Sentences with phrase «by affirmative»

An attachment figure in these measures is defined by an affirmative response to the question «Is your overall sense of emotional security, comfort, and well - being affected by your feelings about your relationship with your partner?»

The plaintiff was insured by the Affirmative Casualty Insurance Company, and the defendant was insured by ACCC Insurance Company.

It would be great if you could conduct primary research and investigate the opinion of those people who were directly affected by the affirmative action (minority students and teachers, for example).

A board of trustees may adopt a proposed local innovation plan by an affirmative vote of two - thirds of the membership of the board.

Only those URLs and those exact usages will be sanctioned by any affirmative response.

If you and the other member both indicate by an affirmative response there is potential for a possible match, you'll both receive a «Click Alert!»

But they're more closely divided on whether that cap should be able to be exceeded by an affirmative vote of 60 percent of voters, as the governor has argued, or simply a majority vote.

Under a 10 - step procedure devised by the governor's office for state agencies, internal complaints are supposed to be investigated by an affirmative action officer.

The order would be laid before parliament and produced by affirmative resolution procedure.

Thomas» dissent outraged Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, who made much of the claim that Thomas himself had benefited by affirmative action.

For this reason, the inductively moving sermon is more descriptive than hortatory, more marked by the affirmative than the imperative, with the realization, of course, that the strongest of all imperatives is a clear affirmative that has been embraced.

Not exact matches

The Justice Department and EPA have since alleged in their suit that VW officials «impeded and obstructed» CARB's inquiry by providing «misleading information,» «conceal [ing] facts,» and making «affirmative misrepresentations.»

«Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy,» he says.

This obsession with metrics has led to initiatives like affirmative action hiring programs set up by some of the biggest names in tech, which, unfortunately, have failed to perform as hoped.

Master the art of moving forward by learning to turn on your «affirmative mind - set.»

A click - through agreement requires the potential customer to take affirmative action — usually by clicking a button — to show that they are agreeing to the terms of the sale.

By anti-Semitism is meant the deliberately incited, affirmative racial phobia which has produced the social and economic and sometimes physical pogroms of modern Germany just as it produced the murderous pogroms of Czarist Russia.

A telecommunications carrier shall disclose customer proprietary network information, upon affirmative written request by the customer, to any person designated by the customer.

The JOBS Act did at least make verification affirmative by the sell side for the online portals instead of mere self - affirmation as before.

The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the proposal at issue is required for: (i) the ratification of the appointment of E&Y as Walmart's independent accountants for fiscal 2014; (ii) the adoption of a non-binding advisory resolution to approve the compensation of the company's NEOs; (iii) the approval of the Management Incentive Plan, as amended; and (iv) the adoption of each of the shareholder proposals.

At any meeting at which a quorum has been established, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the proposal at issue is required for: (i) the ratification of the appointment of EY as Walmart's independent accountants for fiscal 2016; (ii) the adoption of a non-binding advisory resolution to approve the compensation of the company's NEOs; (iii) the approval of the Stock Incentive Plan of 2015; and (iv) the adoption of each of the shareholder proposals.

The affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast by holders of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting will be required to approve the amendment of the 2004 Plan, provided that the total votes cast on the proposal represent over 50 % of the outstanding stock entitled to vote on the proposal.

Under the default rule applicable to virtually every corporation in the United States, however, corporate directors are elected through a standard that guarantees that a director could be elected with even a single affirmative vote, even if that director's candidacy is opposed by the overwhelming majority of shareholders.

In addition, if you are collecting any sensitive personal information from your buyers (including information relating to medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or sexuality), you agree to obtain affirmative, express consent from your buyers for the use and access of sensitive personal information by Shopify and other third parties.

Equality of opportunity was passé; racial quotas masqueraded under the euphemism of «affirmative action»; King's righteous demand that his children be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was inverted by race - hustlers and shakedown artists» an inversion subsequently validated by activist judges.

Sometimes it happens that by working through our negative feelings we become open for affirmative ones.

