discriminatory policy

collocation in English

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discriminatory
adjective
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/dɪˈskrɪm.ɪ.nə.tər.i/us
/dɪˈskrɪm.ə.nə.tɔːr.i/
treating a person or group differently from and usually worse than other people, because of their race, gender, ...
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policy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us
/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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The fact that there were more women than men in the population set a limit to anydiscriminatorypolicy.
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As might be expected, the implementation of such adiscriminatorypolicyalso drew rebukes from the outside world.
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In the light of those figures, serious ethical questions would be raised by any decision not to change the existingdiscriminatorypolicy.
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It would not have been adiscriminatorypolicy.
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They are now exercising a verydiscriminatorypolicy.
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I agree with his general point, especially his idea of a morediscriminatorypolicy, possibly tailored according to region and city.
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Adiscriminatorypolicyhas been pursued against the public sector industries but not against the civil servants.
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I do not quarrel with that, but would it not be a helpful thing to cease thisdiscriminatorypolicy?
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Surely we do not want to pursue adiscriminatorypolicy.
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Thisdiscriminatorypolicywas combined with a selective form of price control.
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We have therefore two main objects in adiscriminatorypolicy.
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The way one recruits is at the heart of alldiscriminatorypolicy.
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There is no intention on our part to return to adiscriminatorypolicy.
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We plead guilty to having adiscriminatorypolicy.
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Are they to cut imports from us, or pursue adiscriminatorypolicy?
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A morediscriminatorypolicyin terms of need is appropriate but it is a much more complex problem than that.
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It suggested adiscriminatorypolicyof preventing people of different cultures from taking part in cultural activities in our capital city.
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The other object of adiscriminatorypolicymust be to develop methods of saving imports, particularly dollar imparts, by improving methods of use, by import substitution and by material conservation.
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Regional policy is adiscriminatorypolicy, and any addition to the assisted areas automatically erodes the preferences enjoyed by the existing such areas.
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