Sentences with phrase «not affirmative»

Increasing the diversity of the judiciary is about «maintaining confidence in the administration of justice,» not affirmative action, says Hum.

If the answer is not affirmative, the stakeholders should change the strategy.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

NY is not an Affirmative Defene State but in states that so allow you to «stand your ground» outside of your home someone could most definitely have shot Conor.

This seems to imply that such rituals are to be affirmative, not affirmative of choosing to end one's life — that would be contrary to two thousand years of Christian witness to the sanctity of life — but affirmative of freedom, which may be exercised in choosing to end one's life.

(it is not an affirmative defense).

Not being disproven, is not affirmative proof.

More important, the rebellious instinct which elsewhere expresses itself so often in sour withdrawal, cynical nihilism and disruption is here more often than not both affirmative and constructive, thanks in considerable measure to the chaplain's influence.»

If you are given $ 100,000 to hold in trust, and there is only $ 30,000 left some time later, you are guilty of civil theft for every dollar that you can't affirmative prove was used for a proper purpose, even if the money was actually properly spent for a proper purpose and only your record keeping was at fault.

Not exact matches

As part of that agreement, Facebook promised to not share information about its users with third parties without the users» affirmative consent.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Isn't «someone else's point of view» the essence of affirmative action in education?

I asked the obvious question, of whether this feature will be rolled out to other countries, and while I didn't get a reply in the affirmative, that certainly would be the plan.

So, this argument that affirmative action somehow is causing it doesn't really seem to have much of a logical basis.

Without affirmative action, we wouldn't be creating this diverse group of graduates that we need in order to lead this country, to create business, to compete in the global economy.

In fact, we have committed not to share our customers» sensitive information (such as banking, children's, and health information), unless we first obtain their affirmative, opt - in consent.

In addition, each share of our Class B common stock will convert automatically into one share of our Class A common stock upon any transfer, whether or not for value, except for transfers to existing holders of Class B common stock and certain other transfers described in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, or upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock, voting separately as a class.

The separation, which does not require a shareholder vote, remains subject to market conditions, customary regulatory approvals, an affirmative ruling from the US Internal Revenue Service, the execution of separation and intercompany agreements, and final board approval.

Again, this is my concern that users currently may not know or take affirmative action to protect their own privacy.

We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

If the insurance companies do not respond in the affirmative, this helps to establish a record of helpfulness and reasonableness on the part of the policyholder, and the satisfaction of any queries on the part of the insurance company.

In the agreement, which Facebook signed to end an investigation into privacy breaches, the company promised not to misrepresent the extent to which it maintains the privacy or security of personal information, and it said it would obtain users» affirmative consent before sharing personal information with any third party.

While I am not certain, I am willing to guess that the 80/20 rule applies here with 80 % of the C - Suite not being able to give an affirmative yes to that question.

Remember, this trade is NOT a recommendation, only an illustration of a possibility available to option traders who answer in the affirmative to the following three questions:

We can't even justify affirmative action as an egalitarian right flowing from remediation or just identity politics.

fred: i don't think that most atheists make that affirmative claim.

«making a distinction in treatment based on race» is not enough information to judge morality, you would indict all affirmative action?

@Chad «making a distinction in treatment based on race» is not enough information to judge morality, you would indict all affirmative action?»

I won't even talk about why affirmative action is in place and how it can still be immoral and ethical.

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.

Martinetti emphasized the Pope's affirmative quotation of the Emperor Manuel that «not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature».

Half a century of affirmative action and anti-poverty programs have not lifted the fortunes of black Americans.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

He didn't just say we would get an answer, but that such answer would be in the affirmative.

But when spoken in the company of non believers, you should reasonably expect to have pointed out to you that your affirmative statement gives the impression to us that you KNOW something that we KNOW that you really don't KNOW, and that you seem incapable of recognizing that your BELIEF can only be confused as KNOWLEDGE in your own head.

We need to see as they did that the negative and the affirmative aspects of tradition are not ultimately separate.

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.

Notwithstanding enough affirmative responses to lead to 167,939 convert baptisms in 1977, the missionary task is not always an easy one.

Eternal life in this affirmative sense, as indicated in the Gospel of John, is not simply continuance after death; it is a quality of life which begins here and is endless.

Atheism is not necessarily the affirmative statement that no god exists.

is not necessarily in the affirmative?

However, it is certainly very much to be desired that a sober thinker would for once explain how far this purely logical process, which recalls the grammatical rule that two negatives make an affirmative, and the mathematical rule that two minuses are a plus — how far, I say, this logical process is valid in the world of reality, in the world of qualities; whether after all the qualities are not subject to a different dialectic; whether in this case «transition» does not play a different rôle.

I use the example of the white male who honestly doesn't see the need for affirmative action any longer, and he really doesn't see it.

On the other hand, one can not but notice the manner in which these themes and mythological characters are utilized with a view toward reinterpreting the collective identity of Paraiyars in an affirmative way.

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.

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.»

they will cling to Affirmative Action and tell white people they are not as smart so they can't compete.

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