"discrimination" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Judge Henderson's lengthy opinion identified what he called "a narrow but significant window" where the Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action: when it is undertaken to correct past discrimination.
- However, as long as such action is needed to correct discrimination, in fact, it is a case of legitimate differentiation under the Covenant.
- The admission has spawned efforts at universities across the country to correct discrimination against women in the sciences.
- The civil rights division in the Justice Department led an attack on court-ordered measures to correct discrimination, based on the administration's opposition to quotas as discriminatory against whites.
- The European Union's highest court ruled that preferential hiring and promotional practices could be used to correct earlier discrimination.
- For six years the Reagan Administration has insisted that courts cannot order race-conscious remedies even where efforts to correct discrimination have met with steady resistance.
- Catholics would also benefit from measures to correct historic discrimination.
- Today, young activists from privileged backgrounds and elite universities argue that America's poor, its minorities and women deserve no advantage to correct past discrimination at work and school.
- The majority opinion argues frankly against color-conscious remedial action to correct past discrimination.
- A caller asked whether it would be proper to single out certain neighborhoods or ethnic groups for loans with more lenient terms in an effort to correct discrimination.
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