Sentence examples for pervasive discrimination from inspiring English sources

The LGBT community faces pervasive discrimination in Kazakhstan.

Even Oscar-winning Hollywood stars suffer under this pervasive discrimination.

Soviet Jews encountered pervasive discrimination, which is one reason so many left.

Among the followers of the major Abrahamic faiths, however, Muslims have faced the most pervasive discrimination in the American Services.

This black Southern woman protected my white Northern mother from the pervasive discrimination that people who are disabled experience.

But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women's low social standing have frustrated these women's rise out of poverty and hunger".

Shelby County's suit contends that the VRA is no longer appropriate: when Congress reauthorised the act for 25 years in 2006, it failed to show the existence of "pervasive voting discrimination", "electoral gamesmanship" and "widespread intentional discrimination on the basis of race".

The Court held that Section 5 constituted a valid use of Congress's power to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment, reasoning that "exceptional circumstances" of pervasive racial discrimination, combined with the inadequacy of case-by-case litigation in ending that discrimination, justified the preclearance requirement.

Members of Congress can either endorse the status quo in which women and families suffer due to pervasive wage discrimination reminiscent of the Mad Men-era, or they can move to stop gender discrimination by advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Assessing just how pervasive age discrimination is in the job market is difficult.

The record included some 600 accounts of government actions showing a history of "pervasive, invidious discrimination against the disabled," Mr. Waxman said.