Sentence examples for persistent legacies from inspiring English sources

The persistent legacies of redlining, housing discrimination, and wage disparity conspired to produce segregation without Jim Crow — maintaining all the familiar elements of the past in an updated operating system.

Many live far from centres of work, a persistent legacy of apartheid.

"Minorities and women confront those same barriers; and yet those obstacles stand high atop a persistent legacy of discrimination in the capital markets, industry, advertising and community -- and prior F.C.C. policies, which worsened the effects of discrimination".

A persistent legacy of baby-boom pop culture has been the sarcastic attitude embodied by the early days of "Saturday Night Live": shockingly wicked derision that is at once smart and goofy.

This is the only way to address the two lasting legacies of this crisis – the serious loss of competitiveness in many of our Member States, and persistent unemployment, with all its social consequences.

Since these institutions were persistent, the legacy of past misgovernment continued to hold down incomes.

This is particularly important to confirm the persistent epigenetic legacy of preterm birth identified in this report.

Several legacy persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs and DDE were also investigated.

Kanujo says the reason why many Indian corporations are eagerly embracing the Intranets is because of the widespread and persistent use of legacy systems and the high cost of a phone call.

An array of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are potential endocrine disrupters and can play an important role in the risk of BC.

Some scientists attribute the recent sea ice growth in the Ross Sea to the persistent ozone hole, a legacy of the human use of chlorofluorocarbons that cools the upper atmosphere over the continent, increasing the temperature difference with the lower atmosphere and equator, and over the last 30 years has delivered significantly brisker westerly winds in the summer and autumn.