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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

If affirmative action is abolished, selective colleges and universities will face a stark choice.

It makes it seem as if affirmative action isn't making good on its larger promise.

MR. BUSH -- No, if affirmative action means quotas, I'm against it.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

MR. GORE -- He said if affirmative action means quotas, he's against it.

if affirmative action is needed, to what extent should it be applied?

If affirmative-action efforts are to be truly blind, of course, they will have to be directed at poor whites as well as poor blacks.

What if an affirmative team contends that nuclear armament has hurt Africa?

COPD was considered present if an affirmative response was given to the question: "Do you have chronic bronchitis or emphysema diagnosed by a health professional?" In order to take the complex survey design into account, analytic weights incorporating a design effect were used in all statistical analyses.

If the affirmative action required of federal contractors was a recipe for "proportional representation," then Revised Order No. 4 was bound to leave a large footprint on campus.

If the affirmative action goals the law promotes are worthwhile, and disparate impact is a reasonably effective means of advancing them, then the individual arguably does wrong by not cooperating in this social justice initiative by conforming to law.