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Explanation: Crucially, positive discrimination allows an employer to pick a candidate specifically on the basis of their protected characteristic, whereas a company can only evoke positive action when choosing who to hire or promote “if it is faced with two candidates who are 'as qualified as' each other”, says free-access HR
I believe the answer is A. This is because the sentence is supposed to be parallel and all of the verbs(except for hiss) have to be past tense.
B because oppose is like opposite and all the other answers are synonyms of eachother to mean something relating to being similar
