An affirmative answer would violate the rule against the President's creating law unilaterally.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

An affirmative answer will bring comfort to exobiologists a group of people whose subject is, at the moment, based on hope rather than reality.

ECONOMIST: Space exploration

Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, a good plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmative answer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transforming the United States Global Defense Post

If you ask anyone if they believe the government and our businesses should consider long-range thinking, again an affirmative would undoubtedly be the answer.

FORBES: An Alignment of Stupid

And it is perhaps the need to answer that question in an affirmative way that might compel members of Congress to take a more constructive approach.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

If Plum can answer these questions in the affirmative, it will provide a valuable service to parents and an attractive return to its soon-to-be investors.

FORBES: Plum Rents Clothes As Your Baby Grows