Sentence examples for backdrop of discrimination from inspiring English sources

Changing Role of Women The rise of women comes against a backdrop of discrimination that has permeated radical Islam.

Watching that pain on stage, against the backdrop of continued discrimination against the Gypsies, it is impossible not to listen.

A simple story of the complicated Ipe family set in the backdrop of social discrimination, communism and caste system, this book is mainly based on the betrayal and always pops the question into the mind of the reader 'Can we trust anyone?

And a March 2015 UN Security Council report on "Conflict-Related Sexual Violence," which assessed conflicts in 19 country settings, found that "a common point is that waves of conflict-related sexual violence take place against a backdrop of structural gender-based discrimination, including in formal and informal systems of law, and the exclusion of women from political life".

They wrote that the decision must be understood against the backdrop of Supreme Court decisions on both employment discrimination and sexual orientation discrimination.

The nationwide "March Against Sharia" took place against a backdrop of increased anti-Muslim rhetoric and discrimination.

John Payton, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., which filed a brief supporting the city, said the case, Ricci v. DeStefano, No. 07-1428, must be understood against the backdrop of what he described as pervasive racial discrimination in firefighting and the pitfalls of thinking that a test can capture the qualities needed for leadership in life-or-death situations.

It smells of discrimination.

"We must end all forms of discrimination.

Worse still are those of discrimination.

Laws against other types of discrimination followed.