"regional discrimination" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to discriminating against someone based on where they are from or the region they belong to. Example: "The company's hiring policies showed clear signs of regional discrimination as they only hired employees from a certain city, ignoring qualified candidates from other regions."
In the early 90s the BBC, sensitive to accusations of metrocentricity and eager to demonstrate value for money to licence payers all over the country, instigated a bit of positive regional discrimination and moved its programme departments out of London.
Kim Sang Woo, an MP close to the president, dismisses the idea of reforming campaign finance on the ground that it would "make criminals of everyone".Because parties are built around personal loyalties, rather than ideas, Korean politics also suffers from regional discrimination.
The President has described the Senate's rjection of Clement F. Haynesworth, Jr. & G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court, as acts of "regional discrimination" & has reached the conclusion that no Southerner on the federal bench who espouses the "philosophy of strict construction of the Constitution" could win approval in the Senate "as presently constituted".
The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance on two challenging listening tasks, talker and regional accent discrimination, and to assess variables that could have affected the outcomes.
The president of Erase Racism, V. Elaine Gross, said that the county legislation would be a model for a regional approach to combating discrimination.
Her concern about issues of poverty, child labour, regional violence, and gender discrimination comes through clearly as she takes us on a journey through the intimate workings of her day: to the local market, to the offices of Curious Minds, and eventually to her first weeks at the University of Ghana in Accra.
Our proteomics data, based on these eight protein spots, allowed accurate discrimination between regional fenugreek A and three other fenugreek samples B, C and D. These proteins are of significant interest, and thus warrant further characterization to more fully explore their potential therapeutic use.
"We call on Malaysian authorities to uphold their international human rights obligations without discrimination," says Matilda Bogner, regional representative of their southeast Asia office.
We then investigated whether regional activations underlying tactile shape discrimination depended on the reliability of visual shape.
In patients with phantom limb pain or complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), sensory discrimination training increases tactile acuity, normalises cortical reorganisation and decreases pain.
Of the sites that viewed it as qualitatively different, reasons given were its intra-familial and inter-generational nature; the implications for insurability and employability; the potential uses in deciding on paternity; and its regional or group implications, including discrimination on the basis of race.
