social injustice

collocation in English

meanings of socialand injustice

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social
adjective
uk /ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/ us /ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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injustice
noun[C or U]
uk /ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/ us /ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
(an example of) a situation in which there is no fairness ...
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Examples of social injustice

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However, do we really want to exclude those who have been disadvantaged by socialinjustice from the moral community?
Attributing causality to communication is a convenient way to elide issues of control or socialinjustice.
This has been not only a waste of human capital, but represents an economic nonsense and a socialinjustice.
Drug use could be reduced considerably by a social order that eliminates the causes of socialinjustice.
They signify a pattern of overwhelming socialinjustice that persists without interference from those oversight bodies so essential to democratic checks and balances.
Their withdrawal, even on a temporary basis, is a matter of socialinjustice.
Is it a social democratic government, modernising public services, addressing problems of social exclusion, socialinjustice and elitism?
Wisdom entails appropriate feeling, even if this feeling is one of anger where socialinjustice is concerned.
If our reasoning is correct, then we do not need to attack the slogan in order to undermine the levelling down objection in cases involving socialinjustice.
Zafzaf's protagonist does not give lectures on women's oppression or socialinjustice in his country.
Socialinjustice still needs to be denounced and fought.
Barry's solution avoids the counter-intuitive nature of the extreme solution, while at the same time chipping away at socialinjustice.
The redressing of socialinjustice must be deferred rather than refused; and the power to redress these grievances has to be displaced away from any particular social class.
He specifically referred to the 20 million unemployed, because they are indeed a constant reminder of the biggest socialinjustice of all.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Instead, they concentrate on more practical points: economic damage, unrealistic targets and possible socialinjustice.
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It is an act of socialinjustice.
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To me this is socialinjustice.
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