Example sentences for: affirmative

How can you use “affirmative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Any kind of affirmative action means preferring some people over others for reasons having nothing to do with their intrinsic merit--however merit is measured.

  • In 1975, Glazer published Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy , a book in which he attacked affirmative action and decisively broke with contemporary liberalism.

  • In some other countries where there is affirmative action, it is a majority that imposes affirmative action for itself, for example, the Malays in Malaysia.

  • When a doctor by the name of Paula Mahone asked both candidates about the under-representation of blacks in medical schools, Bradley responded with a routine defense of affirmative action.

  • Well, whether or not they do, it seems to "Today's Papers" that outrage such as Hutchinson's over the road race policy tends to support outrage over affirmative action.


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