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  • noun Plural form of inequity.

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Examples

  • Iraq's minority Terpin (ph), though, say they've decided to go on a hunger strike to protest what they call inequities in the process.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2004 2004

  • Ironically he then complains that the grossest violator in fueling funding inequities is Title I funding (i.e. federal) which is apportioned not on a strict per capita basis but rather on how much was spent previously by the state (this same perversion occurs with Medicaid).

    Archive 2008-01-01 xtra 2008

  • Ironically he then complains that the grossest violator in fueling funding inequities is Title I funding (i.e. federal) which is apportioned not on a strict per capita basis but rather on how much was spent previously by the state (this same perversion occurs with Medicaid).

    Local Control Destroying U.S. Schools? xtra 2008

  • The only place we did differ on the subject is that I think some people should be cut a break for certain inequities established by circumstances of birth (socio-economic mostly) – because we are very much the cultural products of our environments.

    Think Progress » ABA On Bush Nominee: ‘Insulated,’ ‘Very Stubborn,’ and ‘Sanctimonious’ 2006

  • Aggregate inequalities, depending on how and why they came about, need not also be inequities, but anyone who denies the persistence of real inequities is blind, stupid, or getting a paycheck.

    You Say Tomato… 2006

  • Recently, because of certain inequities in the law, intensive studies have been made to determine the best means of modernizing it, with particular attention to the field of public performance rights.

    Jukebox Piracy 1969

  • Recently, because of certain inequities in the law, intensive studies have been made to determine the best means of modernizing it, with particular attention to the field of public performance rights.

    Jukebox Piracy 1962

  • What specific strategies are being devised to address the long-term inequities that have contributed to poverty and social injustice within our society?

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • But I also think that the inequities are the result of class and poverty.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • But I also think that the inequities are the result of class and poverty.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

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