Sentences with phrase «vast disparities in»

Data obtained from the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) through an Access to Information Request reveals vast disparities in refugee claim recognition rates across IRB Members in 2011.

Data obtained from the Immigration and Refugee Board through an Access to Information Request reveals vast disparities in refugee claim grant rates across IRB Members in 2008.

His monumental sculpture U.F.O. (2007) is comprised of brass water utensils fused together in the form of a shiny U.F.O. - like object, suggesting cultural dislocation and otherness, while pointing to vast disparities in wealth across the subcontinent.

Rothstein (2002) points out the vast disparities in housing, health care, and other supports available to children.

The report argues that New York State allows «gerrymandered» districts with vast disparities in population size that, while technically legal, undermine democratic principles.

Surveying 1,120 women in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the public health scientists found vast disparities in which conditions women were willing to treat through pharmaceutical medicines.

No compendium of social statistics is needed to see the vast disparities in economic advantage which separate the inner - city black poor from the rest of the nation.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

Therefore, the vast disparity in average salary increases between PFRS and ERS employees can not simply be attributed to changes in seniority alone.

The reality of historic responsibility, the vast disparity in per capita emissions, the legitimate development needs of countries whose populations struggle with the crisis of poverty and the existential threat posed by climate change must be faced.

Not exact matches

It is not economism as such, but the particular theories that govern our economistic world, that make us largely indifferent to the vast and ever - growing disparity in the distribution of the world's goods.

(2) «Capitalism is responsible for the vast disparity between the rich elite and the poor masses, and so is responsible for much injustice and suffering in the world.»

Both types of socialism can point to accomplishments which include (1) a vast improvement in education and health care for the general populace, to the point where the education and medical care of the poor is in some cases better than that available to them even in advanced capitalist countries; and (2) a reduction in the disparity between the poor and the rich, through supplying goods and services to the poor and also through elimination or heavy taxation of the rich.

Her research portfolio includes findings that suggest disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes begin as early as conception, multivitamin use around the time of conception prevents some miscarriages, over-the-counter use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents is not a probable cause of miscarriage (and may be protective in some women), and the vast majority of uterine fibroids are not associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes including miscarriage and preterm birth, though fibroids are related to a moderately higher likelihood of cesarean.

Writing in Salon, Glenn Greenwald hits on an aspect of the Larry Craig story that ought to raise questions about the intellectual honesty of certain segments of the right - wing blogworld — the vast disparity between many authors» comments 10 months ago and today.

The vast volume disparities, in addition to showing the inadequacy of DOE's NEPA documents, also shows the inadequate waste characterization and inventory information.

Whether he's aware that it's false remains unclear; even if he is, though, the disparity in interest level remains vast.

Despite the vast disparity between the quantity of films I've viewed and «Larry Sanders» episodes, when I recently took part in The House Next Door's «If I Had a Sight & Sound Film Ballot» series, I found it far easier to prune those pictures down to my ten favorites than I did when I applied the same task to «Larry Sanders» episodes.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

Many of the disparities were attributable to vast differences in the amount and value of taxable property within school systems, which ranged from a few hundred dollars to millions of dollars in taxable revenue per pupil.

«I'm pleased to see that an active and assertive campaign from students, parents, and civil rights advocates has helped to reduce slightly the vast racially and disability - driven disparities in exclusionary discipline, but that progress means little to students who are needlessly pushed out of classrooms and denied their chances to learn.»

The works in the exhibition addressed cycles of urban decay and regeneration; building community through shared heritage; immigration and displacement; the longing for home in all its senses; and the vast economic disparities that plague our cities.

The two big issues are «differentiation» (how, in the face of vast international economic disparities, can a global system of stringent commitments be fair?)

After decades of dictatorships, under which shady financial dealings and corruption perpetuated a vast social disparity and a virtually crippled economy, Brazil held its first free election in 1985 — though remnants of the old system continued to hamper its progress.