positive discrimination

British  

noun

1. US equivalent: affirmative action.  the provision of special opportunities in employment, training, etc for a disadvantaged group, such as women, ethnic minorities, etc

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Example Sentences

But Mr Lau argued that section of the law was designed to permit "positive discrimination" and not "negative discrimination".

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Dr Richards, who is a physicist at Imperial College, also addressed potential criticism of the scheme; that it is positive discrimination for individuals who would not get funding on the merits of their research.

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Last month, the nation's highest court voted 6-3 to repeal affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, a decades-old measure in the United States.

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Initiatives to increase the numbers of women and people from ethnic minorities in the RAF led to illegal positive discrimination, an inquiry has found.

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The inquiry, conducted by the Ministry of Defence, found the pressure to meet those targets led to illegal, positive discrimination.

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