Sentences with phrase «means of discrimination»

«Allowing prior salary to justify a wage differential perpetuates this message, entrenching in salary systems an obvious means of discrimination.»

The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the gender gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform salary schedule, with teachers» pay based only on experience and education.

The Constitution provides an instructive meaning of discrimination — to give different treatments to different persons attributable only or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, gender, occupation, religion or creed, whereby persons of one description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another description are not made subject to or are granted privileges or advantages which are not granted to persons of another description» - Article 17 (3).

But it was not until she turned 29, that she understood the real meaning of discrimination.

High Court rules against McFarlane & confirms meaning of discrimination A relationship counsellor, sacked by Relate Avon for refusing to give sex therapy to same - sex couples, has had his legal challenge turned down.

They also provide some important insights into the meaning of discrimination as it responds to the specific issues raised by the recognition of native title, a proprietary interest which is inherent to a particular racial group.

It is to the second of these components, the meaning of discrimination as it applies to the extinguishment of native title, that I now turn.

Another factor which has postponed the resolution of the debate as to whether the extinguishment of native title as it occurs under Australian law is discriminatory, is that there has been a high level of uncertainty around the two important components essential to its determination: first the interpretation that the High Court would give to the extinguishment provisions of the NTA and its relationship with extinguishment at common law; and second the meaning of discrimination as it applies to native title.

The courts have had to grapple with the meaning of discrimination in order to compare the treatment of an inherent and thus culturally unique property right with the treatment of other property rights.

Not exact matches

After all, targeted harassment is usually a means of asserting control and defending status on the part of the harasser, to leave victims «afraid, despairing, utterly alone, and complicit,» as Catharine A. MacKinnon wrote in her 1979 book «Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination.»

According to Karen Elliot, an employment law attorney at Sands Anderson, if you have more than 20 employees and use Twitter as the primary means of job postings, you could be hit with a claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.

But the long legacy of discrimination in housing means that there's still a lot of inequality to overcome.

Anyone who doesn't think the discrimination is the same, has no understanding of what it means being gay.

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech should mean there is no discrimination for or against a group because of what it is teaching.

Although choice and discrimination are things to be treasured by any people who want to be self - governing and not merely administered, this demonization of the word discrimination means nearly any new right claimed is a right deserved and, soon enough, bestowed, usually without the bother of legislation.

The designation means the countries engaged in or tolerated «severe violations of religious freedom,» including persecution, harassment, abuse, discrimination and detention of religious minorities or activists and the prohibition of practicing religions not sanctioned by the government.

«Primary» here does not mean chronologically prior but rather primordial, such that the experience of specific objects is always a discrimination within what is given to experience primordially.

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

Race discrimination is a vicious circle, the only means of deliverance from which is a steadfast devotion to truth and right.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

One of the upshots of just war thinking is the rule of noncombatant immunity or discrimination, meaning that noncombatants must not be the intended targets of violence.

Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.

Third, elected officials are there to represent the elected, which does not mean if there are not more atheists in the government that it points to discrimination, but to the vast majority of US citizens holding religious beliefs.

Feel sorry for those and my heart feels for them and wish them guidance to God and true peaceful belief brings love and mercy to humanity which is losing it meaning every day with what's happening all through the world because of disrespect, loss of morals, discrimination, unexplained hatred against nations and religions?!

The meaning of scripture can be twisted to serve the purposes of men so we must do everything that we can to ensure that the «Good Words» that are taught are the actual words of Yehoshua rather than the selected words of Paul and the Old Testament that form the basis of discrimination against women, racial minorities, homosexuals, and «different» religions (including atheism).

«Tell me the old, old story» in this case means that we need continually to repeat the history of discrimination and connect that history with the social effects which linger today.

It means someone who wants to conserve, of course, but we all choose the right to conserve what we believe is and was the best of civilization, based on judgement and discrimination.

Their definition of what it means to be a Christian can certainly be open for debate, but it is not discrimination to have a definition of what it means to be a member of a religion and live by those standards, just like it is not discrimination to have Greek standards, unless everyone who has ever been in a Greek organization is saying that every Greek Fraternity or Sorority must accept everyone who applies.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Committee.

It consists, that is, in overwhelming the nexus by means of some congenial uniformity which pervades it» (PR 154), with no discrimination among the individual members.

Noting qu eers as being a disgusting perversion of what life is meant to be isn't discrimination.

Other groups may not experience the same conflict because they do not read the Constitution in the same way — in the way, for example, that makes no moral discrimination among the kinds of speech or the kinds of political factions that the Constitution was meant to protect.

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Also, application of this principle in regard to post-divorce parenting means that a different standard is applied to children of divorce than to all other children in regard to removal of a parent from their lives... a form of discrimination based on parental status.

All state - maintained schools should be held to the same standards of equality and non-discrimination in the way they operate as each other and be inclusive, and that means an end to religious discrimination in admissions, in the curriculum and in the staffing of our schools.»

In practice that would mean ensuring equal treatment of people with no privilege or discrimination on the grounds of people's religious or non-religious beliefs, including in public services, law, parliament and public policy.

But the TLC's failure to use its regulatory authority does not amount to discrimination within the meaning of the ADA or its regulations.

However, the conference has approved various pieces of the agenda as separate items, including pay equity requirements, anti-housing discrimination and a law meant to crack down on human trafficking.

Being Italian - American means overcoming the prejudice and discrimination that most immigrants have faced (as well as those that continue to face these issues) when they came to our shores in the early part of the last century.

But that doesn't mean Collins has changed his mind on issues such as gay marriage — which the Supreme Court made the law of the land in 2015 — and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the proposed bill that would bar workplace discrimination against gays.

As the editors write in this month's Scientific American, the ruling failed to define what «unreasonable» discrimination of Internet content is, leaving too much up for debate — «the only certainty it gives is of the tens of thousands of billable hours to be spent arguing over the meaning of «unreasonable» in federal court.»

«This research by no means blames women for gender inequality but rather uncovers a novel environmental factor that might contribute to inequality, beyond the well - documented effects of gender biases and discrimination,» said Stephen Garcia, U-M associate professor of organizational studies and psychology.

Researchers had the actors use a scale of 0 - 6, with zero meaning no discrimination and six meaning extremely discriminatory.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

«More than two - thirds of adults in the United States are affected by overweight or obesity, meaning they are also vulnerable to the stigma and discrimination that these proposed policies and laws would help prevent,» said study author Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Rudd Center deputy director and co-author of the study.

Forum: When the meaning is the message — Paul Keddy on the advantages of an alert sense of discrimination

The analysis described in this paper fully exploits the potential of the hybrid technique by means of a multivariate analysis to achieve an unprecedented discrimination power between photon - and nucleus - induced air showers.

Discrimination of ionizing radiation effects on bone using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy using K - means

Despite their pleas, a federal judge ruled the world champion U.S. women's soccer team does not have the right to strike to seek improved conditions and wages before the Summer Olympics, which means that the USWNT, who have had legitimate complaints of pay disparity, discrimination, and poor field conditions, will be headed to Rio instead of protesting these issues.