单词	affirmatively
释义	affirmativeaf‧fir‧ma‧tive1 /əˈfɜːmətɪv $ -ɜːr-/ adjective formal Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Above all, affirmative action assuages white guilt. As in the United States, affirmative action has been challenged in the courts. He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics. Hearings to consider a Proposed constitutional amendment outlawing affirmative action were scheduled. Indeed, equal opportunity policies, and strategies of affirmative action, can be built into selective assessments. The others deal with affirmative action and access to information. Until now, however, the court has not reconsidered the workplace rules on affirmative action. While trainers try to distinguish between the two, skeptics often view diversity as just warmed-over affirmative action. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► action · Poor blacks dislike the Republican attack on welfare; rich blacks resent the Republican criticism of affirmative action.· Recent Supreme Court decisions have put limits on the use of affirmative action to assure diversity in student bodies.· The others deal with affirmative action and access to information.· Wilson has been under fire from many minority groups because of his campaign against affirmative action programs.· But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.· The affirmative action principle could be applied to virtually all economic or social goods.· But affirmative action is clearly going to be a more constrained remedy in future years than in past decades.· Pete Wilson took in his unsuccessful presidential campaign in which he repeatedly highlighted affirmative action as a cutting-edge issue. ► answer · Both questions have to receive affirmative answers, and they are not mutually exclusive.· Allowing the appeal automatically indicates an affirmative answer to the third certified question.· The voter knows that an affirmative answer would be considered more respectable than the truth.· The doctrine of the internality of relations gives an affirmative answer to both these questions.· If an affirmative answer can be given to all, this is your case. an affirmative answer or action means ‘yes’ or shows agreement OPP  negative:  an affirmative nod—affirmatively adverb
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