I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
affirmative action
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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Poor blacks dislike the Republican attack on welfare; rich blacks resent the Republican criticism of affirmative action .
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Recent Supreme Court decisions have put limits on the use of affirmative action to assure diversity in student bodies.
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The others deal with affirmative action and access to information.
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Wilson has been under fire from many minority groups because of his campaign against affirmative action programs.
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But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action .
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The affirmative action principle could be applied to virtually all economic or social goods.
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But affirmative action is clearly going to be a more constrained remedy in future years than in past decades.
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Pete Wilson took in his unsuccessful presidential campaign in which he repeatedly highlighted affirmative action as a cutting-edge issue.
answer
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Both questions have to receive affirmative answers , and they are not mutually exclusive.
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Allowing the appeal automatically indicates an affirmative answer to the third certified question.
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The voter knows that an affirmative answer would be considered more respectable than the truth.
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The doctrine of the internality of relations gives an affirmative answer to both these questions.
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If an affirmative answer can be given to all, this is your case.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above all, affirmative action assuages white guilt.
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As in the United States, affirmative action has been challenged in the courts.
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He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
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Hearings to consider a Proposed constitutional amendment outlawing affirmative action were scheduled.
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Indeed, equal opportunity policies, and strategies of affirmative action, can be built into selective assessments.
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The others deal with affirmative action and access to information.
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Until now, however, the court has not reconsidered the workplace rules on affirmative action.
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While trainers try to distinguish between the two, skeptics often view diversity as just warmed-over affirmative action.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the affirmative was the case in all three, don't feel ashamed.
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The Court answers this question in the affirmative .
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The question posed at the end of the first paragraph can be answered with a strong affirmative .