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"affirmatively" Definitions
  1. in a way that means ‘yes’ or expresses agreement

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But you don't usually get far asking people to affirmatively
"Can you hear me?" he asked, and I replied affirmatively.
But this did little to actually affirmatively further fair housing.
Few in the House affirmatively want the law to pass.
She declared affirmatively that she believed that Roe should be upheld.
They both do not care if you succeed or fail affirmatively.
He answered affirmatively, pointing to bipartisan support for bump stock bans.
"I think 94.6 per cent of them answered affirmatively," he says.
"I can't tell you affirmatively, but ... something is going on here."
They are answering the question of "Maurice" affirmatively: It is publishable.
But prosecutors generally do not use indictments to affirmatively exonerate organizations.
To prevent Trump's election, they'd all have to affirmatively back Clinton.
Clapper said that he was able to affirmatively deny that that happened.
Some responded affirmatively, answering questions and shedding new light on the efforts.
Known as "affirmatively furthering fair housing," the rule has been politically contentious.
Would Carson continue enforcing the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, Masto asked.
Citizens are expected to affirmatively prove their fitness to own a gun.
One wild card: Does Warren affirmatively urge her candidates to support Sanders?
" When he answers affirmatively, the two call out in unison: "Carry on!
If you can't affirmatively answer these questions, your financial plan may need attention.
Congress would be granted 70 days to vote affirmatively to adopt such regulations.
The world is reacting affirmatively, not out of fear as much as respect.
The president responded affirmatively to Mr. el-Sisi, saying it would make sense.
National security agencies should affirmatively contribute to the public discourse about this recalibration.
I had not, but assume that answering affirmatively would lead to extra screening.
Wilson says The Times is working affirmatively to make sure this doesn't happen.
"Do you know what redlining is?" she asks him, hardly letting him answer affirmatively.
We asked all members of the Airbnb to affirmatively sign on to this commitment.
As she reeled off the symptoms, I ticked them off affirmatively one by one.
Unless the president affirmatively acts to interfere, it seems, the Mueller investigation will continue.
And the CIA did not say affirmatively he did it, either, by the way.
He stated affirmatively that he had no idea that drinking games were going on.
One way would be to do much more to affirmatively promote fact-based journalism.
The Roberts conservatives could even block state efforts to affirmatively strengthen the democratic process.
" Asked specifically if Biden was a "return to the past," O'Rourke replied affirmatively: "He is.
As he patted me down, a couple behind me responded affirmatively to the same question.
It is easy to share a story, retweet it, reblog it, or affirmatively "like" it.
For example, when Americans are polled on Roe, they respond affirmatively: they want it upheld.
When host Katy Tur asked if he meant a roadmap for impeachment, Nunberg answered affirmatively.
This is the notion of "independence" that judges are required to affirmatively uphold and protect.
It affirmatively cites Ray's case as precedent and doubles down on the reasoning behind it.
That is, to a family member of the suspect, but affirmatively not to the suspect.
How important is it that our federal government affirmatively acts on infrastructure policy and funding?
Mr. Rosenstein appeared surprised but responded affirmatively, according to CNN, which first reported the encounter.
My ex texts me to give my family a hug for him, and I respond affirmatively.
Even if these compliments aren't sincere, people are more likely to respond affirmatively in the moment.
In doing so, they seek to stop banks from engaging in activities affirmatively allowed by statute.
Henry Cuellar (Texas) voted affirmatively on 10 of the 2023 resolutions, more than any other Democrat.
Henry Cuellar (Texas) voted affirmatively on 10 of the 14 resolutions, more than any other Democrat.
The university emphasized that neither student has affirmatively tested positive for the infection at this time.
And this month, HUD issued a proposed rule that would fundamentally undermine the affirmatively furthering standard.
Eppler answered affirmatively when asked if Ohtani would be playing if he were only a hitter.
I'm not saying that they're saying he didn't do it, but they didn't say it affirmatively.
"If I am to vote affirmatively for a nominee, I need honest and transparent answers," Menendez said.
"It's rare that the SEC affirmatively supports a stay," said Mark Katz, an attorney for the SEC.
To affirmatively rebuild and lift the nation, and offer a better way of life for all Americans.
President Trump must spend the funds if Congress does not affirmatively approve the rescission within 45 days.
The test showed Daniels responding affirmatively to two separate questions about her encounters with him in 2006.
The time has come for Congress to affirmatively declare that total federal preemption is the wrong approach.
Sessions also co-sponsored a bill to prohibit funding for HUD's enforcement of the "affirmatively furthering" rule.
Barr stated affirmatively that he is still on track to release the redacted report within a week.
Now, the FBI investigation itself would likely continue (unless Trump installs someone who affirmatively shuts it down).
I respond affirmatively regardless — if nothing else, hearing more about the role might make me more dialed in.
The judge also cautioned protesters against continuing to speak to patients who affirmatively ask to be left alone.
The 2015 rule — the "affirmatively furthering fair housing rule" — required communities to analyze policies that contribute to segregation.
Wednesday's ruling contained a final blow for public unions, saying that workers must affirmatively agree to support them.
The court said government agencies should not deduct union fees from paychecks unless workers affirmatively consent to it.
Instead, the migrants must affirmatively state a fear of being sent to that country, the training materials tmsnrt.
No matter where your politics lie, you need to affirmatively stand for the idea that facts are facts.
Put another way, most drugs and devices cannot be marketed until they have been affirmatively shown to be safe.
Escobar piece—and in another essay, by their fellow "cis-passing" writer Laurie Penny—is someone who affirmatively accepts
The new regulation applies to people applying "affirmatively" for asylum, meaning those who voluntarily come forward asking for protection.
But Cardarelli asked Calhoun whether he missed coaching and was somewhat surprised to hear his former boss answer affirmatively.
But while the report did not affirmatively find collusion, Mueller made clear "it also does not exonerate him," either.
Five Republican governors, four Democratic governors, and four agencies responded affirmatively and provided the information for people they'd blocked.
"Even though technically the United States doesn't affirmatively embrace dual citizenship, it no longer objects to it," she said.
Solomon from Saco, Me., answered affirmatively: I agree with the writer's proposal to lower the voting age to 20.75.
Most notably he often could be seen nodding affirmatively at appropriate intervals while Trump was speaking at the lectern.
Nearly 40 percent of people in the two younger groups responded affirmatively to Facebook's interest in Instagram and WhatsApp.
"Have you ever been cheated on?" the fan asks in a letter, and without missing a beat, Zendaya answers affirmatively.
And thus began half a century of the federal government doing little in terms of actually "affirmatively furthering" fair housing.
One action they highlighted was the repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, which was aimed at reducing segregation.
Ginsburg directly answered questions on abortion and affirmatively declared the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion in her confirmation hearing.
They imply a different way of thinking about guns, as something that citizens must affirmatively earn the right to own.
Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published an update to its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule.
Asked as he departed whether he would take into account the diverse set of views he'd heard, Kelly answered affirmatively.
Subsequent investigations transform her into a rather more Nora Ephron-ish figure; few New Yorkers are more gaily, affirmatively opinionated.
"The consequences here will be in what they don't do as well as what they affirmatively do," Professor Katz said.
It is a racist, sexist standard…But if you present yourself as affirmatively and self-respectingly a member of your own culture or sex…if you insist that your cultural diversity be affirmatively accommodated and recognised in ways equal to the ways theirs has been, that's not seen as an equality challenge at all.
VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community.
Either they disliked Dilan — who Salazar painted as a crony of real estate developers — or affirmatively were attracted to Salazar's ideas.
Femininity-embracing drag queen Aquaria, traditionally masculine former NFL player Michael Sam, and presidential candidate Buttigieg can all be affirmatively gay.
Given the governor's changing stories, one might wonder if he hopes to benefit similarly, his identity protected from being affirmatively disclosed.
When asked later in the interview whether he would support Kobach as governor should he win the primary, Colyer replied affirmatively.
NHTSA should use the federal guidance as an opportunity to affirmatively discourage state and local policymakers from pursuing their own rules.
"When Maddow asked if Warren if bad behavior online was a particular problem with Sander's supporters, Warren replied affirmatively: "It is.
