noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
police brutality/harassment (= when the police hit or threaten people )
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He claims to have witnessed many instances of police brutality.
racial harassment (= threatening behaviour towards someone of another race )
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The court case increased public awareness of sexual and racial harassment in the workplace.
sexual harassment
subject sb to an ordeal/abuse/harassment
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Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
racial
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The question of sexuality further complicates racialized encounters, such as racial harassment and violence.
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The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
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Is not it time to have a specific crime of racial harassment , as I proposed in my 1985 Racial Harassment Bill?
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Mobilization became more difficult but community-based resistance against police violence, racial harassment , and other problems continued.
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A lot of racial abuse and harassment goes on.
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His family said he had been subjected to a campaign of racial harassment and death threats.
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Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people, were now happening to us.
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Only society itself can make the fundamental change that is required to make racial harassment a part of history.
■ VERB
complain
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Widows living alone were not the only interviewees to complain of harassment by drunken foreign sailors.
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Young people and ethnic minorities have repeatedly complained about police harassment .
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Some disenfranchised minority voters also complain of police harassment .
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Surely the time for action is when some one complains of harassment .
report
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That was more than the 324 reported incidents of anti-gay harassment and violence.
subject
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No one should be subjected to verbal harassment , just as no one should be threatened with physical violence.
suffer
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They have also suffered much officially approved harassment .
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Other female officers have testified that they also suffered harassment in the department.
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Both communities suffer continual harassment from a blatantly racist police force, they face discrimination in courts and in prison.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Other female officers have testified that they also suffered harassment in the department.
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Passive harassment became more and more active.
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Some do this for fun; some, to avoid harassment .
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The company has acknowledged that some incidents of harassment occurred, but denies allegations that it was widely tolerated.
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The controversial law will also bar hate speech and harassment .
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There were complaints by black youths of police harassment , the sus laws merely being used as an excuse for this.