• Such decision to exclude her from the next Olympiad will have no legal grounds, it will violate the Olympic Charter, it will bring the Olympic Movement into disrepute, it will constitute an abuse of power and discrimination against an athlete who has qualified successfully according to the rules and it will breach the European Convention on Human Rights.

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  • In that landmark 1964 civil rights case, the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.

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  • We certainly needed that demonstration in 1970, because most of us then hadn't quite put together the links between the so-called "beauty industry", male power, and discrimination against women.

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  • In 1964, the commerce clause formed part of the basis for the Civil Rights Act, and the Court upheld the argument that the clause grants Congress the power to prohibit racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.

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  • The case for this law is pretty common sense: knowing what their coworkers make will give employees bargaining power, and may even prevent discrimination.

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  • It was about discrimination at the highest levels of American corporate power and the message that sends about where women belong in business and society.

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  • On September 15th it brought two actions against China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO): one contesting Chinese duties on American exports of a special type of steel used in power generation, and another over discrimination against foreign providers of payment-card transactions.

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  • Nicholas Economides, of New York University, says that when firms have a measure of market power, they can engage in price discrimination, charging different prices to different customers.

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  • The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, gives Congress the power to protect the right to vote from racial discrimination by states.

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  • Opponents of the measure complain that it usurps the power of states to regulate family law and enshrines discrimination against homosexuals into the Constitution.

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  • Conflicts between partners, members, or shareholders arise for a variety of reasons: personality differences, payment of dividends, allegations that a co-owner has converted business assets to personal use, marital divorce, shift in the balance of power and control between younger and older partners, employment discrimination claims and disagreements over the future of the business among others.

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  • Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's three-party alliance hopes widespread grievances over how the National Front has struggled with accusations of arrogance, abuse of public funds and racial discrimination will translate into a surge of votes to propel the opposition into power.

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  • It has the power to build healthy, inclusive societies, and to fight the scourges of disease and discrimination.

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  • The Voting Rights Act gives the federal government the power to oversee any changes in voting procedures in states and jurisdictions with a history of voter discrimination.

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