"background" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was reproached for referring to a "disadvantaged population that doesn't have that genetic, hereditary background" to perform well on standardized tests.
- Or do we deal with a disadvantaged population that doesn't have the genetic, hereditary background to have a higher average?
- The words were spoken last November when he made a convoluted remark during a two-hour faculty meeting, referring to disadvantaged students who lack the "genetic, hereditary background" to score well on college admissions tests.
- A promotion to a higher military rank was based on military skill, not hereditary background, so was a classic meritocracy.
- It was one year ago this week that Francis L. Lawrence, the Rutgers president, told a faculty group that black students lacked the "genetic, hereditary background" to excel on college admissions tests.
- At a two-hour faculty meeting, Lawrence referred to disadvantaged students as lacking the "genetic, hereditary background" to score well on college admissions exams.
- The Rutgers president, in referring to "genetic, hereditary background," put a tangible face on a deeply rooted issue the B.C.A. exposed last year.
- Today, the board chairman, Carleton A. Holstrom, said the trustees "repudiate" the president's comment on "genetic, hereditary background."
- Lawrence said at a faculty meeting last November that disadvantaged students may lack the "genetic, hereditary background" to score well on college admissions exams.
- Last year he sparked campus-wide protests by referring to minority groups as a "disadvantaged population that doesn't have that genetic hereditary background" to perform well on standardized tests.
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