But police departments around the country are working very hard to fight these ill-conceived notions and, in recent years their diversity recruitment and selection processes, paired with modules in sensitivity and multicultural training, have had an impact.

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Six of the top 10 men in the current World Golf Rankings are from different Olympic nations, and selection rules will ensure even more diversity.

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Before the last general election Mr Cameron meddled with candidate-selection procedures to enhance social and ethnic diversity.

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In the Lords (from 2.30pm) it's quite a heavy legislating day - but first, there's an eclectic selection of questions to ministers, with peers asking about cultural diversity in the media and creative industries, progress in discontinuing funding for the Republic of Ireland's aids to navigation, discussions with energy providers about recent price increases and the shortage of midwives.

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Often the selection process for high potential roles is so well tuned that it filters out any diversity.

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The wide selection reflects multiple regional realities in a continental Brazil, with all its cultural and social diversity, working in different fronts towards social transformation.

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