Sentences with phrase «by immutable characteristics»

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Much of the thinking at the time was influenced by J. McVicker Hunt's Intelligence and Experience and Benjamin Bloom's Stability and Change in Human Characteristics, both of which questioned the popular view that intelligence was immutable.

The principal object of certain of the prohibited grounds [referring to s. 15 of the Charter] is the elimination of discrimination by the attribution of untrue characteristics based on stereotypical attitudes relating to immutable conditions such as race or sex.

When asked by Justice Russell Brown whether law school tuition fees were a discriminatory barrier to entry, the AG's counsel stated that while tuition does not engage an immutable personal characteristic like sexual orientation, «[t] here may well be an argument in a different case that an accredited law school may not set their fees so prohibitively high... so as to curtail the [admission] of meritorious candidates.»