Sentences with phrase «use of race as»

A concern raised about MEPA / IEPA was the potential increase in transracial adoption due to the penalties for the use of race as a factor in placement decisions.

«While the use of race as a rating factor was outlawed in Florida... occupation and education has emerged in the rating and underwriting of auto insurance and appear to be highly correlated to race and income - level,» according to the report.

The decision upheld the use of race as one of many factors, but ruled against setting aside positions that could only be filled by members of racial group («forecloses consideration to persons like respondent»).

In a historic decision, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court upheld the use of race as one factor among many that may be taken into account by the University of Texas in its admissions policy...

Recently, the New York City Department of Education's Education Panel (a structure more accustomed to advising than governing) voted to omit a footnote in the city school's admissions policy limiting the use of race as an admissions criteria.

The 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan — but approving the use of race as one of many factors in admissions decisions — has had little impact on magnet schools, mainly because most had already abandoned the use of quotas.

And the use of race as a proxy by some reformers, to gauge the seriousness of other reformers» commitments to issues of social justice, is a relatively new phenomenon.

More fundamentally, the use of race as the basis for evaluating a film, or any other creative work is artistically bankrupt and politically reactionary.

In 2013, in a 7 - 1 vote (Justice Elena Kagan recused herself), the Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower courts, saying they had failed to adequately determine that UT's use of race as a factor in its admissions was necessary and that the policy was «narrowly tailored.»

Fortunately, the Supreme Court did not eliminate the use of race as a factor in the University of Michigan Law School admissions process (see the full text of the court's decision here).

As opposed to 2014, Cox sees a clear path for a Republican victory this year — with the governor's mounting scandals, his second - term swing to the left that has created resentment upstate, and his use of the race as a springboard for a presidential bid, which Cox said would rub voters the wrong way.

One can argue for the use of race as a social construct, but in that case, skin colour has as much to do with it as shoe size.

Not exact matches

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

As a result, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a race to the bottom, as they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profitAs a result, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a race to the bottom, as they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profitas they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profits.

The winner, who receives newly - minted Bitcoin as their reward, wins the race by providing the answer to a mathematical problem that is deliberately designed to use up a lot of computing power, in order to maintain stability in the speed at which these blocks are «found.»

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the use of race in college admissions is constitutional, so long as explicit «quotas» aren't used.

«I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.

CNN: My Take: When it comes to «God» in our political platforms, less is more Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» discusses how the Republican and Democratic parties have used God as a ««prop» of our politics» during the 2012 presidential race.

Remember 2008 when people used to say he wasn't electable because of his name, his race, his financial situation.Tea party movement is a blessing for him as they are hurting republicans they are not hurting Obama.for 99 % of African Americans who by the way are mostly unemployed Obama is still a God.

This is particularly true for advocates of the evolutionary theory, which has frequently been used to justify acts of mass genocide when one race is regarded as being superior and more highly evolved than another.

When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God; because then, as always, they used religion as a means of advancing their commercial interests.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

The principal value of the scientific study of race is to render the concept more exact than it is in common use and to demonstrate its severe limitations as a classification device.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

Its used as a mask so that others wil think that somehow theft, murder, biggotry and the extintion of other races are somehow noble acts when done in the name of a god or an ideal.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

Trigster: the Book of Mormon was written by dark skinned people, who probably knew nothing of the white supremacy you accuse them of... it does use ancient language, but they were not racist in our terms, the Nephites and Lamanites of the Book of Mormon viewed themselves as «brothers,» they were all one race.

Not only must the use of the radio spectrum, as a technical matter, be on terms which are mutually acceptable to the members of the human race, but through the ITU, its users contribute the knowledge of the propagation and other characteristics of the radio spectrum which is the by - product of its use.12.

My quarrel with the guardians of the establishment is not that these things are bad, but rather that the establishment leaders use artificial barriers, such as race and religion and ethnic origin, to exclude certain segments of the population from ever having the opportunity to enjoy these fruits of the good life.

Although Paul uses other figures to describe this saving work of Christ (as, for example, his having become a new Adam, a new representative man, thus restoring in the race the image of God which sin had marred), this is his most characteristic interpretation of the meaning of the man Jesus and his work.

You're the one who races to cry foul anytime someone expresses warranted fear of a SELECT FEW who use the name of your beloved religion as a vehicle for destruction of non-followers.

We need to get back to the use of the term «race» and its misuse as a pseudonym for «religion»: deny it has anything to do with race, and you deny by implication that it's a Muslim problem.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

Racial intermixtures have produced some very white - skinned Negroes with blue eyes and fair hair, yet the product of such a union remains a Negro.5 Race as the term is commonly used designates very nearly what the Germans call Volk — a group sharing a common cultural tradition, whether of achievement or servitude, with some measure of national, geographical, and biological affinity.

The concept of race (based on phenotype — such as the amount of melanin in the skin — this is what Chad means when he uses the word) has largely been discredited and discarded due to our recent understanding of the human genome.

We have a kind of race memory of how they were used at the Reformation, or perhaps an actual memory of evangelical students shouting phrases such as «Justification by faith!»

Today, the race to reduce the amount of materials used in our packaging is as ambitious as ever.

Then factor in the pressure that comes with a title race towards d end of d season, which will surely crack our opponents as we are already used to it.

Forty - one hours after embarking on the hiking leg that took the lead teams 12 hours to finish, the captain of Team Moron, as it had come to be known, used his emergency radio to make contact with race headquarters.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Indeed, as used in the case of Karin Yarosh, a 20 - year - old apprentice jockey who was critically injured in a fall during a race at the Baltimore track on April 8, the dark whisperings made an unfortunate accident unseemly.

As for creating a rotary engine for use in such ultra-exotic races as Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile racAs for creating a rotary engine for use in such ultra-exotic races as Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile racas Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile race.

As the only professional horse race handicapper of her sex in the country, Jobie uses it to jot down likely winners for The Miami Herald and The Lexington (Ky.) Herald.

Arsenal's 10 - 2 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich is used as the impetus for the rapid rise in protestations, and our side has since dropped right out of the title race, and are now in danger of missing out on the top four also.

But whilst the used set of the yellow - walled softs wouldn't have been as effective as the new sets on the Red Bulls, Hamilton might have been a defensive, fighting duck rather than a sitting one towards the end of the race.

He did however say that Fernando had made the right move by using the Daytona 24 Hours as a way to learn the art of endurance racing and to get a feel for if he likes it.

The full - time Formula One driver, who skipped the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indianapolis, executed a textbook pass of defending race - winner Alexander Rossi where he used the draft to slingshot to inside of Rossi and then by as they raced down the frontstretch and into Turn 1.

It also adds a bit of much - needed variety to the LMP2 class as Racing Team Nederland will be running a Dallara P217, which so far makes it the only team not to be using an Oreca chassis.

1) Use 45 % of the track operator's share as racing purses, instead of the 35 % -40 % paid by most big tracks, including those in New York.