What's more, the state had affirmatively told lower courts that it did not question the providers' standing to challenge Act 620.
" She added that it used "deeply flawed measures of a jurisdiction's success in meeting its duty to affirmatively further fair housing.
As a practical matter, however, the president's power in the international arena is largely unchecked unless Congress affirmatively asserts that authority.
Finally, in 2015, HUD issued the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which breathed life into this key portion of the FHA.
The Supreme Court's Janus opinion held that the union agency fee was unconstitutional unless an employee affirmatively assented to pay it.
That meant it would automatically keep the low tariff rates it had enjoyed since 1980 unless Congress affirmatively took them away.
In the El Paso area, numerous parents said that ICE officers demanded that they sign forms affirmatively abandoning their rights to reunification.
But I affirmatively told him that I wanted to have sex, and he was attentive in making sure that consent was mutual.
"There is nothing wrong, and a lot that is right, with public spaces affirmatively welcoming women and encouraging women's participation," Martin elaborated.
Under the recently-approved FCC policy, consumers must affirmatively give their ISP opt-in permission to use private information for marketing purposes.
Predictive hiring tools are mostly used to weed out candidates deemed unfit for hire, rather than affirmatively choose who gets a job.
The ACA added to this incentive by affirmatively requiring large employers to share in the responsibility for providing health coverage to employees.
The "affirmatively furthering" mandate was based on the idea that this history of active government intervention requires an active government remedy, too.
A lot of us raised our eyebrows where the judge said to the government affirmatively be sure you give over that evidence.
According to a four-page summary released by Attorney General William Barr on March 24, the inquiry did not affirmatively find collusion.
He's arguing that Clinton is not merely better than Trump but is affirmatively committed to the principles that drove his own campaign.
Mr. Fields responded affirmatively and listed bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and A.D.H.D., and added that he was taking medication, Mr. McGinn said.
For the moment, his committee is still not yet affirmatively trying to impeach Trump, and doesn't seem particularly close to doing so.
To put that more affirmatively: You may want to find a partner whose desires are more predicated on nonsexual forms of intimacy.
Strategists say Democrats must demand that Mr. Trump's pick for the court affirmatively say whether he or she would uphold Roe v.
I don't see many politicians willing to make this case affirmatively (even those who vote for bills that would take insurance away).
You have to affirmatively turn off the automatic renewal before the end of the trial if you don't want to get charged.
Asked if preserving the state and local deduction was one of the details he was willing to change, Mr. Hatch responded affirmatively.
Under current labor law, employees do not have the right to affirmatively sign off on their dues money sent to liberal advocacy groups.
The Fair Housing Act states that HUD is to administer housing programs "in a manner affirmatively to further the policies" of the law.
It's why he is affirmatively now trying to discourage Mueller, why the Justice Department is trying to interfere with the hearing next week.
I believe it is in fact impossible for anyone to answer question (4) affirmatively, because that would require proof of a counterfactual hypothetical.
Throughout the seventies, higher education and business were expansive in their duty to act affirmatively—an effort supported by both Republicans and Democrats.
Under the Equal Pay Act, employers can rebut evidence of disparate pay by affirmatively proving wage differences are attributable to gender-neutral policies.
"When CNN'S Dana Bash followed up to confirm whether he was promising to choose a female vice presidential nominee, Biden replied affirmatively, "Yes.
It also changed default options for users so that the police may not gain access to their profiles unless users affirmatively opt-in.
Al Baldasaro, the New Hampshire state representative who cochaired Trump's veterans coalition, has defended the real-estate mogul, arguing affirmatively for internment camps.
But that negative power can also be deployed affirmatively by leveraging it to force compromise on, for example, a comprehensive approach to immigration.
I also began improving HUD's approach to affirmatively furthering fair housing and my successor, Julián Castro, completed it with a regulation in 2015.
Alternately, the court could rule that California's law violates the First Amendment by requiring public employees to affirmatively opt out of union payments.
But he dodged questions about whether he would attempt to weaken a housing discrimination regulation known as the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.
Thus, while Congress is not required to affirmatively approve extending TPA, either the House or the Senate can prevent TPA from being extended.
A majority of the House and Senate lawmakers who are on that committee have to sign affirmatively for the bill to move forward.
That's right," magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll told CNN's Alisyn Camerota, nodding her head affirmatively when asked if the recording gave her "confirmation.
Examples like this illustrate why it's understandable that women would be hesitant to answer affirmatively when given appearance-based compliments, especially by a male.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Cohen if, to his knowledge, Trump had ever provided inflated assets to an insurance company, to which he responded affirmatively.
So, while Spotter doesn't affirmatively share this information with third parties, those parties may be able to help themselves to this smorgasbord of data.
"R's took the issue away from D's but I don't see R's using it affirmatively," said a source close to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
And it's impossible to deny that a lot of people affirmatively turned out to vote for the Trump that Trump himself promised to be.
Harwood: Now, one thing that distinguishes you from your Democratic colleagues is that you have affirmatively worked with Trump on a major policy issue.
The Court is also considering a second question in the case concerning whether non-members must affirmatively opt out of a union's ideological spending.
Decades after John F. Kennedy's grand vision to act affirmatively, affirmative action's last stand involves seats at the most élite universities in the world.
According to the statement, the deputy responded affirmatively to both questions but did not further discuss the ambulance or its cost with Ms. Black.
That should include resisting further attacks on civil justice and exploring legislative reforms that would affirmatively restore full and meaningful access to the courts.
The fundamental problem is that very few people in the Republican Party affirmatively want a literal, physical concrete wall across the US/Mexico border.
The original language of the law also required communities to "affirmatively further" fair housing — to, in effect, promote desegregation in addition to prohibiting discrimination.
He says the "insurance policy" simply meant proceeding with the investigation just in case Trump won — not trying to affirmatively stop Trump from winning.
Under the sunset provision, the agreement will terminate automatically in 16 years unless all three countries affirmatively agree to an extension in the interim.
"We can formalize certain notions of fairness and nondiscrimination, affirmatively, at the outset," said Solon Barocas, a professor of information science at Cornell University.
EO 13672 forces all federal contractors and subcontractors to affirmatively state that they make employment decisions without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.
Although a medical examiner could not affirmatively determine how she was killed, Mizrahi argued that Michael Haim shot her in 1993, then buried her.
That meant the F.B.I. had to affirmatively declare a prisoner was not a terrorist threat before he was released to face standard immigration proceedings.
Since Trump nominated Carson to be HUD secretary, commentators have pointed out his lack of enthusiasm for the 2628 "affirmatively furthering" fair housing rule.
About a quarter of respondents answered affirmatively, while 46 percent said their neighbors were either definitely or probably not ready for a gay president.
So an individual who is going to participate has to tell the court affirmatively that he or she wants to be considered for it.
But although Facebook has now affirmatively acknowledged the Russian campaign to influence the 22017 presidential election, we're not even close to getting the whole story.
But although Facebook has now affirmatively acknowledged the Russian campaign to influence the 20163 presidential election, we're not even close to getting the whole story.
Among other criteria, material must affirmatively recognize different sexual orientations, include same-sex relationships in examples, and teach students about gender identity, expression, and stereotypes.
"Mr VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community," the letter said.
Trump is now affirmatively trying to sell his supporters and base on the idea that letting the DREAMers stay in the country legally is good.
"I think the most likely option is that the administration does nothing affirmatively and waits to see what the outcome of litigation is," said Legomsky.
Sanders would not say during Thursday's press briefing whether Trump has confidence in Priebus, a question White House spokespeople have answered affirmatively in the past.
It is essential that Congress and U.S. space policy affirmatively support full funding for ISS through 2028, or until the above criteria have been met.
She affirmatively entered the political arena, she did so publicly and she tried to influence the election of the most important office in the nation.
Last October, the judge granted Fitbit's motion to compel arbitration for everyone except the handful of customers who affirmatively opted out of the arbitration clause.
Arbitration clauses tend to be broadly unpopular; by blocking the rule, Republicans would be affirmatively denying millions of consumers the ability to protect themselves legally.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said of Republicans, accusing them of "affirmatively" working to urge witnesses not to cooperate with them.
