Sentence examples for basis of class from inspiring English sources

The radical Left is used to fighting for justice for those presently living on the basis of class or race or gender or membership of a threatened minority.

In Cameron's Britain, 85 workers compete for every job, with the result that employers have more scope for discriminating on the basis of class background.

Throughout the film, black townspeople are victimized by legal chicanery and outright prejudice yet within the community itself, there's discrimination on the basis of class and skin tone.

Morrison appealed the committee's decision and, in a letter, reminded its members that, in the nineteen-fifties, hospital committees had often determined whether women merited getting abortions on the basis of "class, race and other non-medical issues".

This not only denies the experiences of those who face racism, but also makes solidarity with those exploited on the basis of class, and discriminated in terms of gender and sexuality more difficult.

Often we prescribe off-label on the basis of "class extension," which involves deciding that if one member of a drug family is F.D.A.-approved for a certain disorder, it's safe to presume that other members of the same chemical family will work as well.

Consumer-protection law, often the basis of class-action suits, varies too much from state to state, and is often vague.Some exceptions exist: securities-law class actions, for instance, are dealt with at the federal level.

Yet Mr van der Hoeven continued to assert for much of 2002 that it was on course for double-digit profit growth promises that may now form the basis of class-action lawsuits.The $500m overstatement is due primarily to Ahold's US Foodservice unit, which supplies food to schools, hospitals and restaurants—although there are also issues over its Disco subsidiary in Argentina and several other units.

On the basis of average class sizes of 30 and two classes per year, we estimate that parents of 240 children in each school will be invited to complete screening questionnaires.

The most influential of such schemes is the Marxist typology, which classifies types of rule on the basis of economic class divisions and defines the ruling class as that which controls the means of production in the state.

The areas of the land use classes were adjusted on the basis of the class accuracies as described in the section "Confidence Intervals and Area Adjustment".