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discriminate - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • ground: Credit scoring does not discriminate on the grounds of sex, race, religion, disability or color.
  • basis: It is not unlawful to discriminate on the basis of the result of such tests.

Modifying Another Word

  • blatantly: Another family decided against court action in spite of being blatantly discriminated against in relation to enrollment in the local high school.

Preposition: against

  • humanist: Current practice plainly discriminates against humanists and all who conscientiously reject religious beliefs.
  • applicant: Don't discriminate against applicants, for example on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
  • employe: From 1 October 2006 it will be unlawful to discriminate against an employe on the basis of his/her age.
  • person: Additionally Open Source licenses mustn't discriminate against any person or group or restrict anyone from making use of the program.

Preposition: between

  • applicant: We cannot discriminate between two applicants who request the same information.

Used with adjective complement

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

Preposition: at

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

Modifying Another Word

  • indirectly: There was no evidence to suggest that the closures will directly or indirectly discriminate against DWP staff or customers.
  • unjustifiably: They must be based on sound science and must not arbitrarily or unjustifiably discriminate between trading partners.

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