The military has said it will acknowledge such missions if asked about them, even if it does not affirmatively disclose them in a news release.
HUD recently proposed a rule that would eviscerate the Obama administration's 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, a landmark civil rights achievement of recent years.
"There has not been one federal court that has affirmatively found extended solitary confinement to be per se unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment," Dolovich recalls.
The second is a mandate that communities "affirmatively further fair housing," which requires government to promote greater opportunity and integration as well as fight discrimination.
"My conscience tells me that the right thing to do is abide by my oath of office and vote affirmatively for both articles," Delgado said.
When Bloomberg's record on stop and frisk came up, Buttigieg did not hesitate to answer affirmatively that Bloomberg's policy of stop-and-frisk was racist.
Falling short of our policy ideals is not the same as affirmatively and deliberately harming innocent families, and it's counterproductive—even offensive—to suggest otherwise.
Or we can finally wake up, and act affirmatively to stop our schools, our churches and our airports from being the shooting galleries we have allowed.
In those insightful late career interviews, she links that commitment to an ethics around authenticity, that existentialist challenge which her work answers affirmatively on her behalf.
At the time, the newly married, newly sex-having Jane tried at first to claim her new sexual status affirmatively, as something to be happy about.
He dodged several questions about whether he would uphold the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, only saying that he would commit himself to ensuring fair housing.
But only eight states affirmatively recognize that consent can be withdrawn at any time during intercourse: South Dakota, Connecticut, California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Kansas, and Minnesota.
And HUD's retreat from a focus on racial segregation in affirmatively furthering raises serious doubts about whether the new rule meets the basic mandate of Congress.
HUD's proposed rule fundamentally rewrites a provision in the Fair Housing Act that requires HUD to "affirmatively further fair housing"—essentially, to address segregation and discrimination.
Such restrictions are particularly mystifying when the law affirmatively protects the right to discuss gun ownership, access, and safety — even though such conversations can be discomfiting.
Although a medical examiner could not affirmatively determine how she was killed, Mizrahi argued that Michael Haim shot her and then buried her there in 1993.
Forbis spoke sparingly during the hearing, only answering affirmatively to direct questions posed by the judge as to whether he understood the rules of his bail.
That status had to be affirmatively extended each year by Congress or it would expire, and it was extended each and every year for 20 years.
If she responds affirmatively, then this opens another line of questioning that is too incriminating—when, and for how long, and why hasn't she said anything.
"At the point where a user in that forum accessed a post, we can affirmatively state that a user has attempted to access child pornography," he continued.
In order to pass, the measure could still be brought up for a unanimous consent vote, which would require all senators to vote affirmatively to move forward.
Ceresney categorized enforcement actions brought against CCOs into three broad categories: —Cases against CCOs who are affirmatively involved in misconduct that is unrelated to their compliance function.
The White House Office of Reproductive Freedom would be charged with "coordinating and affirmatively advancing abortion rights and access to reproductive health care" across the Booker administration.
If mistakes were made, the FBI, the world's greatest investigative body, should be proactively surfacing them, owning them, fixing them and affirmatively pushing their findings to Congress.
He was evasive, saying that he would do whatever the committee wanted to do,but carefully not stating affirmatively that he would welcome a FBI investigation. Sen.
Ceresney categorized enforcement actions brought against CCOs into three broad categories: -Cases against CCOs who are affirmatively involved in misconduct that is unrelated to their compliance function.
However, in order to share nonpublic video footage with law enforcement, customers receive a notification of law enforcement's request and must affirmatively "click" to approve the sharing.
Ceresney categorized enforcement actions brought against CCOs into three broad categories: - Cases against CCOs who are affirmatively involved in misconduct that is unrelated to their compliance function.
"By doing nothing, or by not affirmatively choosing the next president by the new Congress, apparently the new speaker [of the House] becomes president," Palmer told me.
As Slate reported, that includes rolling back the "affirmatively furthering fair housing" rule, a Barack Obama-era framework designed to increase local compliance with the Fair Housing Act.
And that tends to be an affirmatively good thing so long as even those aggressive and vicious competitors are confronted by others that can meaningfully respond in kind.
Rachel asks Eric's aunt if she thinks her nephew — who has never been in love before — is ready to get married, and she answers affirmatively, without any doubt.
But the part under scrutiny, even from the early days of the law, was the portion that says communities receiving money from HUD must "affirmatively further" fair housing.
"Perhaps the City Council might even hold public hearings to affirmatively solicit comments from members of the public and subject-matter experts in advance of any such vote."
Republicans are also weighing changes to the National Emergency Act, including requiring that Congress affirmatively vote to continue the emergency declaration after a certain amount of time. Sen.
"Us," in which the race of the central characters — though affirmatively black — is never depicted as remarkable, gave her a chance to take that shift a step further.
When pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper if that means eliminating private insurance, the senator answered affirmatively, saying she would be OK with cutting insurers out of the mix.
As president, I'll create a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom, charged with coordinating and affirmatively advancing abortion rights and access to reproductive health care across my administration.
The Fair Housing Act utilizes this power by requiring all executive departments and agencies to administer programs relating to housing in a manner that "affirmatively" furthers fair housing.
The REINS Act and similar proposals would mandate that a majority in both chambers affirmatively approve a rule, in a short timeframe, for the rule to be enacted.
We fear this delay tactic is the first step in the complete erasure of the rule, reverting to a time when the "affirmatively furthering" mandate was largely ignored.
Asylum seekers can either apply for asylum affirmatively with the asylum office, or raise their fear of return to their home country as a defense to removal proceedings.
So, it's not just that you have the right to know what's happening to your data, it's that before your data is collected, you have to affirmatively consent.
But across the board, the risk of deportation is elevated: Few if any unauthorized immigrants (or even, to a certain extent, legal-immigrant noncitizens) are affirmatively 100 percent safe.
" –@PeterAlexander "I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated there's no truth to it.
"Although we do not know the status of the investigation, we are not aware of the FBI affirmatively reaching out to any of those witnesses," Clune tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
A Missouri Republican wants to totally abolish abortion in the state, legally redefine fetuses as people, and likely even have police go after women to "affirmatively enforce" the law.
When a VICE News reporter asked Moon's legislative aide what "affirmatively enforce" means, the aide suggested that the reporter get a dictionary and a copy of the Missouri constitution.
Anyone who has "not affirmatively shown to the satisfaction of an immigration officer" that they've been in the U.S. for two continuous years will be subject to expedited removal.
The Obama administration promulgated a rule pursuant to the Fair Housing Act that would require localities to affirmatively promote fair housing if they chose to take funds from HUD.
The text of the Fair Housing Act makes it clear that HUD must administer its housing programs in a manner that would affirmatively further the policies of the law.
Though the Court hasn't affirmatively ruled in favor of the case, they have lifted previous courts' stays on the ban, meaning travel restrictions will go into effect this Thursday.
If affirmatively asked, the provider may give the patient a list of referrals for comprehensive primary care and some of which (but not the majority) may also provide abortion.
Most scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution believed that the president is empowered to use his powers to repel sudden attacks, but not to affirmatively initiate conflicts.
Many of Carson's previous statements on HUD, such as calling the Obama administration's anti-segregation Affirmatively Further Fair Housing rule a tool of "social engineering," have worried housing advocates.
When pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday if that means eliminating private insurance, Harris answered affirmatively, saying she would be OK with cutting insurers out of the mix.
" -@PeterAlexander"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated there's no truth to it.
The affirmatively furthering principle complements this protection by requiring that we go further than minimizing harm, by actively working to level the playing field and build more equitable communities.
An applicant would have to affirmatively state that they're coming to the US for the primary purpose of birth tourism, but it's unlikely that they would be so transparent.
Out of the 100 companies, just 9 responded affirmatively, saying they would use the money saved from corporate tax cuts to increase worker pay or invest in charitable causes.
The now-canceled FCC rules would have prohibited an ISP from selling, sharing or otherwise using your browsing history and applications usage unless you affirmatively gave permission for that use.
" According to the paper, Sisi "urged" President Donald Trump to make the move during a private meeting during his visit, and the President "responded affirmatively," agreeing "it would make sense.
