Meanings of classify people in English

One might easily classify people according to their reaction to reward, praise, punishment and blame.

I don't classify people by their occupations.

The Supreme Court ruling offers only partial guidance to companies about how to classify people who work for them.

Given this influence, it's important that algorithms classify people in ways that are consistent with commonsense notions of fairness.

It is illegal to classify people by ethnicity or to collect data or ask census questions on race or origins.

You now know why different parties found the entire situation offensive, but in trying to classify people, I identified the following main attitudes.

He tried vainly to classify them in any social category: for he always had to classify people before he could begin to understand them.

Back in the early 1900s, "negro" was considered a modern term that could be used to classify people of African descent for the country's census.

A census classified people into seven categories.

The second question in dispute is as to the possibility of classifying people according to the predominant type of their imagery.

He was an editor, and had a mental habit of classifying people while they talked, and putting them away in pigeon-holes.

Mr. Meredith, who had picked up Miss Cornelia's way of classifying people, considered that Ellen belonged to the race of Joseph.

However, the department classifies people as "sensitive" for a number of specified reasons, including homelessness, disability, older age and living in a remote area.