The response is affirmative.

The response is affirmative.

Should We Affirm Affirmative Action?

My mother replied in the affirmative.

But there were very few affirmative comments or images.

The US Supreme Court became the guardian of affirmative action.

The affirmative answer seems to depend on two separate claims.

But India s good intentions, like America s affirmative action policies, are misguided.

Wherever it was seriously tried, affirmative action undoubtedly had some success.

Debate is an academic game between the affirmative and the negative.

But affirmative action must not become an enduring principle of a liberal order.

Wherever the answers are affirmative, an integrated package of organisational changes should be considered.

Ethnic Malays special status has long been codified in affirmative action policies giving them special economic benefits.

Likewise, an affirmative action clause for women is little different from a provision in the current constitution.

Sri Lanka is the only country, along with Malaysia, with affirmative action for the majority ethnic community.

Indeed, the agreements have been used to challenge government actions ranging from debt restructuring to affirmative action.

Another is that any UN Security Council resolution requires at least nine affirmative votes (in a Council of 15).

Are those who agitate for affirmative action fighting for something that is more a quack remedy than a real solution?

Or will it follow Judge Barreto, who calls for recognition of an obligation to adopt affirmative action policies aimed at benefiting Romanies?

If any set of rules needs a sunset clause to enforce review after a specific and limited period, it is affirmative action.

One shudders to think of parliaments in which the main criterion of membership is to belong to a group in need of affirmative action.

It invested in education and technology, pushed a high savings rate, enacted a strong and effective affirmative action program, and adopted sound macroeconomic policies.

Third, is affirmative action in some cases producing a new kind of rigid segmentation that destroys the very civil society it was intended to create?

She insists, however, that this is not some affirmative action type of thing where Ferrell was chosen as the film's heart because of her identities.

(h) Promote the employment of persons with disabilities in the private sector through appropriate policies and measures, which may include affirmative action programmes, incentives and other measures

The second factor is the classic French Republican rejection of, and legal norms against, any form of affirmative action, or positive discrimination, even of the most inoffensive kind.

But at the very moment that other countries were looking to America for a policy model, affirmative action began to raise questions, of which three are particularly important.

To repeat the earlier point affirmative action was and is a courageous final step in the fight for universal citizenship rights not just on paper, but in reality.

6. Decides, upon the affirmative recommendation of the Board, that the Inter Parliamentary Union shall be admitted as a new member organization of the Fund, effective 1 January 2005

7. Decides, upon the affirmative recommendation of the Board, that the International Organization for Migration shall be admitted as a new member organization of the Fund, effective 1 January 2007

The United States has long been divided over what it calls affirmative action, a system of racial preferences intended to overcome the lingering consequences of slavery and discrimination against black Americans.

Elsewhere it is probably best to include in the laws of countries and the statutes of organizations a clause that makes affirmative action lapse after five years, or at most ten.

Elsewhere it is probably best to include in the laws of countries and the statutes of organizations a clause that makes affirmative action lapse after five years, or at most ten.

If any set of rules needs a sunset clause to enforce review after a specific and limited period, it is affirmative action. The flexibility of the US Supreme Court in this regard is admirable.

Like the prohibition of fine tuned data without which positive discrimination is in any case impossible affirmative action is seen as damaging to the Republican model because it is based on recognition of ethnic differences.

A consensus was reached at the Forum that such a right makes sense only if it is formulated in such a way that particular policymaking entities, be they water companies or local governments, face an affirmative duty to respect this right.

Affirmative action , as it was called, consisted of rules that set aside a certain percentage of representation among candidates for office, students and teachers, police and the military, and in other walks of life to members of hitherto disadvantaged groups.

You understand English? asked Lydia Ivanovna and having received an affirmative answer she rose and began looking among the books on a shelf. 'I want to read Safe and Happy, or, Under the Wing,' she said with a questioning look at Karenin.

France is also in desperate need of a reality check on the nature of its current cultural diversity. And no one should forget that, despite his campaign rhetoric and his apparent unpopularity with many immigrants, Sarkozy himself is an immigrant s son who favors bold affirmative action policies.

They restrict governments even from placing temporary controls on the kind of destabilizing short term capital flows that have so often wrought havoc in financial markets and fueled crises in developing countries. Indeed, the agreements have been used to challenge government actions ranging from debt restructuring to affirmative action.