It gives you a chance to try and take affirmative steps.

It would be well landscaped, properly lighted and should be a very affirmative step in enhancing the village, he said.

But someone has to take an affirmative step to de-escalate this unfortunate situation.

It required all departments and agencies to take affirmative steps to promote employment opportunities for those classes it covered.

The city has also held the shelter residents accountable for obeying the rules that require them to take affirmative steps toward self-sufficiency.

It may be naïve to expect our current crop of leaders to take affirmative steps to alleviate the energy crisis.

Take affirmative steps to ensure that your employees are not involved in harassment.

This arrangement has been ineffective, partly because the board is precluded from taking affirmative steps to deal with Camden's most pressing problems.

Usually the landowner must take some more affirmative steps to protect children.

"So he took affirmative steps to correct that problem."