"A lot of people think we're changing the whole Fair Housing Act and what it implies, like affirmatively furthering fair housing," Carson said during a visit to Memphis this week.
"With a majority of Congress voting for the resolution ... the argument that Congress has affirmatively approved the use of emergency military construction funds would be off the table," Goitein adds.
For Sessions to be eligible as a write-in candidate, Noble said, he would have to "affirmatively disavow" any campaign or resign from office to avoid violating the Hatch Act.
The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH) upgrades a forty-year-old law with tools and techniques to better advance fair housing goals and access to opportunity in every community.
Rules can include restrictions on who can do so, whether voters must affirmatively request mail-in ballots, the process by which to request such ballots and deadlines for returning them.
When asked if a female investor was more likely to invest in a female entrepreneur, 254% of people responded affirmatively (210% of these individuals were women and 133% were men).
" They must answer the two "stakes" questions affirmatively: "Will you drive your stakes in this land, not the land of your origin?" and "Will you 'prize' what this land is?
Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have declined this week to say affirmatively that the committee's investigation was an impeachment investigation or an impeachment inquiry, as Nadler has described it.
What triggered his outburst was the administration's decision — long overdue — to begin paying attention to the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and its mandate to "affirmatively further" fair housing goals.
In early 2000, the Obama administration decided it would do a 180 on the pardon office — and try to use it as a way to affirmatively get people out of prison.
To act affirmatively was to acknowledge the history of denigration and inequity that continued to define black life, and to come up with ways in which the future could be different.
Yes. Those are the two most important questions, and I can't yet answer those questions affirmatively for many of the declared candidates, much as I may like them or their policies.
When pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper on whether that means eliminating private insurance, the senator from California answered affirmatively, saying she would be OK with cutting insurers out of the mix.
But, with less than 45 days left in fiscal year 2018, Congress would need to affirmatively act to prevent these cuts from taking place, instead of just letting them expire. Sen.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated that there's no truth to it," Ivanka, 36, replied.
I mean, obviously, if you give your consent — which is all the rules said in the Obama administration, that you had to affirmatively give your consent to do this — that's one thing.
President Donald Trump on Monday accused unidentified opponents of doing "treasonous things against our country" and responded affirmatively to a question from reporters about whether Robert Mueller "acted honorably" in his investigation.
Only South Dakota, Connecticut, California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Kansas, and Minnesota affirmatively recognize that consent can be withdrawn at any time during sex; Illinois is the only one that's made it law.
Mueller also did not affirmatively conclude that President Trump obstructed justice while in office (in connection with his pressures on DOJ and FBI leadership, and his firing of FBI Director James Comey).
In other words, they're never at risk of summary deportation — whereas adults and families apprehended at the border without papers have to affirmatively prove they shouldn't be deported without a court hearing.
"It's very unclear to me whether U.S.C.I.S. will share that information if ICE affirmatively asks," said Kate Voigt of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, referring to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
These secondary punishments effectively banish ex-offenders to a modern leper colony by not only removing re-entry resources but also by affirmatively ostracizing those attempting to rebuild a life after incarceration.
AND A COUPLE REPUBLICANS, TOO: A couple Republicans broached the possibility of impeachment, as well, responding affirmatively to questions about whether the details in the memo would be impeachable offenses if true.
The inspector general report said McCabe led Comey to believe he did not authorize disclosing that politically-sensitive investigation and that McCabe affirmatively denied any role in that to internal FBI investigators.
Though the government of British Columbia originally declared the enormous territory it overtook in the mid-19th century to be "Crown" lands, most were never affirmatively ceded by First Nations through treaties.
I suspect a lot of people will nod affirmatively when you say that we should check human greed, but they've no idea that actually means or how it would work in practice.
But while this deal is hardly a victory that affirmatively advances liberal priorities, Democrats do see it as a tactical win that will help strengthen their party's hand in the coming months.
But he says the subjects of his focus group didn't just confirm that they tend to find Trump deplorable — they also suggested that young voters may be open to affirmatively supporting Clinton.
Then, head over to a hospital for a mental test and drug test (Japan is unusual in that potential gun owners must affirmatively prove their mental fitness), which you'll file with the police.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated there's no truth to it," Ivanka said in February 2018.
The MSU employees who were alleged to have learned of Nassar's sexual assault, with one exception, either "downplayed its seriousness or affirmatively discouraged the survivors from proceeding with their allegation," the report states.
Furthermore, authorities in over 90 American cities with over 100,85033 residents either affirmatively reported zero hate crimes in their jurisdictions during 2016 or outright ignored the FBI's request to provide hate crime data.
That means they have to affirmatively agree to the collection of data, and they have to know what it's being used for, the scope of the data, and who has access to it.
More responsive unions funded by members who affirmatively consent and an abiding respect for First Amendment rights are principles that all Americans can applaud regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
As Sanders travels the country campaigning for other Democrats and promoting his new book in the key primary state of Iowa, it seems as if another presidential run is affirmatively on the table.
This progressive sounding law — which requires entities that receive federal money to "affirmatively further" fair housing goals — was consistently undermined by officials of both parties who had little appetite for confronting entrenched segregation.
The bill's text says that "law enforcement officers, officers of the court, and any licensed or state-regulated entities in the state shall affirmatively enforce" the bill's provision barring abortion in the state.
The Fair Housing Act requires that recipients of HUD funding "affirmatively further" fair housing and equal opportunity but leaves it to the secretary of housing and urban development to decide what that means.
Out of the 85033 companies, just 9 responded affirmatively saying that they would use the money saved from corporate tax cuts to increase worker pay or invest in charitable causes: http://bit.ly/2Di92kA.
It is easier to look back at history and acknowledge that violence has sometimes successfully stopped fascists than it is to affirmatively call on your readers to learn to fight in the woods.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter, if she believes the accusers of her father, when he's affirmatively stated that there's no truth to it," she said, smilingly indignant.
" This is how she answered: "I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated there's no truth to it.
Revive HUD's efforts to enforce progress on housing desegregation (under its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule) and ensure people's right to challenge discriminatory policies in the courts (under its disparate impact rule). Yes.
Just 1% of those who are likely to attend in-person said affirmatively that they were considering every single candidate in the field, and no one who plans to attend virtually said the same.
Specifically, Vlaming's school board demanded that he affirmatively use the pronouns "he" and "his" in reference to a female student who had recently announced an intent to begin identifying and presenting as a male.
Sooooooooooooooooo lemme get this straight, a group of municipal law makers affirmatively banded together in agreement over the decision to jail 13 year olds up to 6 mos for over-age trick-or-treating?
If Yates was simply troubled and uncertain about the order despite its OLC approval, rather than affirmatively concluding it was unlawful, Goldsmith argues, she should have simply resigned instead of refusing to defend it.
At first, Trump was attempting to pitch a border closure as an affirmatively good thing for the US, saying it would benefit the American economy because of the trade deficit (which is economically illiterate).
At its core, the high court ruling simply held that no money can be taken from a state or local government employee's paycheck and transferred to a union unless that employee first affirmatively consents.
If a company didn't do certain things such as send notices about updated policies or get people to affirmatively click to agree to its terms, a stronger case could be made against its terms.
But even Democrats who affirmatively endorse abolishing ICE, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old democratic socialist who won New York's 14th District primary, don't embrace the idea of open borders per se.
Except for this: Some of the points made by Hinkie, verbose though they were, Jackson would have to nod affirmatively to, given the increasingly discordant critiques of his two-plus years in New York.
By the time McMaster delivered a second press briefing Tuesday, he was affirmatively defending Trump's decision to share information as "wholly appropriate" — and chiding the press for the "leaks" he'd earlier tried to discredit.
Professor Nielsen said that she believed that the next legal frontier would be for more states to adopt the California standard of "yes means yes" — meaning that women must affirmatively give permission for sex.
If you answer affirmatively to at least eight of those questions – which include whether your debts distract you from your daily life or have impacted your family's welfare – chances are you have a problem.
I am affirmatively, knowingly and voluntarily requesting to return to my country of citizenship without my minor child(ren) who I understand will remain in the United States to pursue available claims of relief.
But for Democrats to actually get the power to affirmatively do something of their own — rather than to just block or gain negotiating leverage over President Trump — they have to look to the states.
