Sentence examples for diminish black from inspiring English sources

Simple political interest — not raving negrophobic bigotry — has too often been enough to inspire efforts to diminish black turnout.

He was having no truck with the "facetious and nonsensical argument" that disallowing slang would diminish black culture.

On the other, it seems to diminish black sports achievement, making it a matter of biology rather than of training, drive and heart.

(One of the most visible delegations at the march was from North Carolina, which has just passed a law that will likely diminish black voting; the state N.A.A.C.P. has been organizing "Moral Monday" demonstrations in protest of it for months).

Because there are so many messages in our media, and unfortunately coming out of the mouths of politics, that diminish black women.

Apart from his perception that the change could diminish blacks' influence, Mr. Gelobter, a 38-year-old professor of environmental policy at Rutgers University, said that claiming a multiracial identity would link him to a bitter, freighted history of privilege for blacks who could cite some white lineage.

This morning after Ted left, I blest his diminishing black figure, turned to chanting verses and got magnificent sense of power: learned the brief "call for the robin redbreast and the wren".

The commodification of deaths via souvenirs and trophies brings us full circle, diminishing black lives even after they've been stolen and using our pain as a weapon.

The fourth grade failure syndrome refers to a bias in schools (e.g., cultural insensitivity, disproportionately harsh discipline, lowered teacher expectations, tracking black students into special education or remedial classes) that has the cumulative effect of diminishing black students' (especially boys') enthusiasm and motivation for school.

In the mid follicular phase, p27 staining was restricted to the nuclei (white arrow, panel B), but during the luteal phase, when the influence of estrogens is accompanied by progesterone, the nuclear p27 diminished (black arrow, panel C), and mature and aged epithelial cells showed surface p27 expression, similar to that in all types of muscle fibers.

Appealing to white prejudice is clearly a game of diminishing returns; black, hispanic and Asian voting blocs are vastly more important now than they were in 1968.