Sentence examples for proscribes discrimination from inspiring English sources
"It only proscribes discrimination on the basis of race or sex," Mr. Harper said, and the case will turn on the evidence of the claimants.
Although we are talking about business partners, not employees, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act clearly proscribes discrimination based on religion, but does not mention political beliefs, and, on a related note, federal law also prohibits discrimination based on marital status.
Central to the General Comment is the principle of non-discrimination: "...the Covenant [on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights] proscribes any discrimination in access to health care and underlying determinants of health... on the grounds of race, colour,.... health status... and civil, political, social or other status" (18).
As he said in a separate opinion for that ruling: "The Constitution proscribes government discrimination on the basis of race, and state-provided education is no exception".
This is reinforced by the special rapporteur: "Accordingly, international human rights law proscribes any discrimination in access to health care, and the underlying determinants of health, on the internationally prohibited grounds, including health status, which has the intention or effect of impairing the equal enjoyment of the right to health" (26).
He assured me that he is a "huge fan" of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and its subsequent amendments, which prohibit discrimination in housing, and will vigorously enforce laws proscribing redlining.
It was to avoid accusations of discrimination that the Sarkozy government originally wrote the bill as a security measure, proscribing anyone from wearing clothing "intended to hide the face".
Yet he supports permitting job discrimination against homosexuals, opposes letting them serve in the military, favors a constitutional amendment forbidding them to marry, and voted for an Idaho ballot measure that proscribes gay civil unions.
"Comprehensive" sex ed describes; abstinence education proscribes.
Estonia, for example, proscribes carrying a weapon while drunk.
