Sentence examples for number of discrimination from inspiring English sources

The number of discrimination cases filed by city employees in New York has risen even as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has adopted a far less adversarial tone than his predecessor did in dealing with the city's vast work force.

"In a small number of discrimination cases where the breaches are very serious or deliberate – or where the employer refuses to co-operate and take action to resolve the matter – the Fair Work Ombudsman can initiate litigation action in the courts," a spokesman told Guardian Australia.

Similarly, complaints by minorities who feel they have been denied promotions or raises because of their race have grown by more than 50percentt since 1990, leading commission officials to quadruple the number of discrimination lawsuits filed against companies in the last four years.

Yet, some data can point us in the right direction – like looking at the number of interracial friendships (15% of whites say they have a lot of friends of different races), and the number of interracial marriages (at 15% as well), and the number of discrimination suits at entertainment venues.

But Michael A. Cardozo, who as the city's corporation counsel represents the Bloomberg administration in legal disputes, argued that the number of discrimination complaints was relatively small — each year, about 100 of 280,000 New York City employees file lawsuits against city agencies alleging discrimination in the workplace.

At the Civil Rights Division, he has pursued a record number of discrimination or brutality claims against local police and sheriff's departments, challenged voter identification requirements in South Carolina and Texas, reached the three largest residential fair-lending settlements in history and presided over more new voting rights litigation than in any previous year.

The selection of items solely on the basis that they are highly consistent with each other results in a discriminative instrument that makes only 56% of the possible number of discriminations.

Enacted in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibited a number of discriminations against those with disabilities, thereby forcing all retailers to make accommodations for the blind (and others) inside their stores.

All animals completed the same number of discriminations.

Note that each day, all sheep performed the same number of discriminations; the number of sets of discriminations conducted each day varied only because of the weather.

The number of discriminations taken to reach criterion in the IDS was significantly fewer than for the EDS (P<0.001).