They answered in the affirmative.
answer in the affirmative [ negative ]
To give an affirmative reply to.
The old man made a sign in the affirmative.
When the wheels stopped turning, Jack, the bulldog, suddenly lay in the shadow between the wheels.
Second, the initiative positive affirmative appraisal way and the drive confidence unify.
Ali drew himself up proudly, and then returned a sign in the affirmative. "I thought I did not mistake.
In data communications, the transmission by a receiver of acknowledge characters as an affirmative response to a sender.
The amended Article 27 provides that decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members.
However, none of the court decisions or programs on either side of the Atlantic makes any real attempt to address the larger racial issues that created the need for affirmative action from the start.
It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger's retreating figure on the hill that she shook off her temporary sadness and answered her would-be partner in the affirmative.
And, for just that reason, it is a pattern of success that illuminates why affirmative action is such an odd fit for the largely immigrant Asian-American community, and places in sharp relief the difference between the Asian and black sojourns in America.
an affirmative decision; affirmative votes; an affirmative nod; an affirmatory gesture.
Her answer is in the affirmative.
Most certainly. Used as an emphatic affirmative reply
affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision.
the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial; Rushdie's controversial book; a controversial decision on affirmative action.
Racial identification can stem from other sources, such as heightened ethnic pride or the opportunity to benefit from affirmative action and other programs.
Whatever the political motivations of the SLATE, Mr. Unz and the other members have hit on two increasingly contentious issues in higher education: astronomical college costs and affirmative action.
The choice of tracks should cater for most tastes and as mentioned the kit crew figure is very well done and this basically answers the opening question in the affirmative as this is clearly the best basic Hetzer kit now available.
An affirmative vote or voter.
understatement, esp. expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary.
This is positive, you see? This is affirmative, you See? This is final, you see?
A browbeating lawyer was demanding that a witness answer a certain question either in the negative or affirmative.
Article107 An amendment to the articles of association requires affirmative votes by at least two-thirds of the votes held by shareholders attending the meeting of shareholders' general committee.
affirmative and negative statements
"All men are mortal" is an affirmative proposition.
Really affirmative, encounter raving, is also a kind of surprise, false raving, encounter affirmation, is also a kind of failure.
All her yesterdays had vanished without a trace.
One who is confidently affirmative in attitude.
And of all marriages of convenience Fourier's words hold true: "As in grammar two negatives make an affirmative, so in matrimonial morality two prostitutions pass for a virtue."
Two negatives make an affirmative.
Marx's attitude to the western human rights in modem times was affirmative from the very beginning, then turned to be disenchanting.
The answer to the questions of this type are in the affirmative.
affirmative defence
There being nothing eatable within his reach, Oliver replied in the affirmative.
