Sentence examples for differences in opportunity from inspiring English sources

In theory, this has been the case ever since devolution to Wales and Scotland, but with a wider range of political views represented in our parliaments and councils those differences now amount to fundamental differences in opportunity.

At first sight of the results in this study, one might thus be inclined to appreciate that TIMSS achievement seems insensitive to differences in opportunity to learn within countries, based on current indicators.

Disparities in the effectiveness of media campaigns between SES groups may occur at any of three stages: differences in meaningful exposure, differences in motivational response, or differences in opportunity to sustain long-term cessation.

We show that agricultural subsidy spending can be reduced in a Pareto efficient way and simultaneously improve the total stimulation potential of biofuel policies, when schemes: 1) are production based instead of land based; 2) accommodate differences in opportunity costs, and 3) target sites where subsidies for conventional agricultural land-use types are high.

This may be caused, for example, by differences in opportunity cost of time and marginal price/benefits of information search for prices [ 34].

Different professionals may also have qualitatively different views on clients, leading to "unequal encounters" and differences in opportunities for rehabilitation [ 26].

There are major differences in opportunities for men and women, there is disdain of homosexuality and American black culture is simultaneously appropriated and disliked.

This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities persist from one generation to the next.

We assume that the tendency of both forms of vocational education and training is that differences in opportunities for progression between young males and females are more marked in the case of school leavers with a lower secondary school-leaving certificate than for those with an intermediate secondary school-leaving certificate (hypothesis 1c).

Yet the digital divide -- differences in opportunities for people who have access to computers, mobile technology and the Internet and those who do not -- is still creating an uneven playing field in the job market.

Missing from much of the debate on achieving greater diversity at the top of American business is any discussion of the subtle differences in opportunities afforded to men and to women.