Sentence examples for abject discrimination from inspiring English sources

Through my school years, I didn't experience the abject discrimination but I was aware that I was treated was differently to other people.

The ethnic bias against these three groups represents a level of abject discrimination that is unlike anything we have seen since the days of the poll tax and literacy tests.

After the war, those children — known as Amerasians — endured harsh discrimination and abject poverty in Vietnam, viewed as ugly reminders of an invading army.

Perhaps the most extraordinary story he tells is that of Precious McKenzie, the 4ft 10in weightlifter who rose from abject poverty, abuse and discrimination in South Africa to win four Commonwealth golds from 1966 to 1978 and become a personal favourite of the Queen.

She worries that the focus on racial discrimination distracts attention from the abject poverty of many Roma and their alienation from modern mainstream norms, which she considers a more serious brake on integration.

At a time when visionary presidential leadership might have used the sacrifice of African-Americans in wartime to change the course of our racial history, Wilson's abject disinterest in, or hostility toward, authentic black citizenship instead set the stage for another half-century of paralyzing discrimination, racial violence and governmental collusion in the denial of civil rights to nonwhites.

That was abject cowardice".

Of all the abject illusions!

This shows abject incompetence.

Breakfast was abject.

What an abject shower.