social injustice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandinjustice
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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injustice
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
(an example of) a situation in which there is no fairness ...
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(Definition ofsocialandinjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsocial injustice
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However, do we really want to exclude those who have been disadvantaged bysocialinjusticefrom the moral community?
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Attributing causality to communication is a convenient way to elide issues of control orsocialinjustice.
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This has been not only a waste of human capital, but represents an economic nonsense and asocialinjustice.
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Drug use could be reduced considerably by a social order that eliminates the causes ofsocialinjustice.
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They signify a pattern of overwhelmingsocialinjusticethat persists without interference from those oversight bodies so essential to democratic checks and balances.
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Their withdrawal, even on a temporary basis, is a matter ofsocialinjustice.
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Is it a social democratic government, modernising public services, addressing problems of social exclusion,socialinjusticeand elitism?
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Wisdom entails appropriate feeling, even if this feeling is one of anger wheresocialinjusticeis concerned.
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If our reasoning is correct, then we do not need to attack the slogan in order to undermine the levelling down objection in cases involvingsocialinjustice.
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Zafzaf's protagonist does not give lectures on women's oppression orsocialinjusticein his country.
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Socialinjusticestill needs to be denounced and fought.
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Barry's solution avoids the counter-intuitive nature of the extreme solution, while at the same time chipping away atsocialinjustice.
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The redressing ofsocialinjusticemust be deferred rather than refused; and the power to redress these grievances has to be displaced away from any particular social class.
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He specifically referred to the 20 million unemployed, because they are indeed a constant reminder of the biggestsocialinjusticeof all.
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Instead, they concentrate on more practical points: economic damage, unrealistic targets and possiblesocialinjustice.
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It is an act ofsocialinjustice.
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To me this issocialinjustice.
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