Sentence examples for maintain unequal from inspiring English sources

In keeping with an accusation from unions and lawyers that the scheme almost went out of its way to maintain unequal pay, it also included a three-year payment protection for men who lost out on bonuses, something which the Court of Session later ruled as discriminatory.

PCs were computed separately for each species and patch using a covariance matrix in order to maintain unequal variation of the coordinates.

"A winning strategy depends on maintaining unequal [military] strength, and we must not take that for granted," he said.

Violence against women is not only a manifestation of sex inequality, but also serves to maintain this unequal balance of power.

Arrays of satDNA are maintained by unequal exchange and intrastrand exchange [73] and unequal crossing over accounts for the alterations in copy numbers of satellite monomers [44].

(In much the same way, Goodyear discriminated against Lilly Ledbetter by maintaining her unequal pay for years, not merely the first time the company underpaid her).

According to sequential PM policy, a unit is preventively maintained at unequal time intervals under the sequential PM policy.

Concerted evolution is generally maintained by unequal crossover, intergenic gene conversion or other illegitimate recombination mechanisms [ 1, 2].

"Gender-based violence" is also used in a more inclusive sense of referring to violence that is in some direct way concerned with expressing and maintaining the unequal power relations of oppressive gender orders.

In addition President Obama made no mention of how race has been used to create and maintain separate and unequal segments of our society, segments that seem incomprehensibly alien to mainstream "middle-class" Americans".

It has absorbed the arguments put forward in "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, who maintain that in very unequal societies everyone's health suffers, but especially that of those at the bottom.