In Spotter's defense, the app affirmatively commits to retaining student information only for as long as needed to provide the services to the university — as per their agreement with the university — after which it's destroyed.
Kathy Tran, a sponsor of her state's bill, answered affirmatively during a state legislative session when she was asked by a Republican lawmaker if it would allow an abortion while a woman was in labor.
Did Mueller affirmatively conclude there was no evidence of a conspiracy between Trump associates and Russia to interfere with the election, or just that he just didn't have enough evidence to prove one in court?
In an application for clemency, Reed's attorneys wrote that new evidence has "contradicted and, in all key respects, affirmatively disproven, every aspect of the State's expert-based case against Mr. Reed" and implicates Stites's fiancé.
"In sum, case law from the Supreme Court, this circuit, and other circuits does not affirmatively establish that a constitutional violation occurs when Brady material is not shared during the plea bargaining process," he wrote.
Businesses would benefit through increases in productivity and decreases in turnover from affirmatively investing in all workers, and through these contributions they also play a critical role in sharing the responsibility of improving workplace standards.
"Shelby has made it harder — and made it more important — to affirmatively protect these communities from the spread of restrictions," John Yang, the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, tells Vox.
Few Trump administration officials would affirmatively defend the idea that the people who most deserve to be resettled in the United States, from anywhere in the world, are people who fear persecution from Putin's Russia.
When asked whether he had second thoughts about the recent escalation of the trade war with China, he first answered affirmatively, leading to headlines around the world that Trump had softened his position on China.
It would mandate that every "economically significant" federal regulation — any rule that has an annual impact of $100 million or more — be affirmatively approved by the House and Senate and be signed by the president.
Another potential factor: Iowa eliminated straight-ticket voting in time for this year's election -- which means King won't get votes from people who simply circle the Republican line; voters will have to affirmatively choose him.
In the police report he wrote two hours later, Officer Sell said that when he got to Jason, he asked if he'd been attacked by a man fitting the possible suspect's description and Jason answered affirmatively.
Even if every individual rule makes sense, the steady pileup of new rules, year after year, along with the unforeseen interactions among rules, can produce a policy environment that is affirmatively hostile to innovation and growth.
Given all this, no one should give the Senate Republicans credit for dropping this huge tax cut for the rich unless they affirmatively declare that they will never repeal the investment income tax in any legislation.
Specifically, Mueller had answered affirmatively when asked by Lieu if he did not indict Trump because of the Office of Legal Counsel opinion stating a sitting president cannot be indicted — remarks he walked back Wednesday afternoon.
However, in an application for clemency, Reed's attorneys wrote that new evidence has "contradicted and, in all key respects, affirmatively disproven, every aspect of the State's expert-based case against Mr. Reed" and implicates Stites's fiancé.
During a background check of the former aide, Kevin O'Brien, the association "affirmatively stated that there was no adverse information on this individual," according to a statement from the Department of Investigation, which conducted the check.
Judge Sabraw also ordered the government to stop deporting parents without their children — something that has already happened to an unknown number of parents — unless the parent "affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily" agrees to be deported alone.
Congress's decision to enshrine the duty to affirmatively further fair housing in the Fair Housing Act makes clear that it is not enough for federal agencies and grantees to only respond to acts of housing discrimination.
In states with automatic registration, which cross the political spectrum, an interaction with a government agency, like the Department of Motor Vehicles, automatically registers an eligible citizen to vote, unless he or she affirmatively opts out.
Larry Levitt, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said the Trump administration has "affirmatively argued to overturn" the ACA's pre-existing condition protections in the lawsuit that's making its way through the courts.
If we believe our children's futures shouldn't be determined by the ZIP code where they grow up, we need the disparate impact and affirmatively furthering standards to weed out and replace unjustifiable policies that limit opportunity.
"The scandalous-marks provision simply reflects Congress's judgment that the federal government should not affirmatively promote the use of graphic sexual images and vulgar terms by granting them the benefits of registration," the government's brief said.
Courts have dismissed TCPA suits against WhisperText, Shopkick, Life360, Lyft, and others, because the app's users have to affirmatively agree to invite their friends by selecting them in the app, as is the case with Everalbum today.
Any action by the Justice Department in Zarda's case could offer insight into Sessions' trajectory on this issue — whether he will support affirmatively interpreting existing civil rights laws to say they do, or don't, cover LGBT people.
Neither an agency fee nor any other pay­ment to the union may be deducted from a nonmember's wages, nor may any other attempt be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively consents to pay.
Similarly, Christopher Bogart of Burford Capital, a litigation funder that has lobbied against prohibitions on outside financing of litigation, said courts have "affirmatively (and appropriately) generally decided not to inquire" into who is paying for a case.
Trump's hypothetical stooge at the Justice Department would have to not just be willing to dismiss Mueller, but to affirmatively act to shut down (or at least, rein in) his investigation and the seemingly separate Cohen probe.
Meanwhile, the high priests of the security state not only concealed their radical expansion of government surveillance from the public, but also affirmatively lied about it—while ensuring that legal challenges were shut down on secrecy grounds.
" The report recommends replacing the gifted and talented screening system with "pro-integrative programs used in many school districts across the country to affirmatively attract students of all backgrounds and make sure that all students are challenged.
Legend's comments came after Biden responded affirmatively to a reporter who asked if he would consider renominating Garland, who was seen as a moderate centrist by many in Washington when he was nominated to the high court.
However, in an application for clemency, Reed's attorneys wrote that new evidence has "contradicted and, in all key respects, affirmatively disproven, every aspect of the State's expert-based case against Mr. Reed" and implicates Stites's then-fiance.
For a profile to be submitted to CODIS for a search, the state CODIS administrator must affirmatively assert that it is reasonable to believe that the evidence in question was from a suspect in a criminal investigation.
But it has the effect of making American Muslims feel as if our acceptance is conditional, and can feed into the message that American Muslims are presumed guilty of somehow perpetuating violent extremism until affirmatively proven otherwise.
The people subjected to illegal searches were restrained with "physical force, intimidation, and deceit, even after visitors asked to leave or visitors affirmatively stated that they did not consent to be searched," prosecutors said in court papers.
"The Communications Act and the FCC's rules prohibit a cable provider from charging its subscribers for services or equipment they did not affirmatively request, a practice known as 'negative option billing,' " a statement from the FCC said.
Currently only two Circuits (the Second and Seventh), those governing the states of New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, have affirmatively held that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under the Civil Rights Act.
Okay... I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered.
"The board has not examined Commissioner Malcolm's statement of economic interest specifically, or affirmatively told her that she is in compliance, or noncompliance, with the state's conflict of interest laws," said Jodi Pope, the board's management analyst.
Prop 60's backers want you to think that voting affirmatively for it means you care about sexual health, that you want to control the spread of HIV, that you want to protect sex workers and adult entertainers.
"My goal with these actions isn't just to undo the damage the Trump administration and Republican state legislatures and governors have caused," Booker said, "but to affirmatively advance reproductive rights and expand access to reproductive care for all."
"What I can tell you most affirmatively today, by what happened in the court room, is the spotlight that he tried to shine on Shanann falsely, incorrectly and, frankly, a flat-out lie has been corrected," Rourke said.
But by 2015, when when the most significant challenge made its way to the court, the nine justices would have been affirmatively taking things away from millions of people, and that made it harder to gut the law.
Yet, in the end, Vlaming was fired from the job he loved -- even amid vocal student protests in his support -- because his school board demanded that he affirmatively use "he" and "him" pronouns to refer to the student.
The policy finalized by the administration removed the question and requires immigrants to affirmatively tell DHS officers that they fear for their safety in Mexico in order to have a chance at avoiding being returned to the country.
"What I can tell you most affirmatively today, by what happened in the court room, is the spotlight that he tried to shine on Shanann falsely, incorrectly and, frankly, a flat-out lie has been corrected," he said.
On the other hand, Weems's Heave installation at the University of Toronto, constructed around a body in absentia, by providing all the indicia of this body's lived life, impels the viewer to read this life as affirmatively Black.
