verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
against
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Today, these communities have no autonomy but are isolated, marginalised and discriminated against .
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Was she discriminated against because she is a woman?
unfairly
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Ideally it should not unfairly discriminate or stereotype.
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The resolution stated that the death penalty unfairly discriminates against minorities.
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In the past many health authorities discriminated unfairly by not employing those who may have had domestic responsibilities.
■ NOUN
ability
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Sadly, commentators and writers in the mass circulation dailies sometimes lack the ability to discriminate .
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The ability to discriminate is admittedly a basic ingredient of survival.
basis
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Infants do not discriminate on the basis of age.
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They frequently discriminate on the basis of race, religion or national origin.
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The employer is only allowed to discriminate on the basis of personal merit and suitability for the job.
law
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Remember, though, divorce laws don't discriminate .
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Does the law discriminate in those cases between vices and unsoundness?
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Nationalist Sinhalese leaders passed a number of chauvinistic laws that discriminated against Tamils in the fields of language, education and employment.
people
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Employment training guidelines discriminate directly against older people .
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It was the job world that generated those long lists of qualifications that discriminated against people who did not have good educations.
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Any society, they argue, must discriminate against impaired people to safeguard its own general social health.
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Their obtrusive stir repels discriminating people .
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In addition there are a number of ways in which the social security system directly discriminates against older people .
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Children learn to discriminate between places and people very easily.
system
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The ability of speech recognition systems to discriminate words from acoustic information alone is not encouraging.
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A more efficient tax system would not discriminate between cash compensation and fringe benefits.
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In addition there are a number of ways in which the social security system directly discriminates against older people.
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The scores used by the computational systems discriminate between hypotheses in two ways.
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Second, other parts of the social security system actively discriminate against the unemployed.
woman
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Individual-oriented psychological methods, like experiments and questionnaires, often seem to discriminate against women .
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Both county and federal governments were taking tax dollars out of my pocket and using them to discriminate against other women .
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Rigorous shift patterns allegedly discriminated against women with children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A test is useful for discriminating those students who have reached a higher level from those at a lower level.
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The monkeys were easily able to discriminate between the different objects, according to their visual appearance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agencies and landlords are not legally allowed to discriminate on grounds of race but ways are invariably found around this.
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Barring a compelling reason, governments should not discriminate between classes of citizens.
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Both county and federal governments were taking tax dollars out of my pocket and using them to discriminate against other women.
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Ii also find it appalling that the commission should discriminate between farmers so blatantly.
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In addition there are a number of ways in which the social security system directly discriminates against older people.
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It also defies basic standards of fairness by discriminating against large numbers of minority students.
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It is, of course, necessary to check carefully and individually the size of type that a visually impaired pupil can discriminate .