noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
age discrimination
▪ laws against age discrimination in the workplace
age discrimination
gender bias/inequality/discrimination (=when one gender is treated unfairly)
▪ Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom.
positive discrimination
racial discrimination (=when particular races of people are treated unfairly)
▪ We found no evidence of racial discrimination.
reverse discrimination
sex discrimination
▪ She is suing the company for sex discrimination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blatant
▪ The Department of Defense was notorious in its blatant discrimination against its non-U.
direct
▪ Older workers also experience more direct forms of discrimination.
▪ His transfer to current affairs was blocked - the result, he still believes, of direct political discrimination.
▪ Further, the limited evidence points to both indirect and direct discrimination within the social security system.
indirect
▪ It did not outlaw indirect discrimination and indeed the concept of indirect discrimination did not appear in the legislation.
▪ The second type of discrimination, indirect discrimination, is to deal with the more hidden forms of bias.
▪ They are what is meant by indirect discrimination.
▪ While schools and housing were required to tackle indirect discrimination, Whitehall was looking after its own.
▪ Further, the limited evidence points to both indirect and direct discrimination within the social security system.
▪ An equivalent definition of indirect race discrimination occurs in the Race Relations Act 1976.
positive
▪ There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations.
▪ The report did not call for positive discrimination but suggested that male, old-school attitudes still prevailed in hospitals.
▪ This suggests positive discrimination in favour of older people.
▪ Inevitably it will include strong elements of positive discrimination.
▪ This was a form of positive discrimination in favour of locals.
▪ The caste system, he says, will never be abolished by social reform or positive discrimination in favour of Untouchables.
▪ There were, however, a number of variables other than positive discrimination policies, which accounted for this relationship.
▪ Even with a more aggressive policy of positive discrimination, it is doubtful whether geographical inequalities can be overcome.
racial
▪ Business is booming for an Avis franchisee in the Carolinas despite well-publicized allegations of racial discrimination against customers.
▪ Is he guilty of racial discrimination?
▪ Co. have sued the securities firm for alleged racial discrimination over an electronic mailing they said contained racist jokes.
▪ Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
▪ He also reported that racial discrimination was endemic in the schools of employees' children.
▪ New Hanover executives have denied requests for comment on the charges of racial discrimination.
religious
▪ It had previously been notorious in some areas for the manipulation of electoral boundaries and for the practice of religious discrimination.
▪ Students do not need to be victims of racism, sexism, religious discrimination, or homophobia to feel like outsiders.
▪ To begin with, Catholics objected to religious discrimination reflected in the unfair allocation of jobs, housing and industrial investment.
▪ The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
reverse
▪ At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.
▪ The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.
▪ Thomas was renowned as a vigorous opponent of affirmative action or reverse discrimination, espousing minority self-help rather than racial quotas.
▪ She does think it is sometimes reverse discrimination but wonders how else people will move up.
▪ There are a number of legal formulae by which any suggestion of reverse discrimination is ruled out.
unfair
▪ As for Mr Gilbert, an industrial tribunal dismissed his claim of unfair discrimination.
▪ But unfair discrimination can keep women from the opportunity to become a boss.
unlawful
▪ A finding of unlawful discrimination may be made even though the employer has no intention to discriminate.
▪ This leads us to consider the meaning of unlawful discrimination.
▪ Such legislation gives individuals the right of direct access to the civil courts and industrial tribunals for legal remedies for unlawful discrimination.
▪ But it is not only at the recruitment stage that age ranges can be unlawful discrimination.
■ NOUN
age
▪ Arbitrary age discrimination can affect everyone.
▪ There is lots of age discrimination in the world of jobs.
▪ There is also evidence that the economic effects of age discrimination are harsher in Britain than other comparable countries.
▪ So how did Mrs Price win her case when she was alleging age discrimination.
▪ The city dropped the age limitation just before a law enforcement exemption to federal age discrimination laws expired in 1993.
▪ The major cost of age discrimination is economic dependency, the most extreme form of which is poverty.