And while there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for either candidate this year, there is some speculation that people voting against the opposing candidate rather than affirmatively voting for their candidate might bring people to the polls.
It is well worth your three minutes: I was struck, watching this, that even with all the abuse these young men and women have suffered, they still seem to feel a special obligation to affirmatively prove themselves as British.
On Thursday evening, Mulvaney attempted to claim that he did not admit to the quid pro quo despite clearly being asked if the Trump administration withheld funding for Ukraine for an investigation into the DNC server and answering affirmatively.
As HUD secretary, Castro put into practice the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, part of the 22020 Fair Housing Act that requires cities that receive federal money for housing to examine any potential barriers or biases in housing opportunities.
Notably, industry stocks have risen pretty much every time she has touched federal student loan policy -- including her recent announcement letting servicing companies off the hook from requirements that they affirmatively reach out and try to help struggling borrowers.
The Sierra Club's Washington chapter said "the initiative fails to affirmatively address any of the stated needs of [minority and low-income] communities: more investment in green jobs, energy efficiency, transit, housing and renewable energy infrastructure" in a statement.
And the one tool the federal government has to push back against these segregation patterns is the Fair Housing Act — specifically the part that says local communities that receive federal funds for affordable housing must "affirmatively further" fair housing.
Consider automatic voter registration, a mechanism by which the state automatically puts anyone on the voter rolls who it knows is an eligible voter, regardless of whether they affirmatively sign up, allowing them to opt out if they want.
While the law required HUD to conduct programs in such a manner that "affirmatively furthers fair housing," the definition of that phrase had never been clarified enough to reach the full potential of its effectiveness in promoting equal opportunity.
" Chris Lehane, who was press secretary for Gore's 85033 bid, said, "2000 made clear that a presidential vote is not an academic exercise, but the ultimate right every voter has to affirmatively shape the kind of country they desire.
States consequently have the power to set local law enforcement policies, choosing whether and to what extent to assist ICE [they cannot actively prevent ICE from carrying out its job but are under no obligation to affirmatively aid ICE].
"What I can tell you most affirmatively today, by what happened in the court room, is the spotlight that he tried to shine on Shanann falsely, incorrectly and, frankly, a flat-out lie has been corrected," Rourke said Tuesday.
In response to every question about whether a respondent would change plans that would expose them to others, like travel, eating out at restaurants, and attending large gatherings, Democratic voters consistently responded affirmatively at much higher rates than Republicans.
"It is implausible that Congress intended protections for those with preexisting conditions to stand or fall together with the individual mandate, when Congress affirmatively eliminated the penalty while leaving these and other critical consumer protections in place," she wrote.
At this point, absent some sort of public statement from Trump that affirmatively asserts that Pence has authority within the administration, it's hard to see how the vice president can claim to speak for the White House on matters of policy.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated there's no truth to it," she responded in an interview that aired Monday on the Today show.
"I have substantial concerns when any company that collects sensitive health information from individuals affirmatively makes that information available to law enforcement without appropriate legal process," John Verdi, vice president of policy at the Future of Privacy Forum, told BuzzFeed News.
Then on Thursday evening, Mulvaney attempted to claim that he did not admit to the quid pro quo despite clearly being asked if the Trump administration withheld funding for Ukraine for an investigation into the DNC server and answering affirmatively.
Goldfajn said the targets took into account the political environment, and also responded affirmatively when asked if he expected to stay in his post even if Temer is suspended from office should the Supreme Court try him on corruption charges.
When asked if, consistent with Facebook's stated values on transparency, these quarterly reports would be made public, a spokesperson declined to answer affirmatively or on-the-record, instead writing back that the company would begin proving updates in the coming months.
"Neither an agency fee nor any other payment to the union may be deducted from the nonmember's wages, nor may any other attempt be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively consents to pay," Justice Samuel Alito wrote.
The Lee amendment to the Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appropriations bill before the Senate would defund Obama's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation, which allows federal bureaucrats simply relying upon Census maps to impose zoning decisions on local governments.
Take the example of organ donation rates, which in Austria are more than 90 percent, and in neighboring Germany are about 15 percent; the difference is that Austrians have to opt-out of organ donation, while Germans must affirmatively opt-in.
"My goal with these actions isn't just to undo the damage the Trump administration and Republican state legislatures and governors have caused, but to affirmatively advance reproductive rights and expand access to reproductive care for all," Booker said in a statement.
Americans are tired of endless war in far flung corners of the globe with no discernible American interest and the American people affirmatively rejected this foreign policy approach when Senator McCain lost in a landslide in the 2008 presidential election.
The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule was instated by Barack Obama's HUD in 2015 to strengthen the 1968 Fair Housing Act, by forcing municipalities receiving federal funding to assess local housing segregation—and come up with plans to fix it.
The lawyers wrote in the request that newly discovered evidence has "contradicted and, in all key respects, affirmatively disproven, every aspect of the State's expert-based case against Mr. Reed" and implicates Stites's fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, in her murder instead.
"Neither an agency fee nor any other payment to the union may be deducted from a nonmember's wages, nor may any other attempt be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively consents to pay," Justice Alito wrote.
"I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered," he wrote on Twitter.
The Obama administration made some strides, partly by releasing rules in 2015 that clarified how local communities must not only prevent discrimination, but also affirmatively further fair housing, an element of the original Fair Housing Act that has remained largely unfulfilled.
He has denounced President Barack Obama's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, adopted in 2015, which was intended to end decades-old segregation by offering recipients of federal housing grants more data and encouragement to build affordable housing in poor, segregated neighborhoods.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter, if she believes the accusers of her father, when he's affirmatively stated that there's no truth to it," she told NBC News, the US broadcaster of the Olympic Games.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the prospect of higher tariffs on even a small share of overall U.S. imports has yet again triggered voices that forecast economic doom intended to stave off the United States from affirmatively addressing problems related to international trade.
McConnell said on Thursday the Senate may take a different approach than the House resolution because the nonbinding resolution does not address "imperiled Sunni Arab and minority Christian communities in Syria" and doesn't speak affirmatively on keeping troops in Syria.
"I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered," Buttigieg tweeted in February 2018.
National Review ran an article, as it tends to once every few years, explaining that Lamb's position on this is at odds with Catholic doctrine, which holds that a religious obligation exists to try to affirmatively prevent abortions from happening.
During his tenure, HUD expanded lead safety protections in federally assisted housing, worked to reconstruct communities affected by natural disasters under a $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition, and fulfilled the Fair Housing Act by releasing the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule.
"What I can tell you most affirmatively today, by what happened in the court room, is the spotlight that he tried to shine on Shanann falsely, incorrectly … has been corrected," Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said at a news conference Tuesday.
Hutchinson's Democratic predecessor, Mike Beebe, made Arkansas one of the reddest states to accept the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, and though Hutchinson has used waivers to shift the program in a more conservative direction, he also fought affirmatively to keep the expansion.
Affirmative action started as a governmentally-enforced, and then voluntarily-adopted, policy in the 1960s that intentionally and affirmatively provided an advantage via quotas or preferences to individuals from historically marginalized communities with the effect of helping level an uneven playing field.
The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, put into effect in 2015 under then-President Obama, requires jurisdictions that receive funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assess fair housing and identify solutions to discriminatory barriers in housing markets.
They're suing that he says affirmatively as a statement of fact that he never met her, that he didn't rape her, and that he didn't know who she was — and the court in Zervos held that those are provable statements of fact.
"Did a nation of laws, of equal dignity for all, instill in its people a basic goodness?" he wondered, a question he answered affirmatively when he moved to America and was met with generosity from neighbors and others of all races and creeds.
Soon after, the Obama administration issued a long-awaited rule that required state and local governments to affirmatively further fair housing goals by making efforts to address the cumulative results of the discrimination that historically shut African-Americans out of many communities.
But those steps do not go far enough, nor do they affirmatively indicate an understanding of the ways this virus spreads: Will the incarcerated laborers now creating "NYS Clean," the New York State government-manufactured hand sanitizer, be wearing N95 masks and gloves?
