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How to use the word disparity in a Sentence?

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So to see that DC had the highest morbidity was not surprising to me at all, we can’t deny the fact that there’s a huge racial disparity, and so I suspect that states that have higher populations of Black pregnant moms, who tend to have a higher risk of morbidity and mortality, are likely to have higher numbers of severe morbidity.

Zsakeba Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously it’s concerning when you see such a large disparity, here’s another example that these disparities are real, and I think it helps inform people – physicians, health systems, providers of care – that the disparity is already there.

Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here’s another example that these disparities are real, and I think it helps inform people – physicians, health systems, providers of care – that the disparity is already there.

Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sadly, the reasons for this disparity go far back, and a key impetus happened just as the nation attempted to fix our public education system.

Dawn Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The collective amount required to close the disparity for approximately 40 million black American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States will come to at least $14 trillion, this is a sum that cannot be met reasonably by private donors or other levels of government.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I still haven't heard any explanation for the disparity between the personal scores that are given to Asians.

Samuel Alito

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're seeing an increase in the white population, and that's great, but we're seeing a smaller increase in people of color. So what we need is an even larger increase to happen in those groups in order to be more confident that that disparity in care is narrowing.

Calliope Holingue

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

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added by unochickie
1 year ago

The far left and the far right are actually pitching the same story, the right is saying this is America, and you should be able to have a gun to protect yourself, and the far left is saying when you crack down on gun possession you create racial disparity in cities where it is a criminal offense to have a gun.

Jeffrey Butts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Number one, there is a moral dimension, two, there is an economic problem — you can reach a point in disparity where your economy as a whole suffers because productivity goes down, and the middle class doesn’t have purchasing power, etcetera.

Jim Himes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jelani is a sweetheart... I shouldn't have to beg. I shouldn't have to plead. I shouldn't have to feel that there is a racial disparity, I shouldn't have to feel anything like that, I want these people that have these resources to realize this this could happen to them.

Carmen Bolden Day

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not going to continue to perpetuate these unjust practices, these police practices, that have really harsh results to our community, we really need to start thinking about the actual negative impact this has with police and community relationships and the outright racial disparity is telling by looking at the numbers.

Ramsey County

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If your society is structured in such a way where there are haves and have nots and there are winners and losers, then why would you expect it to play out any differently — whether it's climate change or Covid-19 vulnerability and disparity ? if it's baked into your system and your society, then the impacts for a systemic attack on your society's gon na play out the same way.

Eddie Bautista

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The NCAA and Division I college sports has become a dysfunctional organization with 350 universities with a huge disparity in financial resources —- with NCAA rules trying to fit them into a one-size-fits-all system, impossible for one man to manage the system.

Karl Benson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The crack/powder sentencing disparity has unquestionably led to unjustified differences in sentences for trafficking in two forms of the same substance, as well as unwarranted racial disparities in its application, the sentencing disparity was based on misinformation about the pharmacology of cocaine and its effects, and it is unnecessary to address the genuine and critical societal problems associated with trafficking cocaine, including violent crime.

Justice Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To see the disparity in the treatment of individuals... who have no respect for our nation's Capitol, vandalizing and actually committing assaults and they get to walk away unharmed and not even arrested, it's hurtful.

Miriam Carey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People are talking about the race disparity in COVID deaths, they're talking about the age disparity, but they're not talking about how race and age disparities interact : They're not talking about older black adults.

Robert Joseph

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He has to come out of this addressing not only the disparity but now addressing the destruction.

David Schultz

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There is a disparity in access to capital in our country. We do not want this tragedy of a coronavirus to exacerbate that disparity or to ossify it, to solidify it.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The culture I come from, the military culture, when a senior asks you to do something, even if it's polite and pleasant, it's not to be taken as a request, it's to be taken as an order, in this case, the power disparity between the two leaders, my impression is that in order to get the White House meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would have to deliver these investigations.

Jim Himes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Here's my theory of change : nearly every sector of society has a huge gender disparity problem, but there's one category of gross inequality where the under-representation of women can be fixed absolutely overnight : on screen.

Geena Davis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Right now we're seeing disparity in moves of the indexes. And that's due primarily to the flow of earnings announcements as they surprise to the upside and disappoint to the downside, if consensus is building that a trough is occurring.

Bucky Hellwig

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is time for the Federation to correct this disparity once and for all.

Molly Levinson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At this moment of tremendous pride for America, the sad equation remains all too clear, and Americans won't stand for it anymore. These athletes generate more revenue and garner higher TV ratings but get paid less simply because they are The US Women, it is time for the Federation to correct this disparity once and for all.

Molly Levinson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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