▪ Court records show Steve Forbes was sued for age discrimination by his 65-year-old secretary.
case
▪ No discrimination case, though, was as bizarre as the one that arose when I was representing Guardian National Bank.
▪ These rules vastly increased the number of discrimination cases that could be won or settled favorably out of court.
employment
▪ The Bill sought to prohibit employment discrimination against qualified disabled persons on the ground of their disability.
▪ Blacks were demonstrating against employment discrimination and a lack of political representation.
gender
▪ Women's groups also resented the imposition of limits for gender discrimination while damages for racial bias were unlimited.
▪ They started out as a radically inclusive spiritual fellowship in which race and gender discrimination virtually disappeared.
▪ Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
▪ Justice Ginsburg has actually built her career on pushing for stricter standards on gender discrimination.
▪ The sharia resurgence has created social complications and gender discrimination.
▪ In the process, Clementsen has become a talking point in the debate over gender discrimination.
▪ Some large private companies are also quietly adjusting their pay structure to remove race and gender discrimination.
job
▪ That interpretation was widely viewed as favoring business over minority and female employees attempting to charge job discrimination.
▪ Boxer said she might support the marriage bill if it is amended to prohibit job discrimination against gays and lesbians.
▪ Was I supposed to sit idly by until I, or some one I knew, encountered more job discrimination?
▪ Bradley said the bill that passed was much weaker than the original version, which spelled out remedies for job discrimination.
▪ They have exerted a definite deterrent effect on the previous job discrimination experienced by epileptics and other people with medical handicaps.
▪ Local and national epilepsy organizations can also be helpful to those experiencing employment problems or job discrimination.
law
▪ Nevertheless, other lessons from abroad will need to be learnt before any new disability discrimination law can work.
▪ The city dropped the age limitation just before a law enforcement exemption to federal age discrimination laws expired in 1993.
▪ Disability discrimination law is remarkably sensitive to this argument.
lawsuit
▪ Then, in 1994, he was approached by a colleague to work on a race discrimination lawsuit against Texaco Inc.
▪ The settlement is the largest ever in a U.S. race discrimination lawsuit, according to the U.S.
▪ He was a key figure in a discrimination lawsuit aimed at integrating the department.
price
▪ There are at least three important possibilities: cost-based pricing, valued-based pricing and price discrimination.
▪ Third, price discrimination may appear in the guise of loyalty bonuses, rebates, and discounts.
▪ You can therefore think of this as a price discrimination problem with one producer and two markets.
▪ This article does not propose to explain the theory behind profit maximisation with price discrimination.
▪ Passport schemes are a price discrimination device which allows subsidies to be directed towards target groups.
▪ Division A will see its own price discrimination problem.
▪ Bureaus can thus under some conditions exercise wage and factor price discrimination.
▪ This dictum applies particularly to price discrimination and vertical restraints.
race
▪ As with race discrimination, damages can not be awarded if the discrimination is found to have been unintentional.
▪ Then, in 1994, he was approached by a colleague to work on a race discrimination lawsuit against Texaco Inc.
▪ An equivalent definition of indirect race discrimination occurs in the Race Relations Act 1976.
▪ The settlement is the largest ever in a U.S. race discrimination lawsuit, according to the U.S.
■ VERB
allege
▪ Government complaints alleging racial discrimination in rental policies have al ready been filed in Miami and Minneapolis.
▪ McAuliffe, for alleged discrimination because he is HIV-positive.
▪ She complained to an industrial tribunal alleging discrimination on the basis of the age range specified and she was successful.
▪ Co. have sued the securities firm for alleged racial discrimination over an electronic mailing they said contained racist jokes.
▪ BActress Hunter Tylo is alleging wrongful termination and discrimination.
▪ The parents' civil-rights complaint also alleges discrimination in other sports and outlined problems ranging from inconsistent discipline to withholding opportunities.
ban
▪ The President signed legislation banning discrimination against the disabled on June 26.
end
▪ Sometimes the only way to end discrimination against older people is to offer positive measures to suit their special needs.
