President Bill Clinton, the moderator in a town meeting discussing the topic " Race In America ", in response to a participant argument that the issue was not affirmative action but " racial preferences " asked the participant a loaded question: " Do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative-action program that produced Colin Powell?

The League created a small panel to decide if it should investigate the matter and, with an affirmative response, a neutral commission was created.

U-M and other organizations were granted a stay from implementation of the passed proposal soon after that election, and this has allowed time for proponents of affirmative action to decide legal and constitutional options in response to the election results.

In response he devised his own anti-razor: " If three things are not enough to verify an affirmative proposition about things, a fourth must be added, and so on.

Her first article for the paper heavily criticized Oberlin's affirmative action program and received a " hugely negative response " from other students on campus.

Bomberman gives an affirmative response, and the stranger ( later introduced as Sirius ) explains that a force field protects the Fortress from any outside attack.

" If the response is affirmative, then the conversation proceeds in Navajo, otherwise it uses the common language of the two speakers.

" Used at end of sentences with the expectation of receiving an affirmative response or as another word for " huh.

Aristotle's response, as a Greek, could hardly be affirmative, never having been told of a creatio ex nihilo ( for the first appearance of this concept in philosophy, see St. Augustine ); but he also has philosophical reasons for denying that motion didn't exist all along, on the grounds of the theory presented in the earlier books of the Physics.

A conformist response answered in the affirmative the question posed in its title, Whether it be mortall sinne to transgresse civil lawes, which be the commaundementes of civill Magistrates ( 1566 ).

The court must ask the defendant if he understands each of these points, and must receive a voluntary affirmative response.

After their affirmative response, Madonna sings the first line of the chorus of " Hung Up ".

< tt > yes </ tt > is a Unix command, which outputs an affirmative response, or a user-defined string of text continuously until killed.

< tt > yes </ tt > can be used to send an affirmative ( or negative ; e. g. < tt > yes n </ tt >) response to any command that would otherwise request one, thereby causing the command to run non-interactively.

This argument is also rarely made, due to the theory arguments it brings up on the affirmative changing its plan in the round in order to avoid the disadvantage.

Finally, when she is about to destroy the Mueller device, Sydney goes back to Vaughn and gives him an affirmative reply.

The last time a draft Statutory Instrument subject to affirmative procedure was not approved by the House of Commons was on 12 November 1969 when the House rejected four draft Orders relating to parliamentary constituencies.

Among the last collaborators with whom Atkinson may have been associated was the mentalist C. Alexander, " The Crystal Seer ," whose New Thought booklet of affirmative prayer, " Personal Lessons, Codes, and Instructions for Members of the Crystal Silence League ", published in Los Angeles during the 1920s, contained on its last page an advertisement for an extensive list of books by Atkinson, Dumont, Ramacharaka, Vishita, and Atkinson's collabrator, the occultist L. W. de Laurence.

Hardin's last book The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia ( 1999 ), a warning about the threat of overpopulation to the Earth's sustainable economic future, called for coercive constraints on " unqualified reproductive rights " and argued that affirmative action is a form of racism.

His other documentaries and features include reports on why affirmative action in America is a ' Lost Cause ', for the Assignment programme, Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq for the BBC's Newsnight programme and a report on the last reunion of the veterans of Dunkirk.

Going to the small telephone box with its slender wire attachments, Mr. Bell coolly asked, as though addressing some one in an adjoining room, “ Mr. Watson, are you ready !” Mr. Watson, five miles away in Somerville, promptly answered in the affirmative, and soon was heard a voice singing “ America ”.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties.

Upon independence from the British rule, the Indian Constitution listed 1, 108 castes across the country as Scheduled Castes in 1950, for affirmative action.

The reasons externalist answers in the affirmative (" Yes, Sasha has a reason not to steal from that poor person.

On a national level, this is controversial in many countries due to technical mistrust of the security of the escrow arrangement ( due to a long history of less than adequate protection of others ' information by assorted organizations, public and private, even when the information is held only under an affirmative legal obligation to protect it from unauthorized access ), and to a mistrust of the entire system even if it functions as designed.

This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment ; the method and means by which it is to be conducted ; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected ; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.

A recommendation for admission from the Security Council requires affirmative votes from at least nine of the council's fifteen members, with none of the five permanent members voting against.

In 1971 the Standardization policy of Sri Lankan universities was introduced as an affirmative action program for students from areas which had poor educational facilities due to 200 years purposeful discrimination by British colonialists.

However, highly ranked French schools do implement affirmative action in that they are obligated to take a certain amount of students from impoverished families.

More recently, a Quinnipiac poll from June 2009 finds that 55 % of Americans feel that affirmative action should be discontinued, yet 55 % support affirmative action for disabled people.

Sander's paper on mismatching has been criticized by several law professors, including Ian Ayres and Richard Brooks from Yale who argue that eliminating affirmative action would actually reduce the number of black lawyers by 12. 7 %.

Any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes ( 75 percent of all votes cast ) from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame.

Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the permanent members ; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.

In his doctrine of syllogisms he brought forward the proof for the conversion of universal affirmative judgments, differed from Aristotle here and there in the laying down and arranging the modi of the syllogisms, partly in the proof of them, partly in the doctrine of mixture, i. e. of the influence of the modality of the premises upon the modality of the conclusion.

Inevitably this has led to accusations of reactionary bias against public school pupils and of affirmative action ( positive discrimination ), although the relatively high proportion of state-school students reflects the far greater number of applications from pupils at maintained schools in comparison to other Cambridge colleges.

Such affirmative action can be controversial as they are in conflict with the absolute application of the right to equality, or because some members of the group that is intended to benefit from such programs criticizes or opposes them.

In his acceptance speech, Buchanan proposed US withdrawal from the United Nations and expelling the UN from New York, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, taxes on inheritance and capital gains, and affirmative action programs.

When the question of declaring independence from Great Britain was officially brought up in 1776, as a representative of the northernmost colony Bartlett was the first to be asked, and answered in the affirmative.

The case generated a record number of amicus curiae briefs from institutional supporters of affirmative action.

I see an affirmative nod from Professor Donceel-Voute.