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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The group was behind the cases that led the high court to reject affirmative action in higher education in June 2023.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
• Mostly, this takes the form of attacks on affirmative action and similar policies.
  — Thomas F. Powers, National Review, 1 Dec. 2024
• The plaintiffs vowed to appeal the ruling all the way to the Supreme Court, which last year carved out an exception for military academies while banning affirmative action at most colleges.
  — Nate Raymond, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025