Sentence examples for racial criterion from inspiring English sources

Interracial marriage and cultural assimilation often prevent the formation a precise definition of Chinese Indonesians in line with any simple racial criterion.

In practice the law mixes social and racial criteria, taking into account local particularities.

As John Charles Boger of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund told the Court the other day, it is as though Georgia still obeyed pre-Civil War laws setting racial criteria for executions.

"We did not want nor did we want to be perceived as making determinations on social or racial criteria," Mr. Haley said.

As part of the civil rights movement, the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 eliminated racial criteria and replaced country-by-country quotas with a system that awarded green cards based largely on family or employer sponsorship.

Roberts warned that judges shouldn't be too confident in their own ability "to distinguish good from harmful... uses of racial criteria," but Ford maintains that Roberts is carried away by his own bloodless abstractions.

But a 1996 federal court decision striking down racial criteria for another University of Maryland scholarship program for minorities forced their hand, explains Lasse Lindahl, chair of the biological sciences department and MARC director.

In the 1930s, the New Deal's Home Owners Loan Corporation HOLCLcreatedted, as Bradford Hunt noted, "color-coded maps of American cities that used racial criteria to categorize lending and insurance risks". These maps have now been grafted as historical layers onto a base map of the U.S. and are fully searchable.

The controversial ban on using racial criteria in college enrollment has already had a negative impact.

Supreme Court decisions upheld the use of racial criteria in the curfew order and the constitutionality of the military detention process.

In 2007, in response to a US Supreme Court decision prohibiting racial criteria for assigning students to public schools, CPS eliminated race and gender as determining factors in magnet school admissions.