Example sentences for: discrimination

How can you use “discrimination” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP and NYT write that two new reports commissioned by the Clinton administration reveal that even as the economy has strengthened, discrimination against blacks and Hispanics in the home-buying marketplace has gotten worse.

  • Under international law, discrimination need not be intentional nor de jure (in law) to constitute a violation of various relevant treaties, but merely needs to have the “effect of nullifying or impairing the equal enjoyment or exercise” of rights (paragraph 11 of [20]).

  • To see why, consider this example: Suppose that throughout the oil industry, white executives earn $100,000 while otherwise identical black executives earn $60,000 because of discrimination.

  • Re: If not discrimination, what?

  • Indeed, behavioral experiments with bees have shown that only two color opponent mechanisms are necessary to explain color discrimination data [18,24].


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