Sentences with phrase «like affirmative»

But they're being used to study optimal corn growth whereas problems like affirmative action or immigration or gun violence — the ones we leave up to the talking heads — are the exact questions where your individual biases are likely to come in,»» he says.

But those provide a way of protecting against racism, even with measures like affirmative action or the fight against segregation based in the fallout from racism (social / cultural / geographical segregation, for example).

Oppositely, efforts like affirmative action demonstrate a cognizant and active effort to help correct for institutionalized impediments and make system inherently more evenly available throughout society.

It's like affirmative action for draft picks, +1 on his grade which puts him above similar player.

Above all, integration appeals to the same race - neutral principles that black separatism, like affirmative action, can not abide.

Indeed, many whites and blacks view existing social programs and political attempts to redress past injustices, including programs like affirmative action, as a form of reparations.

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.

Not exact matches

So, what did the justices look like before having to rule on health care, affirmative action, and surveillance laws?

«So I think it's certainly worth discussing whether we should have something similar in the US but what I would like to say today is that we're going to go forward and implement that [the same controls and affirmative consent] regardless of what the regulatory outcome is.»

«Regardless of whether we implement the exact same regulation — I would guess it would be somewhat different because we have somewhat different sensibilities in the US, as do other countries — we're committed to rolling out the controls and the affirmative consent, and the special controls around sensitive types of technologies like face recognition that are required in GDPR, we're doing that around the world,» he reiterated.

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

This comes as an aside that Rorty does not develop, but it sounds suspiciously like support for racial integration and opposition to affirmative action and quotas, which are of course causes of a conservative hue.

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.

If you are like me, you would have answered in the affirmative to both those questions.

From the eyebrow cocking to the affirmative nodding and exaggerated, slow - motion hand gestures; it can feel like McVay is flat - out impersonating the Super Bowl winning coach.

If your answer is affirmative to one or all these questions, it is time you start decluttering your closet right away to reap immediate benefits like:

Just like the horn of a unicorn is thought to turn poisoned water into that which can be tasted, doulas are there to help reframe parts of loss birth into a new and more affirmative experience for everyone.

However, this monitor has received the maximum number of affirmative feedback on a high percentage of ratings and reviews across the web, which is quite impressive, as many of the users actually liked it.

The county executive is especially critical of the affirmative consent portion of the legislation, which would place a definition on what consent is, and looks like between two people engaged in sexual activity.

It's like declaring a war, in America, it is called the affirmative action.

(«Affirmative» means it has to be approved by MPs in a vote; it can not become law by default, like secondary legislation passed under the «negative procedure».)

He added that he wanted to use the city's top financial officer position to play a «affirmative and creative role» in the city, doing «to the comptroller's office like he did to the [attorney general]'s office.»

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And Hillary fired back with a confident affirmative: Clinton responded, «Well, I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 percent of America is women.»

So when Cloggs got in touch to find out if i would like to choose from the wide selection i went straight to looking at which pair where going to answer both those questions for me in the affirmative.

If you're keeping score, by the first major plot point Smith, like any good dinosaur Republican, has gone after affirmative action African - Americans, lisping homosexuals, and women with a genuine moron's aggressive lack of insight.

Still, the pressure for students — particularly underrepresented nonwhite and low - income applicants — to package themselves like this is acute at a time when «diversity» remains the only rationale for affirmative action that the Supreme Court has consistently upheld, most recently in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas.

They believe that tackling deep racial inequities is the measure of one's commitment to educational improvement, and view measures like the DREAM Act and affirmative action as inseparable from elements of that work.

When a phrase like «white supremacy» is bandied about so lightly, the most straightforward response for many on the Right (and even some in the middle), is to conclude that anyone who wants to shrink the federal government, supports school vouchers, or is skeptical of affirmative action risks being stamped a «white supremacist.»

And they might merit a public policy response, such as extra funding for schools with a large proportion of male students, or even affirmative action for boys at schools like Banneker (something that's being contemplated by Muriel Bowser and Kaya Henderson's Empowering Males of Color initiative).

Alvin Chang (Vox): An honorary education writer by virtue of his frequent coverage of issues affecting education, Chang has produced a series of helpful, accessible stories on issues like housing segregation, affirmative action, and the impact of school attendance zones on school integregation that have been a great pleasure to see in recent weeks and months.

Across the country, a number of selective regional schools like TJ «have backed off affirmative action in recent years,» said Letita Mason, a board member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology.

Having replied in the affirmative, we then had to wait between 20 and 30 seconds for the system to refind its bearings — far too long for our liking.

They answered in the affirmative, so I proceeded to do all of my daily expenses like this.

Seems like it would be a pretty simple affirmative defense if this were true.

Hess writes: «The painting's energetic and lucid surfaces, its resoundingly affirmative presence, give little indication of a vacillating, Hamlet - like history.

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

It's not like Ryerson is an affirmative action, minority - focused school.

This question, however, has been answered in the affirmative, with Commission decisions like the one in CECED and Court judgments like those in Wouters, OTOC and Sydhavnens.

If, for example, we search for affirmative action and higher education, Bakke and Grutter come back as our first two hits — just like they should.

«Anybody seen them — and this is okay to answer in the affirmative — has anybody seen them and doesn't like what I'm doing and doesn't like me?»

My comment is that I'm not sure how clear the legal restrictions are in light of voluntary affirmative actions cases like Weber and Johnson, which both provide for the permissibility of such race and gender AA plans under certain conditions.

Like Mauro, Coyle reports that the abortion cases are likely to be early tests of Roberts» consensus - building efforts, as are two key affirmative action cases, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District # 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education.

One could make an argument that the affirmative defense of consent could apply; however, most states have consent statutes like Colorado's that would not apply to murder.

The defendant can also claim or alleged, as the lawyers like to call it, that certain Affirmative Defenses apply.

Knowing what they look like, we can now try to explain the affirmative rationale for retributive damages awards.

However, pay differentials are permitted when they are based on affirmative defenses like seniority, merit, quality of production, or any factor other than sex, but it is the employer's burden to prove when these defenses apply.

In addition, it should have affirmative statements, specifically stating that the policy covers healthcare services like gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, mental health counseling, and other medical visits.

Currently, users of social networking services such as Facebook must take some affirmative action, such as liking or sharing, in order to associate themselves with the product.

Like Google, Facebook agreed to a install a comprehensive privacy review of new products and to seek affirmative consent from users before making changes that override their privacy preferences.