How to Use affirmative action in a Sentence

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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
  • Gideon: Speaking of law on policy, the Supreme Court just banned affirmative action.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ending affirmative action at this moment would be, in a word, un-American.
    — Jeff Raikes, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Does the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action apply to companies?
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Several states already have bans or restrictions on the use of affirmative action.
    — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But experts said the fight over race and education won't stop if the nation's highest court ends affirmative action as it is understood today.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But the court’s three liberals argued that affirmative action has been necessary and remains so.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The rationale the court seems prepared to accept in these affirmative action cases threatens far more than a mere change to college admissions policies.
    — Madiba Dennie, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Law student diversity, particularly at elite schools, shrank by up to 17% in the wake of the affirmative action reversal, a new study finds.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Harvard and supporters of affirmative action have argued that there is no such thing as a penalty for Asians and that race is, in fact, one factor among many used to evaluate applicants.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That effort, which culminated in the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions last year, has been brewing for years.
    — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The case is among the first to test the legality of corporate diversity practices in the wake of a June Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The court eventually overturned Roe last year, and affirmative action this past summer.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Some commentators in the press theorized that Democrats on the panel might have been wary of opening a larger conversation about race and affirmative action.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Like the high-profile challenge to affirmative action before the court this term, the Justices will evaluate claims of racial discrimination brought by white people.
    — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • This year’s senior class is the first in decades to navigate college admissions without affirmative action.
    — Collin Binkley, Annie Ma, and Noreen Nasir, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The law's fate is in the hands of a court that has made race a focus of its current term, in cases involving the redrawing of congressional districts and affirmative action in college admissions.
    — Mark Sherman, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
  • When the Court returned for its new term in the fall, the Justices dove into another set of blockbuster cases, on affirmative action, voting rights, and religious liberty.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022

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