Sentence examples for disparate effect from inspiring English sources

The argument here is not so much that there's invidious segregation and discrimination, but that the policies and practices and the willful ignorance of the disparities that characterize our public schools still have this racially disparate effect.

The tests have also had a disparate effect on Hispanics and women, but not as markedly.

The disparate effect on minority women has a host of causes, according to landlords, housing lawyers and Mr. Desmond's research, which he conducted for his doctoral dissertation.

They contend that the tests will continue to have a disparate effect on poor and minority students because there are fewer qualified teachers and successful schools in low-income neighborhoods.

She told a panel of three judges that Merrill's practice of encouraging brokers to form teams and letting departing brokers hand off customers to other team members had a disparate effect on black brokers.

The commission has asserted that rejections based on aspects of applicant's credit histories, like falling behind on bill-paying, have a disparate effect on black applicants without being directly relevant to their future job performance.

Adding up all these disparate effects has proved a guessing game for economists.

As he visits nine states over six days, Mr. Bush will pursue a cradle-to-grave comparison of what he believes to be the disparate effects of his policies and Mr. Gore's.

Among other things, she tested drugs that appeared to thwart the effects of heroin and cocaine, and devised ways to study what were believed to be the greatly disparate effects of snorting cocaine versus smoking it in the form of crack.

In Ricci, the Supreme Court wrestled with what it saw as a conflict between disparate treatment and disparate effect that is, white firefighters were deprived of the opportunity to be promoted, thus suffering from intentional discrimination, in order to avoid disparate effects on minority firefighters who did not score as highly.

How did two such similar earthquakes have such disparate effects?