As the American government's best insight into the thinking of and orders from Mr. Putin, the source was also key to the C.I.A.'s assessment that he affirmatively favored Donald J. Trump's election and personally ordered the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
We must always remember that although individual Americans made the choice to vote affirmatively for him or actively withhold their support from his opponent, those decisions were influenced, in ways we cannot calculate, by Russian interference in our election, designed to privilege Trump.
As the American government's best insight into the thinking of and orders from Mr. Putin, the source was also key to the C.I.A.'s assessment that he affirmatively favored Donald J. Trump's election and personally ordered the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
The court also found that evidence showing Williams "planned and executed the murders of three people in two separate incidents" supported the jury&aposs finding that he was a future danger, one of the questions jurors must answer affirmatively in deciding a death sentence.
"Still, most security professionals recognize Huawei's products are problematic so whatever deal is struck — even if it includes security restrictions — will likely be revisited in another administration or challenged by Congress, unless Huawei can affirmatively demonstrate it is not a security threat," said Finch.
In particular, if Congress affirmatively authorizes the executive branch to spend money on something, it is doubtful that a private party would have standing to challenge the decision by the executive branch not to expend funds for some particular purpose within that broad authorization.
Although Springleaf warns borrowers beforehand, and routinely cancels its coverage once they obtain an adequate policy, Springleaf acknowledged in a public filing that "because our customers do not affirmatively consent" to the insurance when it is purchased, "regulators may in the future prohibit" it.
On one level, these lines speaks to the inconclusiveness of any totalizing understanding of our co-existence with others; on another level, and more affirmatively, Gibson's use of indeterminacy blights out the limitations imposed on a life lived at the margins of the economy.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated there's no truth to it," Trump said in a portion of the interview that was aired Monday on the Today show.
Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, suspended the rule, known as the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision, this year over concerns that it put too heavy a burden on local governments that would have to allocate resources to produce the plans.
If Congress truly cares about protecting consumer interests, it's time to permanently and affirmatively enshrine the principles of net neutrality into law using Netflix's throttling debacle as a cautionary tale of what can happen when different sets of rules apply in the Internet ecosystem.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development this week will propose a rule that would redefine the way jurisdictions are required to promote fair housing and scrap a key assessment tool used to map racial segregation under the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.
That is why I have introduced an amendment to the defense authorization bill on the House floor this week and I am finalizing stand-alone legislation to affirmatively prevent the Trump administration from implementing any joint cooperation or coordination with Russia on matters of cybersecurity.
The two key questions Again, work on DACA is still underway on several fronts (which is part of the problem), but that calculation by GOP leadership raises two questions that must be answered affirmatively -- or a government shutdown is really on the table: 1.
Mike Beebe might have pioneered the Arkansas model of using Medicaid expansion dollars for private insurance, but Hutchinson has still affirmatively sought to keep it in place, even as he modified the expansion and added work requirements this year with the Trump administration's approval.
It's possible to support "merit-based immigration" as a way to affirmatively select each individual allowed to settle in the US, and oppose forms of immigration — including family-based migration, humanitarian migration, and the diversity visa — that have any criteria other than an individual's accomplishments.
The problem in the US-Russia relationship for a long time now has been that while Russia does a lot that America sees as misbehavior that it wants stopped, there genuinely isn't that much that America affirmatively wants from Russia or that Russia can do for us.
"A year after the fact, the female student -- who was affirmatively misled by the defendants into participating in a formal complaint process initiated by Yale and not by the student herself -- claimed that just part of her encounter with Montague (the intercourse) was nonconsensual," the lawsuit said.
It also asked whether friends were in gangs, how often the defendant has "barely enough money to get by" and whether it is "easy to get drugs in your neighbourhood"—all questions that ethnic minority defendants will, on average, answer affirmatively more often than white ones.
The "I would say" preface and "if fear was the driving force" line make it clear her comment is a response to people trying to justify Islamophobia as being legitimate, not affirmatively stating a position that everyone should be afraid of white men as a group.
The banking industry is collecting around $15 billion a year in overdraft and nonsufficient fund fees per year despite federal rules that have been in place since 2010 that required customers to affirmatively allow their checking accounts to overdraft, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
So when someone reacts to your question with a thumbs up Tapback, you just don't know: Are they reacting to the message ("Thanks for asking me to go to the beach") or are they replying affirmatively to the message's contents ("Yes, I will go to the beach")?
Such policies include court orders under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, along with enforcement of the June 2015 Housing and Urban Development regulation known as the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, which mandates that local governments produce plans providing for increased integration by race and class.
"Affirmatively furthering fair housing" (AFFH) had nothing to do with a common sense version of anti-discrimination enforcement, which has, historically, meant ensuring that minority buyers or renters would not be turned away from a home or apartment they could afford — when similar white buyers were approved.
"Considering that many consumers likely believe that a phone that lacks a SIM card, or one for which they have affirmatively disabled location services, WiFi, or Bluetooth — such as through turning on 'Airplane Mode' — is not actively tracking them, this alleged behavior is troubling," the lawmakers wrote.
David SchweikertDavid SchweikertBipartisan resolution aims to protect lawmakers amid heightened threats of violence Conservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess The 27 Republicans who voted with Democrats to block Trump from taking military action against Iran MORE (R-Ariz.) confirmed Tuesday that he would vote affirmatively.
In December, the FTC issued the order against General Motors and several used car dealers that said the dealers could sell unrepaired but defective used cars without disclosing that fact to buyers so long as the dealer did not affirmatively promise that the car was safe.
The Senate must hold the next Supreme Court justice to the Personal Liberty Standard, rejecting any nominee who refuses to affirmatively declare that they believe the U.S. Constitution protects individual liberty and the right of all people to make personal decisions about their bodies and personal relationships.
The letter affirmatively answers Toomey's question of whether joint 2013 guidance on leveraged lending from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation could be considered a rule under the CRA.
Earlier this year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) abruptly suspended the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule that required jurisdictions that receive funding from HUD to assess fair housing, analyze the patterns that perpetuate or create segregation, and identify solutions to address challenges and barriers.
" In addition to redefining what constitutes a human life, the Right to Due Process Act would also compel law enforcement officers, officers of the court, and any licensed or state-regulated entity to "affirmatively enforce" a person's right to "life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Two years ago, California became the first state to mandate a "yes means yes" rule, meaning that sexual consent is defined by the presence of a "yes," not the absence of a "no": If both people do not affirmatively consent to a sexual act, it can be considered assault.
We flit from Rhodes gazing thoughtfully over the Cuban seafront to him wearing a sash and serving rice to Buddhist monks in Laos, with only one of his loftier mission statements ("We looked at the world and decided where we wanted to do things affirmatively") to guide us.
The rule, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), was finalized in 85033 under President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaSanders vows to end Trump's policies as he unveils immigration proposal Obama celebrates 'great night for our country' after Democrats' victories in Virginia and Kentucky The Tea Party has died of hypocrisy MORE.
Given our collective familiarity with the robust peer review in the NIH process, we affirmatively recommended to NFL leadership that it invest $30 million with the NIH for the purpose of studying a wide range of scientific issues related to the diagnosis, management and long-term effects of concussion.
"While directors are generally shielded from liability by the business judgment rule, it will be interesting to see if novel theories of law develop if directors aggressively and affirmatively take into account employees, communities, suppliers and stakeholders, and not just shareholder value, in their decision-making process," Huber added.
"I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated that there's no truth to it," Ms. Trump told the NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander in an interview that aired on NBC's "Today" on Monday.
Sterling's lawyers at Seyfarth Shaw and Weil Gotshal & Manges in a filing on Tuesday said the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' November decision in the 12-year-old case caused a circuit split over whether arbitration classes may include potential members who have not affirmatively opted in.
Customs and Border Protection should issue a follow-up guidance note stipulating that Israeli settlement products should be affirmatively labeled as such in order for U.S. consumers to make informed moral decisions about whether they wish to support businesses complicit in and benefiting from Israel's ongoing dispossession of Palestinians.
An Obama administration regulation to require local governments to include specific plans for affordable housing or lose key federal grants was explicitly denounced in the 2016 Republican Party platform: The current Administration is trying to seize control of the zoning process through its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation.
Given our collective familiarity with the robust peer review in the NIH process, we affirmatively recommended to NFL leadership that it invest $30 million with the NIH for the purpose of studying a wide range of scientific issues related to the diagnosis, management and long-term effects of concussion.
