Sentence examples for imposed on minorities from inspiring English sources

He has gone from thinking of segregation as "almost entirely imposed on minorities" to believing there is "more variation and complexity among different groups, and even different social classes among groups".

After the Supreme Court effectively suspended the death penalty in 1972, arguing that the punishment was unconstitutional in part because it was disproportionately imposed on "minorities whose numbers are few, who are outcasts of society, and who are unpopular," Louisiana, like thirty-four other states, rewrote its statute.

Maybe because our society realizes that a cost was -- and is -- imposed on minorities that makes economic mobility difficult.

These are de facto dual-class shares in disguise which may even be imposed on minority shareholders.

He accused the two oil giants of violating the sanctions imposed on the white minority Government of Rhodesia after its unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965.

"Imagine the weakness" of a climate change deal imposed on an unhappy minority, he said (rightly).Supporters of the Lisbon treaty insist that its institutional changes will give the EU new strength to cope with a tricky new world.

Will, like others who reflect the claims of the 1%, argues that "burdens imposed on the wealthy minority [such as progressive taxation] can injure the majority by impairing economic incentives, thereby suppressing growth".

Judging from letters to newspapers and interviews with people on the street, Broadman's offer--the first judicial use of the new contraceptive technology that some people fear may be imposed on poor and minority women--has popular support in this southern San Joaquin Valley farming community.

The one critical "exception" to the principle of judicial restraint, Kurland explained, is when "the legislature imposes on... minorities in so fundamental a fashion as to necessitate invoking the safeguards of the Constitution".

If a majority of one resolves a vote, then they are imposing on the minority but for one.

Today, there are many who proclaim false peace, seeking to glance over the wounds imposed on racial and sexual minorities, immigrants, women, and working people in general.