DISCRIMINATION in a Sentence

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For DISCRIMINATION, below is one of 52 sentences:
I think that women doing big things in business is inspirational to others because it helps to eliminate role discrimination.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCRIMINATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discrimination
 n.  the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished
 n.  unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
Classic Sentence:
1  Whereas you"--he laughed again--"you have no instinct about people, no discrimination between the cheap and the great.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
3  If the men were taken back "without discrimination," he would lose his present place.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
4  The choice of servants is of no little importance to a prince, and they are good or not according to the discrimination of the prince.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
5  And the condition of the Negro is ever the excuse for further discrimination.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
7  I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  I do not wish to leave out an important branch of this subject, for it is a danger from which princes are with difficulty preserved, unless they are very careful and discriminating.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
10  Such misdemeanors needed discriminating treatment, firm but reformatory, with no hint of injustice, and full proof of guilt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
12  The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
14  And yet even here we may discriminate.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
15  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.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  The government is waging a campaign against sex discrimination in industry.
17  The report on sexual discrimination at work shows that some of the worst offenders are women.
18  Many disabled people suffer discrimination at work.
19  I think that women doing big things in business is inspirational to others because it helps to eliminate role discrimination.
20  Treating people differently based on a certain characteristic is called discrimination.
21  A recent study showed that up to two million people in France now live in areas blighted by social exclusion, domestic violence and racial discrimination.
22  In that late summer of 1957, they helped to set all of us, white and black alike, free from the dark shackles of segregation and discrimination.
23  A superb interpreter of Picasso, she was sufficiently discriminating to judge the most complex works of modern art.
24  A wine taster must have a discriminating palate and a keen olfactory sense, for a good wine appeals both to the taste buds and to the nose.
25  He is incapable of discriminating between a good idea and a terrible one.
26  You should not discriminate against minorities.
27  The computer program was unable to discriminate between letters and numbers.
28  Under federal law, it is illegal to discriminate against minorities and women.
29  It's illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sex.
30  A number of features discriminate this species from others.