Word Finder - discriminate

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To make distinctions.

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(construed with against) To make decisions based on prejudice.

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The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.

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To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.

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Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

If she was qualified, why should he discriminate against his daughter?

It is unethical to discriminate against people because of their culture or gender.

We do not discriminate against anybody on any grounds, nor should we.

Oh, I did not discriminate in the beginning.

Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.

If the phrase be understood to mean the realization of some capacities of the self it does not appear to discriminate sufficiently between the good and bad capacities; while the realization under present conditions of all the capacities of a self is impossible.

The scientific importance of this step is to be measured by the degree of insight which it affords or promises into the molecular constitution of real bodies by the suggestion of experiments by which we may discriminate between rival molecular theories.

Neither is it possible to discriminate with certainty the sketches intended for the Sforza monument from others which Leonardo may have done in view of another and later commission for an equestrian statue, namely, that in honour of Ludovico's great enemy, Gian Giacomo Trivulzio.

As a teacher he was one of the first to discriminate between the various strata in rabbinic records; to him was due the revival of interest in the older Midrash and in the Palestinian Talmud, interest in which had been weak for some centuries before his time.

Upon what grounds, therefore, shall we discriminate between the justice of punishing him for what he was at a previous period in his life and the injustice of forgiving him because of what he is in the present?

It is easy for the student now to show the inadequacy of his sources, and his failure here or there to discriminate between fact and fable.

The direct results of a discriminate computer network attack on combatants will not inflict more suffering.

It is illegal to discriminate, and while of course you want to maintain good working relationships, what's fair for some needs to apply to everyone in your work place.

Be aware that vinegar does not discriminate between good and "bad" plants.

From the imperial point of view the sky bore the name of Ti, " ruler," or Shang Ti, " supreme ruler " (emperor); and later commentators readily took advantage of this to discriminate between the visible expanse and the indwelling spirit, producing a kind of Theism.

Save in the German colony the official returns do not discriminate between the nationality of the white inhabitants.

The only difference is in the manner in which this quantity H depends on the law of the molecular forces and the law of density near the surface of the fluid, and as these laws are unknown to us we cannot obtain any test to discriminate between the two theories.

We find in his theory no satisfactory attempt to discriminate between the pleasure aimed at by the altruist and the immediate pleasure of egoistic action.

Indeed the more favourable the secular authorities were to the Reformation the less need was there to discriminate between civil and ecclesiastical power, and to define strictly how the latter should be exercised.

He is living proof that breast cancer does not discriminate and can affect men as well as women.

Now, owing to the necessary inexactness of measurement, it is impossible to discriminate directly whether any kind of continuous physical quantity possesses the compactness of the series of rationals or the continuity of the series of real numbers.

We may, however, discriminate (i.) the Palestinian and (ii.) the Hellenistic literature of the Old Testament, though even this distinction is open to serious objections.

Even before the fall of Delhi, Canning had been adversely criticized - "Clemency Canning" he was scornfully called - for announcing his intention to discriminate between the guilt of various classes of mutineers.

Management It is unlawful for a person managing any premises to discriminate against disabled people occupying those premises.

Some states have already enacted breastfeeding legislation making it illegal to discriminate against a nursing mother.

Crystal meth effects do not discriminate.

The acid finds considerable use in organic chemistry, being employed to discriminate between the different types of alcohols and of amines, and also in the production of diazo, azo and diazo-amino compounds.

They discriminate between the red or erythro-salts, which are well crystallized, very explosive and unstable compounds, and which regenerate the colourless nitrolic acid on the addition of dilute mineral acids, and the leuco-salts, which are colourless salts obtained by warming the erythro-salts or by exposing them to direct sunlight.

So close indeed is the similarity that many monkeys, apes and human beings have an apparently instinctive fear of all snakes and do not discriminate between poisonous and non-poisonous forms. Hence it may be that innocuous snakes are in many instances sufficiently protected by their likeness in shape to poisonous species that close and exact resemblance in colour to particular species is superfluous.

It is to be regretted that the catalogue does not discriminate among the prohibited works according to the motive of their condemnation and the danger ascribed to reading them.

With our present knowledge it is impossible to discriminate between variation that may or that may not be the material for the differentiation of species by scrutinizing either magnitude or probable causation.

But the common people did not discriminate, and believed that when they bought an Indulgence they were purchasing pardon from sin; and Luther placed himself in the position of the ordinary Christian uninstructed in the niceties of theological distinctions.

In 1616 the Dutch began to compete with the English at Surat, and their piracies against native vessels led to the Mogul governor seizing English warehouses; but soon the native authorities learnt to discriminate between the different European nations, and the unscrupulous methods of the Dutch cast them into disfavour.

Of those species that frequent the North Atlantic, the common StormPetrel, Procellaria pelagica, a little bird which has to the ordinary eye rather the look of a Swift or Swallow, is the "Mother Carey's chicken" of sailors, and is widely believed to be the harbinger of bad weather; but seamen hardly discriminate between this and others nearly resembling it in appearance, such as Leach's or the Fork-tailed Petrel, Cymochorea leucorrhoa, a rather larger but less common bird, and Wilson's Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, the type of the Family Oceanitidae mentioned above, which is more common on the American side.

On the whole, the occurrence of Bacteria in Palaeozoic times - so probable a priori - may be taken as established, though the attempt to discriminate species among them is probably futile.

The 0900h cortisol after 48 hours is considered to be the best parameter to use to discriminate between Cushing's disease and ectopic ACTH.

There was no evidence to suggest that the closures will directly or indirectly discriminate against DWP staff or customers.

They must be based on sound science and must not arbitrarily or unjustifiably discriminate between trading partners.

This is unlike approaches such as discriminatively trained Gaussian mixture models or other discriminative classifiers that discriminate at the frame-level only.

Its design also flaunts more pronounced cubist angles to discriminate it from Samsung's army of black sliders.

Perpetrators of these crimes, which can bring its victims to financial and personal ruin, do not discriminate by nationality; bank fraud and identity theft occur all over the globe.

The distinctive flavorings of pomegranate sauces, pepper spreads, walnut flour, ground pistachios and mint command attention from even the most discriminate diner.

Most Great Pyrenees rescue organizations do not discriminate against dogs that are Pyrenees mixes.

Learn to discriminate between the best lending solutions and savings programs to suit your needs and maximize your spending and saving power.

This is an important part of audiometry, since much of a child's learning depends on the ability to discriminate speech.

However, development tests may help to discriminate between normal variations in development among children and early signs of a developmental problem.

Infants are able to discriminate parental voices from those of strangers and are more responsive to familiar voices.

Financial discrimination - Mortgage lenders and insurance companies can not discriminate by refusing to sell their loans and policies to non-white buyers or by charging higher rates in non-white areas.

It is illegal for employers to discriminate against employees who choose to take this time off.

The company does not discriminate against items purchased with a coupon code.