The Mueller investigation is done — and according to a summary of the special counsel's conclusions written by Attorney General Bill Barr and submitted to Congress on Sunday, Mueller did not affirmatively find either collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, or obstruction of justice on the part of President Donald Trump.
" U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego said the plaintiff, Evan Parent, did not show MillerCoors affirmatively misrepresented the origins of Blue Moon, a Belgian-style wheat beer, such as by suggesting it is brewed in small tanks and produced in a small brick building run by "The SandLot Guys.
The court in a brief order vacated a 2017 ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals signing off on a North Dakota law that requires lawyers to join the state bar association and affirmatively opt out of the portion of the organization's fees that go toward political activities.
"They affirmatively suppressed evidence ... that destroyed the credibility of their primary witness, impugned their entire case against Mr. Flynn, while at the same time putting excruciating pressure on him to enter his guilty plea and manipulating or controlling the press to their advantage to extort that plea," Flynn's legal team wrote.
" Ms. Klobuchar quoted a Twitter post from Mr. Buttigieg in February 2018 where he said, "I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered.
"EPA has premised the rule on a statutory provision -- Section 6900(d) of the Clean Air Act -- that affirmatively prohibits what it seeks to do: to regulate coal-fueled power plants both under Section 2628(d) and as a source category under Section 28503's Hazardous Air Pollutants program," they wrote.
The freshman congresswoman responded affirmatively to a question on the subject at an event celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday in New York, just as many of the world's billionaires were gathering for the start of the annual Davos economic confab in Switzerland amid concerns over economic uncertainty and rising populism.
If you affirmatively made the decision to write a memo that was unclassified, was that because you felt at some point, the facts of that meeting would have to come clean and come clear, and actually be able to be cleared in a way that could be shared with the American people?
So all I have to do is draw the road I want on a map, include it in a pile of books I donate to a public library somewhere, and if they do not affirmatively throw it out, I have the evidence I need to build a road on public lands for free.
According to the board of regents' summary of a report prepared by Pepper Hamilton, football staff members "affirmatively chose not to report sexual violence and dating violence to an appropriate administrator outside of athletics" — a direct contravention of guidelines associated with Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education.
On the other hand, if five justices had been able to agree that the states did have standing and that the Obama administration's actions were illegal for any reason — even if there wasn't a consensus on the other arguments against them — they would have been able to affirmatively uphold the states' argument.
If you affirmatively made the decision to write a memo that was unclassified, was that because you felt, at some point, the facts of that meeting would have to come clean and come clear and actually be able to be cleared in a way that could be shared with the American people?
The Fair Housing Act, which turned 50 last month, was meant to solve America's segregation problem by requiring state and local governments that accepted federal aid to "affirmatively further" fair housing goals — which meant making credible efforts to roll back segregation, which the federal government itself had fostered through discriminatory mortgage policies.
Ensuring such accommodations in practice, however, was not a great concern for the Obama administration, which went so far as to take the nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor to the Supreme Court about their objection to having to affirmatively opt-out of purchasing employee health insurance covering certain contraceptives.
They were also counteracting a candidate who argued that America was last "great" when slavery was in place, responded affirmatively when asked if constitutional amendments after the 10th should be abolished, and was backed by a president who has engaged in vitriolic attacks against prominent black women while pursuing legislation that would harm them.
"I am pleased that our group was able to come together on a bipartisan basis to affirmatively state once and for all: requiring companies to weaken devices with 'backdoors' means we open up innocent Americans to the bad actors who would love easier access to our citizens' personal information," said DelBene in a statement.
" She adds: "When you have a situation where people's lives and personal security and other liberties and their property are being affirmatively harmed by the conduct of government in promoting and perpetuating a fossil fuel-based energy system ... when you have that level of infringement of constitutional rights, the courts need to step in.
"Republican senators affirmatively voted to allow the president to use his official powers to suppress the opposition party, to purge government employees who proved more loyal to the Constitution than to Trump, and to potentially prosecute or otherwise criminally implicate his political enemies without lawful cause, while shielding Trump allies from legal sanction," he wrote.
But the Democrats' efforts to brand themselves as the party of the demographic future also created a new opportunity for racial-justice advocates to pressure Democrats from the left — challenging them not just to be better than Republicans, but to affirmatively deserve the votes of communities that could just as easily not turn out.
The proposal by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials, included in a not-yet-finalized regulation, would more than double the time individuals who apply for asylum — either affirmatively while already present in the US or after crossing the border and referred to immigration court — become qualified to receive a work permit, from 180 days to 365 days.
"Brett Kavanaugh must affirmatively declare that he believes the Constitution protects individual liberty and the right of all people to make personal decisions about their bodies and personal relationships," a Planned Parenthood spokesperson wrote in an email ahead of Tuesday's session, "including the right to use contraception, to have an abortion, and the freedom to marry whom they choose."
For example, Penal Code 196 reads in part that law enforcement officers can commit homicide if they encounter "actual resistance to the execution of some legal process, or in the discharge of any other legal duty" — meaning that police officers in California can affirmatively defend shooting and killing a person who poses no threat because they weren't obeying orders.
The President's blindsided lawyers may be behind a walk-back statement later issued by Mulvaney, in which he denied a quid pro quo with Ukraine, accusing the media of distorting comments he had made on live television -- where he had clearly been asked whether the administration had withheld funding for Ukraine for an investigation into the Democratic National Committee server and responded affirmatively.
One study using Danish data found that about 85 percent of people, when automatically switched to contributing more to their pensions, will continue to do so, whereas only a small share of people reduce savings when subsidies for savings are cut because in the latter case they have to affirmatively change their behavior rather than just going with the flow.
When Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin BradyKevin Patrick BradyRepublicans' rendezvous with reality — their plan is to cut Social Security The Social Security 2100 Act is critical for millennials and small business owners House panel releases documents of presidential tax return request before Trump MORE (R-Texas) asked Mnuchin if he preferred a "clean raise" to the debt ceiling, Mnuchin responded affirmatively.
In the United States, four principles generally guide the decisions of bioethics: • Respect for autonomy, the right of patients to make their own decisions and determine the health care they wish to receive without coercion • Nonmaleficence, the rule that physicians should "do no harm" • Beneficence, the obligation of health care providers to affirmatively help patients • Justice, the goal of treating all patients fairly and ensuring equitable access to medical services.
Today, rather than encourage the American people toward affirmatively broad forms of human cooperation — nationally and internationally —  Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE discovers safety in a "beautiful" barrier wall of steel slats and concertina wire.
Anyone who's applying for a non-immigrant visa (a visa that doesn't give you the ability to apply for a green card, which includes everything from tourist and student visas to most work visas) has to affirmatively prove to a consular officer that they will not try to stay in the US. There's a "presumption of immigrant intent" — the US assumes that everyone coming to visit wants to live there, until shown otherwise.
And the only reason anyone would affirmatively want to vote for Biden is the same reason so many liberals now despise the very idea of his candidacy: because he has that moderate record, because he's closer to the political center than many of his critics, because he's out of step with what Matt Yglesias of Vox recently called "the Great Awokening" — the sudden leftward turn on issues of race and immigration and identity.
Edward MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyJoseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies MORE (D-Mass.) asked Myers if he agrees with the recent federal report that said humans are the primary driver of climate change, to which Myers responded affirmatively, the Post reported.
To ensure compliance with the TSR, Sun Key made sure that the forms on its Sun Key Websites either: (1) explicitly stated that the consumer was consenting to be contacted by Sun Key's websites via phone about military and education information; (2) clearly stated that the consumers were submitting their phone numbers in order to inquire regarding military and educational opportunities; and/or (3) provided a drop-down menu whereby the individual affirmatively selected whether or not he/she would like to discuss educational opportunities.
At first glance, the news that HUD Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE is dialing back an Obama-era regulation called "affirmatively furthering fair housing" is apt to be misinterpreted — as a move away from enforcing anti-discrimination laws.
A day after Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE said Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's campaign "affirmatively encourages violence" at its rallies, the Texas senator said he'll still support Trump if he wins the GOP presidential nomination.

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