Affirmative in a sentence as a noun

I think this is a great answer to people who ask why we still need things like affirmative action.

"I suspect the opinion people have on this issue largely mirrors their view on affirmative action.

Again, the parent i responded to implied Google has some affirmative obligation to place the source code on the internet.

Only once the user has made that affirmative choice can Target acquire information about that user or device.

Thus, affirmative action ensures minorities have access to doctors.

For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms?

A black person that truly deserved to get into Harvard is indistinguishable from one that got there only after the bump from affirmative action.

Further, since they contacted you previously, and you changed the name at their behest, you may have an affirmative defense because you attempted to remedy the situation.

Affirmative in a sentence as an adjective

Someone can take them up on that written offer, yes, and then they could repost it to the internet, but Google definitely has no affirmative obligation to place the GPL'd source code on the internet as was implied.

Was it really necessary to invent anything new after somebody had hit upon S-Expressions?Anyway, to answer in the affirmative: Certain paradigms provide from certain syntax.

Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them.

"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.

The justification and rationale for race-based affirmative action is somewhat different from anything favoring people of low socioeconomic class generally.

With respect to newspaper and magazine subscriptions, nothing in this paragraph prohibits the current operational practice pursuant to which older issues are automatically deleted from the Device to make room for newer issues, absent affirmative action by the Device user to save older issues.

What is more, if I don't avail myself of such protections and if a competitor later does so in a way that hurts my venture's prospects because I now have to surmount legal barriers that wouldn't even have been there had I acted to protect my company's legal interests in the first place, then I have done affirmative harm to the people who trusted me to run my company to its best advantage - whether they be my investors, my co-founders, my employees, or just my own family members who might suffer if that venture should fail.

Affirmative definitions

noun

a reply of affirmation; "he answered in the affirmative"

adjective

affirming or giving assent; "an affirmative decision"; "affirmative votes"

See also: affirmatory

adjective

expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook"

See also: optimistic

adjective

expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod"

See also: approving approbative approbatory plausive