Example sentences for: set-asides

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

  • According to the LAT , the 115-page ruling outlaws "assigning children to schools or allocating educational opportunities and benefits through race-based lotteries, preferences, set-asides or other means that deny students an equal footing based on race."

  • The White House hopes, the paper reports, that the new approach will satisfy a Supreme Court ruling that minority set-asides per se are unconstitutional and that race-based awards are permissible only if they are a remedy for a proven record of discrimination.

  • Bennett suggests focusing on such "targets of opportunity" as missile defense and opposition to racial set-asides and partial-birth abortion.

  • To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.

  • Kondracke implored Clinton to prepare for the day when the courts will strike down set-asides based on race.


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