INEQUITY in a Sentence

Learn INEQUITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

24 example sentences for INEQUITY, such as:

1. The inequality of Birth was nothing to it.
2. People are concerned about social inequality.
3. There remain major inequalities of opportunity in the workplace.
4. The law has done little to prevent racial discrimination and inequality.
5. Inequalities of income would lead to even greater inequalities in access to health care.

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 Meanings and Examples of INEQUITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inequity
 n.  unfairness; lack of equity or abstract justice; disagreement with equitable principles
Classic Sentence:
1  As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
2  Connected with the conversation that had sprung up on the rights of women there were certain questions as to the inequality of rights in marriage improper to discuss before the ladies.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
3  When they rose from the table and the ladies had gone out, Pestsov did not follow them, but addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch, began to expound the chief ground of inequality.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
4  The inequality in marriage, in his opinion, lay in the fact that the infidelity of the wife and the infidelity of the husband are punished unequally, both by the law and by public opinion.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
5  Then it was he discovered that the form of Uncas vanished, and that he beheld only the dark outline of an inequality in the embankment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
6  The inequality of Birth was nothing to it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
7  This inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning between the two situations and the two men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
8  Let a commonwealth, then, be constituted in the country where a great equality is found or has been made; and, conversely, let a princedom be constituted where great inequality prevails.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
9  We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
10  I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the frozen ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  It seemed, however, to Edmond, who was hidden from his comrades by the inequalities of the ground, that at sixty paces from the harbor the marks ceased; nor did they terminate at any grotto.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
12  There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence:
1  In demanding equal pay for equal work, women protest the basic inequity of a system that gives greater financial rewards to men.
2  Central Florida has become the poster child for this issue, courtesy of the 23-game winning streak that has shone a light on the inequality in the sport.
3  New technologies offer lower margins than internet services, making it more important for startups to husband their cash; all this is before considering the nastier features of Bay Area: from clogged traffic to shocking inequality.
4  Little has changed, corruption scandals abound and inequality persists, even as Kenya grows richer.
5  People are concerned about social inequality.
6  Warren also allows that capitalist development may, in its early stages, result in increased social inequality.
7  The law has done little to prevent racial discrimination and inequality.
8  The demonstrators inspired thousands of allies to take to the streets to protest economic inequality and corporate greed.
9  Inequalities of income would lead to even greater inequalities in access to health care.
10  It can be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities when people define them as such.
11  There remain major inequalities of opportunity in the workplace.
12  This loya jirga is intended to legitimize the power sharing arrangement set up in Bonn and begin to iron out at least some of the inequalities in representation.