How to Use affirmative action in a Sentence

affirmative action

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• The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.
  — Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones Phoebe Zerwick Sam Apple Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Jillian Steinhauer Peter C. Baker John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• This has always been the crux of the affirmative action debate.
  — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• The Supreme Court takes up a case on affirmative action today.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• In that same scene, her dad makes a snide remark about affirmative action.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Three years later, when her case returned to the court, the justices in a narrow ruling upheld the school's use of affirmative action.
  — Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Three years later, when her case returned to the court, the justices in a narrow ruling upheld the school’s use of affirmative action.
  — Jessica Gresko, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2022
• That would be a major shift for the court, which first ruled in favor of affirmative action policies in admissions in 1978.
  — Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Everything from women’s rights to affirmative action is in front of the Supreme Court this session.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Chevron has joined Roe v. Wade and a pair of affirmative action decisions on the list of high-profile, decades-old precedents overturned by this high court.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
• Gideon: Speaking of law on policy, the Supreme Court just banned affirmative action.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Yet, the environment has changed considerably in the six years since the Supreme Court last ruled in an affirmative action case.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• Now the fate of affirmative action is in the hands of the conservative majority Supreme Court.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
• The schools are at the center of two high-profile cases that pose a threat to affirmative action admission policies.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Nikole Hannah-Jones examines how the fall of affirmative action may be viewed as part of a 50-year campaign to undermine the progress of the civil rights movement.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• The Supreme Court appears ready to abolish affirmative action later this year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• In 2017, the IITs introduced an affirmative action scheme for women, and the gender balance has improved.
  — Akanksha Singh, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• Admissions deans rarely speak openly about the subject, and the most data that has been spilled on the matter came about from an affirmative action lawsuit filed against Harvard in 2014.
  — Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
• Last June, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
  — Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• In a statement to The Washington Post, Blum suggested that the case may represent an important new front in the war against affirmative action.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Blum didn’t wait 25 years to challenge affirmative action.
  — Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Now fresh off that landmark affirmative action victory, Blum has set his sights on the private sector.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Blum, who is not a lawyer, has spent the better part of the last three decades organizing legal fights challenging both affirmative action and voting rights.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• But wait, how do elite colleges use affirmative action?
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2022
• PwC is the latest company to succumb to new pressures posed by the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw affirmative action.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
• This is some sort of affirmative action by the platform to find people who would be most responsive to terrorist propaganda and show things to them.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• The Present Study: unintended consequences of affirmative action A program in Brazil both helped and harmed.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• In the court term that begins next month, the court will take up a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, just six years after the court reaffirmed affirmative action in higher education.
  — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
• As an Asian American who is pro-affirmative action, I am disheartened by this.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The Supreme Court’s end on affirmative action took center stage and conjured up the most confusion and uncertainty among colleges and students alike.
  — Arush Chandna, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The hot-button topic was all the rage when the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action rules in admissions procedures for public universities.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024