Sentence examples for fighting discriminatory from inspiring English sources

Its initial focus was fighting discriminatory gerrymandering that had been securing elections for Protestant unionists.

The Justice Department has been fighting discriminatory voter ID requirements and other ballot-blocking measures around the country, with some success.

"We are talking about the crosshairs of the most hot-button issue in the country at this point: black lives matter and police brutality," says Mark Winsthe-Griffith, thexecutiveve director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, an arm of Communities for United Police Reform, a group fighting "discriminatory policing" practices in New York City.

We [at the NAACP LDF] have been fighting a racially discriminatory photo ID law in Texas since 2011, and we've been successful every step of the way.

Families are fighting back against discriminatory pit bull bans, pit bull lovers have marched on Washington and even President Barack Obama has come out against breed-specific legislation.

There are many steps that America needs to take to improve voter participation, from the creation of an election day holiday to creating systems for digital voting to reducing social and economic barriers to voting to fighting against discriminatory voter ID laws.

"Buy local" programmes, with their obvious benefits to fighting climate change, are generally considered discriminatory and trade distorting under free trade doctrine.

Even when progress has been made toward equality for all human beings, many resist this, fighting strongly to hold on to often discriminatory value systems.

He then talked in some detail about fighting a lawsuit that accused New York City of using discriminatory tests to screen candidates for the Fire Department.

She used her position to campaign against discriminatory clauses of the Irish constitution, fighting on behalf of women, who were effectively treated as second-class citizens; homosexuals, whose actions were deemed criminal; and for freer access to contraceptives, which could not be sold without prescription in Ireland until 1985.

With timely help from an unexpected source -- the Bush administration -- Americans who have long wanted to overhaul the government's discriminatory and wasteful farm programs suddenly have a fighting chance to succeed.