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Example sentences for: affirmative

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This confounds much-publicized concerns that the school's decision to end affirmative action last year would have a chilling effect on minority applications.
The National Party disagreed with too many of the ANC-led government's liberal policies, including affirmative action, legalization of abortion, and abolition of the death penalty.
An article explains why Clinton's much-ballyhooed race initiative is so insubstantial: The poll-driven president was too scared of voter backlash to risk endorsing affirmative action or criticizing police racism.
There's a real difference between affirmative action as it was initially defined (an effort to expand the recruitment pool and make sure that there is no discrimination in the hiring process) and what is generally practiced today: flagrantly color-coded double standards.
In California, Connerly led the successful referendum campaign against affirmative action.