Sentences with phrase «discriminate against the majority»

«In other words, our education system is currently set up in such a way as to discriminate against the majority of children within it.

Not exact matches

The minority has no obligation to roll over and play dead if the majority wants to discriminate against them.

Not only are Muslims in Europe discriminated against and feared, but Christians in majority - Muslim refugee camps are also threatened, insulted, and attacked.

In a land where Christians have been culturally dominant and are still the majority, achieving such a public equity seems almost to require that Christianity be discriminated against.

Stop acting like you are the one being discriminated against when you are the overwhelming majority in this country.

I just don't see why it discriminates against voters of major parties; it simply finds out which candidate has majority suport among all voters.

«Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak)(Lab): Given that the vast majority of the 600,000 people who will be excluded from getting a pension under the raised threshold are women, is the Secretary of State at all worried that the Bill is beginning to look as if it discriminates against women?

There should not be one law for the travellers and another for local residents, otherwise we would be discriminating against the law - abiding majority.

Mr Justice Gilbart, sitting in London, said Mr Pickles» department had «coined and developed» a practice in 2013 - 2014 of calling in all, and then a majority, of Green Belt traveller cases - most involving Romany gypsies or Irish travellers - «which discriminated unlawfully against a racial group».

Unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory because the Common Core SBAC test fails to measure what has actually been taught in the classroom, that the SBAC test is based on materials that is more than two to three levels above grade level, that the SBAC test pass / fail score is calibrated to fail the majority of public schools students and that the SBAC test is particularly unfair because it discriminates against those who face English Language barriers or need special education services.

A shocking percentage of white Americans believe that they are discriminated against racially and that their dwindling demographic majority is an actual threat rather than a natural outcome of a changing society.

Students representing majority tend to impose their authority on minority representatives and willingly or under peer pressure discriminate against students representing the minority.

And given the new reality, the legal issue for consideration now and in the future by Canadian law societies and courts is not whether TWU Law graduates would become good lawyers and judges who do not discriminate against LGBTQ people — few opponents of accreditation doubt that the vast majority of them would become good lawyers and judges despite some discriminatory beliefs.

On Friday, January 25, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a tight majority judgment (five: McLachlin, Deschamps, Abella, Cromwell and Karakatsanis, against four: LeBel, Fish, Rothstein and Moldaver) that the Quebec Civil Code discriminates against common - law spouses because it does not grant them the same rights as married couples in regard to spousal support and division of property.

On November 2, lawyers from Miami Law's Health Rights Clinic, with Florida Legal Services and the Community Justice Project, sued DCF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Miami Workers Center, New Florida Majority, and a class of disabled individuals claiming that the system discriminated against persons with disabilities who could not endure these conditions.

Thus for a wide array of managerial tasks — from hiring, firing, and promoting to contracting services and forming partnerships — qualified minority candidates are subtly and unconsciously discriminated against, sometimes simply because they are in the minority: There are not enough of them to counter the propensity for in - group favoritism in the majority.

The majority of human rights statutes in Canada establish that an employer can not discriminate against an employee on the basis of family status.

... when those in the majority or those in power allocate scarce resources (such as jobs, promotions, and mortgages) to people just like them, they effectively discriminate against those who are different from them.

Perhaps the most well - known case is that of Bhinder v. Canadian National Railway, which involved the occupational requirement of wearing a hard hat.29 The majority of the Supreme Court of Canada found that C.N.'s requirement that employees wear hardhats was a bonafide occupational requirement, even if it had the effect of discriminating against Sikhs.

The overwhelming majority of cabin crew are female and without some positive action to only recruit men and discriminate against women, that is not going to change.