▪ Government is still free-and required-to move decisively to end discrimination when it happens, case by case, he said.
▪ Similar attempts to end discrimination in jobs and housing also created new stresses between the races.
▪ Brown demonstrated that courageous leadership can make a difference in ending racial discrimination, perhaps more so than bureaucratic bean-counting exercises.
▪ Mr Mullin said that any attempt to persuade clubs to end discrimination by blocking their entitlement to rates relief was illegal.
▪ But Clinton will work hard for legislation to end discrimination against gays in the workplace, he said.
▪ This kind of approach should end discrimination.
▪ It was charged with finding and ending racial discrimination in war industries under government contract.
face
▪ Both communities suffer continual harassment from a blatantly racist police force, they face discrimination in courts and in prison.
▪ Some groups consistently face discrimination: age is one mode of socially structured disadvantage.
fight
▪ That day Khader decided she would devote her life to fighting discrimination against women.
▪ At the end of the draft, the platform spells out the traditional Democratic support for fighting discrimination and protecting civil rights.
▪ And he has taken steps to help Gypsies find jobs and fight discrimination.
▪ If I became a lawyer, I could fight discrimination daily.
oppose
▪ According to numerous opinion polls, they solidly oppose the kinds of discrimination that Cardinal Ratzinger condoned.
outlaw
▪ It did not outlaw indirect discrimination and indeed the concept of indirect discrimination did not appear in the legislation.
▪ A Cabinet report does not, however, favour legislation to outlaw age discrimination.
prohibit
▪ The Bill sought to prohibit employment discrimination against qualified disabled persons on the ground of their disability.
▪ Boxer said she might support the marriage bill if it is amended to prohibit job discrimination against gays and lesbians.
▪ The Act prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or nationality.
▪ He has revised regulations to prohibit discrimination against gays serving in federal government.
▪ As a result of increased public interest, more than a dozen states have passed laws that prohibit insurers from genetic discrimination.
▪ California law prohibits housing discrimination based on marital status.
▪ Recent federal laws prohibiting discrimination based upon a handicap or other health related conditions have been helpful.
suffer
▪ Hanoi also accepted back more than 100,000 refugees, who are said to have suffered virtually no discrimination on their return.
▪ The protesters, some of whom told how they had suffered from discrimination, were nearly all high school or college age.
▪ It is plainly true that in our society blacks have suffered discrimination immeasurably greater than any directed at other racial groups.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a plan to tackle racial discrimination in the police force
▪ a sex discrimination case
▪ Federal law forbids discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or color.
▪ He believed his boss had violated the age discrimination law.
▪ Immigrants faced harassment and discrimination, and were paid considerably less than their white colleagues.
▪ In 1974 IBM became the first American company to bar discrimination against gay workers.
▪ Laws have got to be tougher to stop discrimination against the disabled.
▪ Many women still face sex discrimination in the military.
▪ racial discrimination
▪ The company was found guilty of racial discrimination, and was ordered to renew Ms. Jayalalitha's employment contract.
▪ The Department was notorious for its blatant discrimination against non-U.S. citizen employees.
▪ The most common victims of age discrimination are employees in their mid-50s.
▪ The policy forbids any form of discrimination against gay and lesbian students.
▪ They managed to reform American law, and ban racial and religious discrimination in housing, schools, and the workplace.
▪ White-male fears of reverse discrimination have been widely exaggerated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But unfair discrimination can keep women from the opportunity to become a boss.
▪ In the past few weeks the government has once again blocked an attempt to give disabled people legal protection against discrimination.
▪ It did not outlaw indirect discrimination and indeed the concept of indirect discrimination did not appear in the legislation.
▪ No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
▪ Political repression and racial discrimination were at a high point.
▪ The result continues to be discrimination.
▪ The truth is that social discrimination continues, somewhat attenuated in the North, but hardly at all attenuated in the South.