Sentence examples for overwhelming discrimination from inspiring English sources
Free blacks often faced overwhelming discrimination and local segregation laws, but until a few years before the war, they were understood to have basic, if often highly circumscribed, rights.
The problems confronting the Red Cross were too overwhelming for careful discrimination to be made.
So if Americans overwhelming support employment discrimination laws protecting the LGBT community, why have we not yet passed those protections on a federal level?
The Sentencing Project compiled a report (pdf) of numerous studies into racial disparity in sentencing spanning a 20-year period and found overwhelming evidence of racial discrimination against minority defendants.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
Dr. Steven E. Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said it was impossible to justify insurance discrimination when an overwhelming body of scientific evidence showed that "mental illnesses represent real diseases of the brain".
Since Haiti became independent two centuries ago, Haitian blacks should be the most prosperous blacks in the hemisphere and American blacks the poorest, if discrimination is the overwhelming factor, but in fact the direct opposite is the case.
Despite recent interest in these nonparametric methods, the overwhelming majority of applications of discrimination and classification still rely on various parametric assumptions.
Despite students' concerns that the results of genetic tests may be used for other purposes without consent (71%) or lead to discrimination (78%), an overwhelming number of students were in favor of pharmacogenetic testing (90%).
The overwhelming, far-reaching influence of sexism and discrimination has done more than blatantly oppress women -- it's been operating on basic psychological levels to make us destroy ourselves, starting with severing our connections to each other.
Even today sports such as ice hockey, tennis, skiing and lacrosse are overwhelming white, not as a result of official discrimination but because of history and culture.
