Examples of affirmative action

• However, in contexts with affirmative action programs, these traits are simultaneously socially equalizing or advantageous.

• In the unobtrusive version, the affirmative action statement is embedded in a list of other potentially objectionable items about taxes, pollution and so on.

• Our unobtrusive measure (described below) allows us to discern respondents' opposition to affirmative action without requiring them to reveal their opposition to the survey interviewer.

• As noted above, the party position on the status of the state and on affirmative action as a principle is decisive.

• The danger of racialised competition is assessed, and a policy of non-racial, class-based affirmative action is suggested as the most feasible way to facilitate reconciliation.

• So far, affirmative action has advanced the fastest in civil service employment.

• This is the kind of logic that undergirds affirmative action measures.

• Some accepted desegregation in principle but opposed the means chosen to implement it : federal intervention, busing, or affirmative action.