With the successes of the civil rights movement, a new term was needed to break from the past and help shed the reminders of legalized discrimination.

Since the American Civil War the term " discrimination " generally evolved in American English usage as an understanding of prejudicial treatment of an individual based solely on their race, later generalized as membership in a certain socially undesirable group or social category.

The term " glass ceiling " is used to describe a perceived barrier to advancement in employment based on discrimination, especially sex discrimination.

In Switzerland public discrimination or invoking to rancor against persons or a group of people because of their race, ethnicity, is getting penalized with a term of imprisonment until 3 years or a mulct.

Manatees are capable of understanding discrimination tasks, and show signs of complex associated learning and advanced long term memory.

Moreover, the commentators claimed there never was a “ Political Correctness movement ” in the US, and that many who use the term do so to distract attention from substantive debate about racial, class and gender discrimination and unequal legal treatment.

The term is commonly used negatively and is usually associated with race-based prejudice, violence, dislike, discrimination, or oppression, the term can also have varying and contested definitions.

the term " racial discrimination " shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

The most devastating form of redlining, and the most common use of the term, refers to mortgage discrimination.

The term sexism is most often used in relation to discrimination against women ,.

In the 1970s, the term Speciesism was coined as people begun to question human's natural discrimination to other species.

It refers to the practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate the area where banks would not invest ; later the term was applied to discrimination against a particular group of people ( usually by race or sex ) irrespective of geography.

For the purpose of the present Convention, the term ' the crime of apartheid ', which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practiced in southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhumane acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them:

the term " racial discrimination " shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

The most devastating form of redlining, and the most common use of the term, refers to mortgage discrimination.

As we use the term here, " discrimination " simply means differential treatment of in-state and out-of-state economic interests that benefits the former and burdens the latter.

Reverse discrimination is a term referring to discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, including the city or state, or in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group.

Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce ; exempted private clubs without defining the term " private.

Political activity related to peonage and racial discrimination in the Mississippi delta and other areas of the state led to violence during his term of office.

The term " touch ", as used in this article, refers to the perception of detailed, localized tactile information, such as " two-point discrimination " ( the difference between touching one point and two closely spaced points ) or the difference between grades of sandpaper ( coarse, medium and fine ).

This term, sometimes called fair equality of opportunity, is a somewhat broader and more expansive concept than the more limiting formal equality of opportunity and it deals with what is sometimes described as indirect discrimination.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

The most usual shabi term for the geographic area of a bishop's authority and ministry, the diocese, began as part of the structure of the Roman Empire under Diocletian.

The computer term bootstrap began as a metaphor in the 1950s.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

At this time, the term " Chicano " began to reference those who resisted total assimilation, while the term " Pochos " referred ( often pejoratively ) to those who strongly advocated assimilation.

While the term " liberal " had been used to describe all political forces in Colombia, the conservatives began describing themselves as " conservative liberals " and their opponents as " red liberals ".

Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

" Although what is known today as the liberal arts college began in Europe, the term is more commonly associated with Universities in the United States.

However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

By the time of the Protestant Reformation, Protestant theologians began to embrace the term evangelical as referring to " gospel truth ".

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

It began a change in direction for the Marlins as they looked to be more aggressive on the trade front ( for their short term benefit ) and free agency.

It was Shepherd who first used the English term " first aid for the injured " First aid training began to spread through the empire through organisations such as St. John, often starting, as in the UK, with high risk activities such as ports and railways.

Later, the term feudum, or feodum, began to replace beneficium in the documents.

The original ethnic Franks ceased to be called by others and themselves Franks, whereas certain groups of people who were not Franks but were mostly ruled by Frankish nobility now began to use it as a term to describe their respective land and people.

By the Hellenistic period, it began to also be associated with Greco-Roman mystery cults and ceremonies, becoming synonymous with the Greek term musterion.

Disaster hit the nation as his second term began when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression that Cleveland was unable to reverse.

Later in his term, as his fellow Democrats chafed at being excluded from the spoils, Cleveland began to replace more of the partisan Republican officeholders with Democrats.