Sentence examples for immutable characteristic from inspiring English sources

In medical school, we were taught that although cancer comes in many forms, it has one immutable characteristic: it is composed of immature cells.

Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people share a common "immutable" characteristic because their sexual orientation is fundamental to who they are and they have indisputably been discriminated against.

Antonin Scalia wrote the lead opinion, declaring that "political affiliation is not an immutable characteristic, but may shift from one election to the next; and even within a given election, not all voters follow the party line.

In a 1973 sex-discrimination case (litigated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was then a lawyer for the A.C.L.U ., Justice William Brennan wrote that "sex, like race, is an immutable characteristic determined solely by the accident of birth".

With this momentous shift, America once again reaffirms its core values of equality and respect — values predicated upon a person's capabilities and demonstrated competence, not an immutable characteristic like gender.

Some care is called for here: Political ideology is not an immutable characteristic, and some people who called themselves conservative in 2010 might have called themselves moderate in 2008.

And these underlying and immutable characteristics shape a country's interests, instincts and habits.

Many of the legal arguments on behalf of those groups relied heavily on the idea that we were dealing with "immutable" characteristics of human beings.

Hate groups are generally classified as any group whose speech "maligns or demeans" an entire group of people, usually based on immutable characteristics.

Some might argue that the Civil Rights Act should be limited to discrimination based on immutable characteristics like race or national origin, not acts of volition.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of active hate groups, which it defines as groups having "beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics," more than doubled from 457 in 1999 to 1018 in 2011.