All government mandated programs including Women's Rights of Choice and Voting, Welfare, Health Care, Legal Services, Student Loan Programs, NASA, Agricultural Funding, Foreign Assistance Programs, Affirmative Action Programs, Gay Anything Programs will all cease to be funded by the stroke of my pen.

In any case, positive value in the area of conduct occurs when there is an affirmative response to it by the person acting.

An affirmative answer to this question takes issue with moral thinkers such as Gewirth, who fully agree that universal moral principles can not be exhausted by the formative rights I have identified but also hold that the supreme substantive principle is nonteleological.

Mobility by means of affirmative action breeds tenuous self respect and questionable peer acceptance for many middle - class blacks.

The new black conservatives voiced these feelings in the form of attacks on affirmative action programs (ignoring the fact that they had achieved their positions by means of such programs).

I will answer these last questions in the affirmative, but in the process I will try to clarify what Christian theology means by original sin and inherited sin.

They were most vexed by religious discrimination on the part of the state against those who, were they not Christian, would be eligible for the Indian versions of equal opportunity» and «affirmative action.»

With respect to each of these questions, either an affirmative or negative answer can now be shown to be not merely prudent or imprudent but, given the current state of constitutional discourse, actually required or prohibited by the Constitution.

A few of us, however, still thinking that we would impress the great philosopher, responded in the affirmative by raising our hands.

The only question, then, is whether any psychical concept is truly analogical; and Hartshorne here appears to support his affirmative answer by appealing to the philosophical beliefs peculiar to psychicalism.

Briefly speaking, God has two kinds of attributes: affirmative attributes which are acknowledged by proofs, and negative attributes acknowledged by denial.

Undismayed by such conundrums, Hartshorne suggests a possibly affirmative answer to both questions.

On the face of it, the answer supplied by that narrative would seem to be affirmative.

In a very interesting way, Malaysian governmental practice has integrated some features of the traditional dhimmi status prescribed for non-Muslims in a Muslim state by using the quota structure of an affirmative - action regime.

Aquinas answered in the affirmative, in that, «since a thing is said to live in so far as it operates of itself and not as moved by another, the more perfectly this power is found in anything, the more perfect is the life of that thing.»

These lines are a tight counterpoint in which a big theme is condensed: life's affirmative fire is only to be redeemed from self - incineration when it is met by, controlled, and purified by the God who is a consuming fire, in his concreteness of love in Christ («I come to bring fire upon the earth») and mediated by the Spirit,

«Why should my taxes be raised, or my son rejected by a medical school that would have accepted him if not for its affirmative action program?»

In 1989, the attempt by one of these coalition governments to placate lowcaste discontent through affirmative action - for example, reserving a portion of government jobs for members of these castes - angered and alienated many upper - caste and middleclass Hindus.

For example, when asked by George Stephanopoulos about whether or not he supports affirmative action, the senator referred to his own daughters as examples of the reform needed in the system.

(This will also involve an affirmative answer to a question posed by Donald W. Sherburne, namely, whether these Whiteheadian «conjectures» could «provide a systematic, rational framework capable of grounding the many insights into the relation of «mind» and «body» which have emerged from the reflections of such phenomenologists as Merleau - Ponty» [WPP 406].)

This fundamentally affirmative and confident attitude to the creation is reinforced by the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (Heb 11:3), which, as we noted, was not available to the writers of the Hebrew Scriptures, emerging as it does in the intertestamental period.

The question of whether we invest nature with these conditions I consider answered in the affirmative by the theory of projection which Whitehead will introduce in his essay «Uniformity and Contingency» (ESP 104) and later will develop fully in Process and Reality (e.g., PR 193).

When I became a Catholic twenty years ago, I was profoundly affected by the men and women I met who had taken up the challenge of celibacy, individuals whose affirmative response to God's call, like Mary's yes, redounded to my benefit.

The aim here is to brighten dull romance by encouraging sex - affirmative attitudes and non-demand pleasuring, pleasure enjoyed for its own sake without any other goal or expectation of achievement.