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Now that Japan has withdrawn from the IWC, whalers will no longer hunt in international waters but will pursue them in an economic exclusion zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the Japanese coast. — Ivan Watson, CNN, "By killing whales, Japan seeks to revive a dying industry," 2 July 2019 In response to Thompson preposterously and offensively depicting the exclusion of African-Americans on the basis of race as a virtue for the club, sponsors threatened to pull their deals with Shoal Creek. — SI.com, "Why Private Golf Clubs Are Legally Still Able to Discriminate Against Women," 1 July 2019 This move would prioritize bringing in those who are highly educated and skilled, to the exclusion of unskilled immigrant workers. — Cati Coe, The Conversation, "‘Unskilled’ immigrants help to ease the pain of dying Americans," 25 June 2019 This April Dr Scott and his colleagues at Bristol completed an aerial survey of the Red Forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine using robotic drones. — The Economist, "Cleaning up nuclear waste is an obvious task for robots," 20 June 2019 The employer tax exclusion is also highly regressive, because those in higher tax brackets receive a larger benefit from the rule than those in lower ones. — Avik Roy, Twin Cities, "Avik Roy: Trump could revolutionize the private health insurance market," 20 June 2019 Today, the exclusion zone is eerily quiet, yet full of life. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, "The Chernobyl disaster: What happened, and the long-term impacts," 17 May 2019 The area of the exclusion zone with above-background radiation levels has also shrunk considerably. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "An insider’s perspective on Fukushima and everything that came after," 5 Oct. 2018 The politics of exclusion may be racist, unjust and on the wrong side of history, but xenophobes seem to continue winning hearts and minds — and elections — across the world. — Bilal Qureshi, Washington Post, "Immigration as reparation for colonialism, climate change and corporate greed," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'exclusion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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