How to Use affirmative action in a Sentence

affirmative action

noun

• 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
• One participant, a Black father, understood the need to keep race in the equation and drew a parallel to affirmative action.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021
• Colleges that adopted affirmative action in their admissions programs quickly faced challenges.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This week, the Justices agreed to hear what may be two explosive cases on affirmative action.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2022
• Tanton admired Taylor’s 1992 book about the failure of affirmative action to fix race relations.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
• After the end of affirmative action, some U.S. campuses are showing a decline in Black and Latino students, as well.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024