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- noun Plural form of
inequality .
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Examples
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Republican Sen. Mike Doherty, who has been one of the most vigorous critics of the state's method of funding schools, said his party members needed to start holding town-hall meetings to wake people up to what he described as the inequalities of the system.
Court Orders More Funding For N.J.Schools Lisa Fleisher 2011
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I urge you to call your state legislators today and tell them you reject these cuts as a stopgap solution to long-term inequalities that women face.
K. Sujata: Government Budgets vs. Reality for Women and Girls K. Sujata 2011
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The foreground of our practical inequalities is for us to assess the over-determined equality in theory (the practice of reversing such inequalities).
Equality and the Liberal Democrats… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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I urge you to call your state legislators today and tell them you reject these cuts as a stopgap solution to long-term inequalities that women face.
K. Sujata: Government Budgets vs. Reality for Women and Girls K. Sujata 2011
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The film shows his young caring and human soul, but by the end of the film you get a sense of what Ernesto will turn into and how his mind is affected by certain inequalities this world offered (such as his trip to the mines, seeing the high amount of poverty in South America, and how the lepers were treated).
New Photos of Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Obviously, out of that plan, as time went on, there was bound to arise certain inequalities and difficulties and problems.
Empire Trade 1934
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"This resulted in the expectation, by some residents and stakeholders, that capital of culture [status] would single-handedly redress acute long-term inequalities between Liverpool and other UK cities, from unemployment to low income and poor health."
Culture | guardian.co.uk Helen Carter 2010
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However, the Third World feminism politics that often focuses on theenvironmentas one of the many reasons for their inequalities, is often forgotten in these types of debates, arguably because it is too close to hard-core and ‘masculine’ types of politics that many don’t want to be represented as coming ‘natural’ to women.
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However, right after the children, the principle victim of this intergenerational reproduction of the inequalities is the economy.
Rabah Ghezali: What American Dream? Why the Social Elevator Stalls Rabah Ghezali 2010
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If quantum measurements appear random to us simply because we do not know the values of these hidden variables, experimental measurements should obey certain inequalities.
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