Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a disparate manner; unequally.
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- adverb To act or do in a
disparate manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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These companies realize that in order to get the best leverage out of these environments, they cannot manage them each disparately.
The Cloud: Have It Your Way Pete Privateer 2010
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He said the suit presented "the unusual case where there is already a well-developed public record of Gupta being treated substantially disparately from 28 essentially identical defendants, with not even a hint from the SEC...as to why this should be so."
Focus on Goldman Ex-Director Michael Rothfeld 2011
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As the ranks of entry-level attorneys became increasingly more diverse, and women represent over 50% of the attorneys in the "pipeline" of new graduates, the refusal to consider such requests for change has disparately impacted women and minority attorneys.
Finding Balance 2009
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These companies realize that in order to get the best leverage out of these environments, they cannot manage them each disparately.
The Cloud: Have It Your Way Pete Privateer 2010
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Prominent programs' frustrations festered in the 1970s, when the NCAA was a motley collection of disparately sized athletic programs with equal voting rights and shared television revenues.
Enough Already With the Little Guy Rachel Bachman 2011
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Interestingly, Carolyn Elefant suggests in this post at the Legal Blog Watch that as a result, the institutionalized "billable hour" may in fact disparately impact women lawyers who have children:
Finding Balance 2009
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The reason that black people were disparately harmed is because more black people lived in the area.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited 2010
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The reason that black people were disparately harmed is because more black people lived in the area.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited 2010
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I wonder whether some enterprising lawyers might bring a class action suit against law firms, arguing that the billable hour disparately impacts women with families -- and thus, violates Title VII.
Finding Balance 2009
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"Here, by contrast, we have the unusual case where there is already a well-developed public record of Gupta being treated substantially disparately from 28 essentially identical defendants, with not even a hint from the SEC, even in their instant papers, as to why this should be so."
Suit Versus SEC Clears a Hurdle Chad Bray 2011
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