Sentences with phrase «driven by discrimination»

«I don't know if it's driven by discrimination or simple economic factors,» Olsen said.

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Oakland's decision to drive equity into the marijuana legislation assures minority ownership and seeks to compensate for discrimination against those affected by earlier laws.

Like a heavyweight boxer whose momentum had turned, Kalanick has taken punch after punch this year, from the outrage in January over his association with Donald Trump, to the widely - viewed video of his berating an Uber driver, to the explosive blog post by an ex-employee alleging systemic sexual discrimination at Uber, to Google's (googl) charges of theft of its self - driving car technology.

In recent months, we have seen many news reports of gay people being beaten, set on fire, or killed, and there have been numerous cases of young gays who have been driven to suicide by the vicious discrimination they face on a daily basis.

The Bill was designed to «end the anti-competitive practice of geographic price discrimination, which can potentially drive independent retailers out of the market or deter them from cutting prices» by requiring large retailers «to charge the same price at any location that is within 35 kilometres of another of their sites»

That decision marked, to say the least, a major expansion of the scope of the 1964 act and was driven in large measure by the fear that using only a disparate - treatment test (which entailed proof of some form of race - conscious behavior) would allow discrimination by private firms with a history of discrimination by race to slip through the cracks.

««Too pretty to drive a forklift»: Employee awarded considerable damages for workplace harassment and discrimination» — Trinh v. CS Wind Canada Inc., 2017 HRTO 755, by Paul Willetts, Vey Willetts LLP — Ottawa Employment Lawyers

So in this context I'm not sure if the lawsuit filed against Sullivan and Cromwell by Aaron Charney, an apparently still - employed associate at firm, for discrimination based on sexual orientation is simply an unexplained aberration or a new trend towards duking out claims not just in the court but in the court of Internet - driven public opinion.

And even in dissent, Justice Stevens» opinions played an important role, ensuring that a more defendant - protective perspective, driven in part by concerns about the potential for race discrimination in law enforcement, remained a part of the legal discussion.

Russia has the world's fastest - growing HIV epidemic, driven by injection - drug use, and fuelled by discrimination, criminalization and horrific human rights abuses.

Whatever the Supreme Court decides in the current case, some of the justices are clearly unconvinced that discrimination not driven by overt bias is a problem, or at least one that the law should take a stand against.

Jesuit Social Services has nearly 40 years of experience working with people in and exiting the prison system and we know of the significant discrimination and disadvantage experienced by many Aboriginal people that too often drives contact with the justice system.