Word: unfairness
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...egalitarian society but by a new system of discrimination against children like herself and their families. For instance, to be admitted into a good middle school, she had to score 80% on the entrance examination while children of workers and peasants got in with 60%. ''This is unfair!'' I had exclaimed at the time, indignant that my child was being discriminated against. ''But Mommy,'' said Meiping, ''the teacher told us the children of workers and peasants have to do housework or cook the evening meal after school, and their parents can't help them with homework. The treatment...
...Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, included a grid of point-by-point rebuttals against Carter’s assertions. It claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when 1,000 Israelis were killed between 2000 and 2004. “President Carter’s book has been met with controversy and criticism by top scholars who consider it to lack objectivity and to contain...
...accused the BNP, which ruled from 2001 and stood down as constitutionally mandated in October, of stacking the caretaker government and the electoral commission with partisans. Iajuddin was made the head of the interim government, for instance, even though he is a member of the BNP. The accusation of unfair play was echoed by diplomats such as U.S. Ambassador Patricia A. Butenis, who observed that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result." The Awami League also accused the BNP of altering the voter roll in an attempt...
...claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when 1,000 Israelis were killed between...
...people said that’s a corrective action for what the previous president did, I think that would be unfair to that woman,” Hopkins, a long time advocate for women in academia, says...