What's the difference between disservice and inequity?

Disservice


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury; mischief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (2) By pretending to ignore the scientific evidence, AquaBounty is doing readers a disservice.
  • (3) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
  • (4) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
  • (5) John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "The CBI claims to represent the interests of British industry but it's actually doing its members a great disservice.
  • (6) To have so few diverse representatives from the community does it a disservice.
  • (7) We would be doing a disservice to those warriors of justice … were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today,” he said.
  • (8) A call is made for physicians to continuously look for cheaper ways of managing patients without necessarily causing any disservice to the patient.
  • (9) Preserving the "every woman can nurse" myth contributes to perpetuating a simplistic view of lactation and does a disservice to the small percentage of women with primary causes of unsuccessful lactation.
  • (10) With that exclusion, they did all of us a disservice, because that history is Australia’s history, it is important for all Australians to know where we’ve come from, and by pretending it didn’t exist, they robbed us all of something unique.
  • (11) We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America.
  • (12) "This conduct is gross disservice to Chinua Achebe and disrespectful of the life-engrossing occupation known as literature.
  • (13) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
  • (14) They have done a disservice to the field in disparaging basic research.
  • (15) October 31, 2013 12.04am GMT Email From Matthew: I know it is easy to decry the coverage by Fox, but they really did a disservice to the audience by breaking away from the Dropkick Murphys firing up the Boston faithful.
  • (16) When the pontiff can’t bring the hammer down hard on one of the globe’s most egregious and well-documented bishops complicit in child abuse cover-ups, he does a disservice to disillusioned Catholics who expect real reform.
  • (17) The physician who delays or defers a careful investigation into the cause of a given patient's hematuria (gross or microscopic) does the patient a disservice at best and, at worst, may inadvertently permit a significant disease process to become more extensive.
  • (18) By operating in isolation and missing the bigger picture, we can do them a disservice.
  • (19) The use of mythology to simplify experiments, to artificially "clarify" complex issues, or to "protect" patients is seen as a disservice.
  • (20) If you try to deny that's there, I do myself and the people I represent a disservice."

Inequity


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of equity; injustice; wrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
  • (2) As Clegg suggests, issues such as inequality are sidelined.
  • (3) It’s not like there’s a simple answer.” Vassilopoulos said: “The media is all about entertainment.” “I don’t think they sell too many papers or get too many advertisements because of their coverage of income inequality,” said Calvert.
  • (4) From the well-known Chebyshev's inequality, it has been shown that the possible error which could be derived from the Tsou plot will be much smaller than the usual experimental error obtainable.
  • (5) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
  • (6) Their actions suggested that while Brown was busy unilaterally absolving the inequities of our colonial past, the Iraqis are still dealing with the iniquities of our colonial present.
  • (7) Entitled Jobs, Justice and Equity, the report warned that growing inequality, marginalisation and disenfranchisement are threatening Africa's prospects and undermining the foundations of its recent success.
  • (8) Our latest Global development podcast explores the lessons the Ebola outbreak can teach us about global health inequality, looking at the weaknesses in the current response, the shortfall in global health spending, and the actions required to prevent further outbreaks.
  • (9) The detection of health inequalities in the urban environment and their magnitude depends to a great extent on the internal social coherence of the geographical division used.
  • (10) Their unique point of view comes from diverse social and cultural experiences punctuated by a lifetime of inequities.
  • (11) A long spell of ultra-low interest rates has not driven a rise in inequality in the UK, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has said, rebuffing criticism that central bank policy had hurt some households.
  • (12) They then spoke about working together to address major threats to world security such as climate change, persistent economic inequality and international terrorism, as well as opportunities to upgrade cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and the UK.
  • (13) When the Occupy movement suggested a distinction between the 1% and the 99% in society, this was based on the distribution of wealth, going right to the root of social inequalities: the 1% are the multimillionaires.
  • (14) If Davos is a closed shop for the wealthy and powerful elites who caused today’s global inequality, it won’t come up with the answers needed for a more fair and prosperous future for all the world’s workers and their families.
  • (15) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
  • (16) The diagnosis related group (DRG) prospective hospital payment system contains inequities in hospital payment for certain groups of patients.
  • (17) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
  • (18) In a globalised world, poor educational attainment traps people in low pay and increases inequality.
  • (19) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
  • (20) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.

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