, Working Committee of the Green Card Bureau Council gave their affirmative estimation to Azerbaijan, as a probable member of the system. |
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Despite this, the Court sometimes finds that whites have standing to challenge affirmative action programs without similar evidence of a redressable injury. |
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Lysicles was a little disconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito. |
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The following sentences show that DARE could share its infinitival complement with another modal, in both affirmative and negative clauses, examples and, respectively. |
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There has been a particularly acute white backlash or 'whitelash' in the United States against affirmative action programmes which promote women and black men. |
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Many policy makers have proposed that this gap can and will be eliminated through policies such as affirmative action, desegregation, and multiculturalism. |
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This early and affirmative awareness of equitability and fairness observed through her father's union activity soon manifested itself into action. |
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The League created a small panel to decide if it should investigate the matter and, with an affirmative response, a neutral commission was created. |
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In Polish, SVO order is basic in an affirmative sentence, and a different order is used to either emphasize some part of it or to adapt it to a broader context logic. |
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The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. |
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The firm admitted the amount owed, but averred as an affirmative defense that it had hired the expert as an agent of a disclosed principal, the client. |
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