How to Use affirmative action in a Sentence

affirmative action

noun

• The end of affirmative action isn’t the only factor affecting the makeup of freshman classes.
  — Annie Ma and Makiya Seminera, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2024
• Fear that the Supreme Court will ban or severely restrict affirmative action may also have encouraged the shift.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 May 2022
• 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
• Even so, Lum said that a majority of the Asian students continue to support affirmative action.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2022
• As admission to elite schools occupy the center of life at Lowell, affirmative action remains a topic that lurks under the surface.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Conservatives have long argued that white working-class Americans fell behind, while liberals have emphasized helping minority groups through policies like affirmative action.
  — German Lopez, New York Times, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024