The cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

Usage examples of discrimination.

Congress is impotent to control the intrastate charges of an interstate carrier even to the extent necessary to prevent injurious discrimination against interstate traffic.

Among those who had the discrimination to appreciate, and the heart to feel for him, luckily for Curran, was Mr.

Pitch discrimination seems to depend on structural factors which are not susceptible of improvement by practice.

It forbids all invidious discrimination but does not require identical treatment for all persons without recognition of differences in relevant circumstances.

This was the woman who had showed discrimination and calmness in face of a great danger on the Garonne.

It cannot be the case that the equal-protection clausewhich was designed to target racial discrimination against blacksimposes a higher burden of proof on blacks seeking its protection against discrimination in life-or-death cases than on voters who claim that their vote may have been diluted by an unknown and tiny amount in a random, nondiscriminatory manner.

Chapter II THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRAND IT is not so easy to tell why discredit should be cast upon a man because of something that his grandfather may have done amiss, but the world, which is never overnice in its discrimination as to where to lay the blame, is often pleased to make the innocent suffer in the place of the guilty.

Fourteenth Amendment reapportionment case at all, but rather a Fifteenth Amendment case of specific racial discrimination.

Both the blue and the note are immediately posited by the discrimination of sense-awareness which relates the mind to nature.

Much confusion has arisen from the great variety of names, applied without discrimination to the various tribes of Saulteurs and Crees.

A great deal was being written nationally about racial disharmony in big-city police forces, notably the Los Angeles Police Department, where ugly discrimination against blacks, both on and off the force, had had semiofficial approval from the top over many years.

During those two hours, the staff had been working on a blockbuster story telling how Harlem had gone on strike, no one was reporting for work, and while there had been no announcements, the action was obviously well-organized and clearly a massive protest by the black community against bias, discrimination, and all forms of tokenistic, non-Jewish liberalism.

He was no longer guided in his choice by liking and appetite: he had to put it on the edge of a sharp discrimination, and try it by his acutest judgement before it was acceptable to his heart: and knowing well the direction of his desire, he was nevertheless unable to run two strides on a wish.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, plus the set of laws passed in the late 1860s and early 1870s, gave the President enough authority to wipe out racial discrimination.

Is not a bunch of chrysanthemums a sort of take-it-or-leave-it declaration, boldly and showily made, an offer without discrimination, a tender without romance?