How to Use affirmative action in a Sentence

affirmative action

noun

• A few decades of affirmative action weren’t enough to erase the gaps.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• 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
• But over the course of the Biden years, the movements around racial issues like affirmative action and DEI sputtered.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• How many times will the question of affirmative action come before the Supreme Court?
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Now that Roe has been overturned, affirmative action is next on the high court’s docket this fall.
  — Van Jones, CNN, 20 July 2022
• In that same scene, her dad makes a snide remark about affirmative action.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Amendment works both ways in the case of affirmative action; race cannot be the only factor in the admissions process.
  — CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
• The ballot measure that would have lifted the ban on affirmative action lost statewide with 57% against and 43% in favor.
  — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• However, the experts disagree on whether the Harvard case will strike the fatal blow and end the more than 40-year use of affirmative action.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2021
• While the court cases progress, some fear a trip back to the Supreme Court could end affirmative action permanently.
  — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024
• A half century or so ago, a group of this kind might have come out hotly against affirmative action.
  — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The firm is also behind a major affirmative action case heading to the Supreme Court.
  — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
• The state isn’t alone this year in the conflict surrounding affirmative action.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Even still, most Americans agree with the goals of affirmative action.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 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
• Then in 2016, Oakland designed the first program that used proxies for race to get around affirmative action.
  — Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• As if these two huge cases were not enough, the court may add another big issue to the docket before the term ends: affirmative action.
  — Brianne Gorod, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
• The affirmative action case probably will be argued in the fall.
  — Mark Sherman, chicagotribune.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• The affirmative action case probably will be argued in the spring.
  — Mark Sherman, ajc, 24 Jan. 2022
• Gideon: Speaking of law on policy, the Supreme Court just banned affirmative action.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Harvard has prevailed in the lower courts but the plaintiffs, led by anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, has asked the Supreme Court to hear the case.
  — Susan Adams, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• 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
• But things have changed a lot since the Supreme Court in 2023 overturned affirmative action at colleges and universities.
  — Maria Aspan, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
• In the past, Elon Musk has also criticized South Africa’s affirmative action business laws.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025