Example sentences for: class-based

How can you use “class-based” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Perhaps we should replace affirmative action with a class-based alternative.

  • The cover story maps a political agenda to engage the apathetic Generation X: fiscal restraint, investment in education and training, and class-based affirmative action.

  • It may turn out that the X Percent gimmick is just that, and that if you want to substitute class-based preferences for race-based preferences, there's no short-cut that miraculously avoids the need to examine each individual's record--or that automatically produces high minority admissions.

  • A controversy is brewing over the popular 1996 book Demonic Males, by Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham and science writer Dale Peterson, which argues that male violence is a legacy of our primate past--not a race- or class-based social problem.

  • Where he tries to lay out a policy agenda, as in his recent book The Future of American Progressivism (co-written with Roberto Mangabeira Unger), I think he oscillates between dreary, conventional ideas (public financing of campaigns, class-based rather race-based affirmative action, a consumption tax) and utterly impractical ones (a modified parliamentary system, explicit economic redistribution, mandatory voting).


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