Disparity

//dɪsˈpæɹɪti//

"Disparity" in a Sentence (12 examples)

There is in all barbarian communities a profound sense of the disparity between man's and woman's work.

Binocular disparity is difference in images between the two eyes.

Binocular disparity refers to the difference in image location of an object seen by the left and right eyes.

On August 3, 2010, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduces the disparity in the amounts of powder cocaine and crack cocaine required to trigger certain penalties in the federal system, including imposition of mandatory minimum sentences.

Transphobia, also known as trans antagonism, is the main cause of the disparity between the mental health of transgender and cisgender people. Hormonal and surgical interventions are, in most cases, the best way to improve the mental health of transgender people.

3-D glasses make use of retinal disparity.

IMF's chief economist, Gita Gopinath, said labor markets in developing economies have been hit hardest by the pandemic. She said the large disparity in vaccine access and government support between richer and poorer countries is creating a "dangerous divergence in economic prospects."

There's a disparity of power in this world that can't be controlled.

There's a debate about social disparity throughout Japan, but if you look at the world, this level of disparity is negligible.

“This is a scandal that must stop now,” said the director-general about the global vaccine disparity.

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With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.

There was a disparity of view over the use of diesel or electric motive power for the route south of Crewe, and the Prime Minister even felt a modern design of steam locomotives would be the best solution.

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