Synonym: favoritism, favouritism, secernment. Similar words: nomination, combination, inclination, eliminate, description, prescription, nation, limitation. Meaning: [dɪ‚skrɪmɪ'neɪʃn] n. 1. unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice 2. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished.
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151. If discrimination denies them opportunity in one place and offers it to them elsewhere, they will take it.
152. Blacks were demonstrating against employment discrimination and a lack of political representation.
153. According to numerous opinion polls, they solidly oppose the kinds of discrimination that Cardinal Ratzinger condoned.
154. Even recent liberalisation has failed to dispel deep-seated suspicions that discrimination still lurks beneath the surface.
155. This requires a conscious effort, because it is clear that discrimination is more often unintentional than intentional.
156. The aim of the Democrat civil rights legislation was to prevent employers from discriminating against minorities even if such discrimination was unintentional.
157. May responded that this exclusion did not constitute discrimination, nor did it degrade the status of women in the Church.
158. Already a number of police forces have issued directives against discrimination making it inevitable that Darlington police will have a homosexual policeman.
159. The President signed legislation banning discrimination against the disabled on June 26.
160. Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance.
161. The city dropped the age limitation just before a law enforcement exemption to federal age discrimination laws expired in 1993.
162. In the whole, as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate.
163. Age discrimination and fears of age discrimination are alive and well in the workplace.
164. Provided the discrimination was not indirect and unintentional, damages can be awarded to take account of injury to feelings.
165. There is no intention to abolish either county or district councils as a whole and there is no discrimination between them.
166. Meanwhile John Lawer insists he won't be giving up on his epic adventure or his one-man campaign against three-wheel discrimination.
167. Fat women are campaigning against all forms of discrimination currently experienced.
168. That day Khader decided she would devote her life to fighting discrimination against women.
169. This reduces social and historical circumstances to modifying influences on a cognitive structure predisposed to differentiation and even discrimination.
170. You may prefer not to do so because of the risk of breach of confidence or discrimination.
171. Social injustice in the forms of racial and sex discrimination, bullying and oppression of the weak and the poor often get away with impunity. Dr T.P.Chia
172. No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
173. Another proposal was that an independent commission would be set up to examine the question of racial discrimination.
174. The junior adventure story has not suffered the same extremes of literary discrimination.
175. Discrimination against elderly people, however,[sentencedict.com/discrimination.html] appears to be a general feature of cancer treatment.
176. Again, standing alone this evidence is not probative of any discrimination in the local construction industry....
177. Do you have any particular views on sexual discrimination?
178. Sexual discrimination still goes on in the company.
179. For a long time, sexual discrimination prevented women from voting in elections.
180. Discrimination technology for bacillariophyta and pyrrophyta was established by chlorophyll fluorescence excitation spectra of phytoplankton.
More similar words: nomination, combination, inclination, eliminate, description, prescription, nation, limitation, national, zonation, donation, nationwide, explanation, nationalism, international, administration, preliminary, dominate, laminated, discussion, fascinating, distinction, in addition, distribution, in addition to, relation, location, formation, operation, equation.