unequal access
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunequalandaccess
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unequal
adjective
uk/ʌnˈiː.kwəl/us/ʌnˈiː.kwəl/
formal
different in size, level, ...
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access
noun[U]
uk/ˈæk.ses/us/ˈæk.ses/
the method or possibility of getting near to a place ...
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(Definition ofunequalandaccessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunequal access
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The context is the continued subordination of women to male domination and their inadequate andunequalaccessto political, social and economic power.
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This may indicateunequalaccessto the technology, materials, and/or labor required for the construction of this kind of water-control feature.
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In addition,unequalaccessto such services, such as for rural populations and disadvantaged groups, could be improved through more equitable financing.
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This would result inunequalaccessto care, as well as varying quality of care for different groups of people.
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Therefore, we have replaced the contextual and gesture-use restriction with more meaningful asymmetries, likeunequalaccessto previous information and to manipulation of materials.
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And yet, decisions about who will be admitted to the waiting list appear to constitute a primary source ofunequalaccessto organ transplants.
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Such a system will lead tounequalaccessto healthcare, but it does not follow that this is unjust.
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The scarcity of these figurines relative to contemporaneous solid figurines is also indicative of limited availability andunequalaccess.
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This change resulted inunequalaccessto health care, and the idea of solidarity emerged.
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The president and his party also hadunequalaccessto state resources and institutions, some of which were diverted to serve party ends.
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Conflict mostly involvesunequalaccessto power and material resources, and perceived threats to a group's cultural identity.
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Jacobs's aim is to undercut the objection we encountered above: that versions of equal opportunity that allow natural differences to translate intounequalaccessto social goods are unfair.
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Jacobs argues that there are no such natural inequalities; there are only natural differences between people, which malleable social institutions translate intounequalaccessto goods.
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What is being developed is not a new system, butunequalaccessto an existing system.
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In its 1998 annual report, the commission said that it continued to receive complaints from ethnic minority staff aboutunequalaccessto promotion opportunities.
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So, if you believe that liberalising services should meanunequalaccess, please be honest enough to say so to our fellow citizens.
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We are againstunequalaccessto schools, with schools choosing pupils rather than pupils and parents being able to choose schools.
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Most importantly, the region suffers from scarce resources and theunequalaccessof different groups to these resources.
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The power of corporations to influence politicians can lead tounequalaccessto law- and decision-making processes vis-à-vis the ordinary citizen.
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