How To Use Invidious In A Sentence
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Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
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Yet again invidious comparisons are made with our continental neighbours whose milk consumption, in part because of very different climatic conditions, is overwhelmingly of UHT milk.
Archive 2007-10-14
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By the way, in case you never thought about it, “Reds” is an invidious term calculated to dehumanize radical activists.
Dry up the tears for that golden period in US Journalism that never was
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My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class.
Black and White
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And what you call invidious ghettos were great defences, they were havens, oases of peace and respect.
Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God?
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England is not best understood by invidious comparison with France.
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I met a lot of people and generalisations are always invidious.
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They were put in an invidious position by the game's governing body.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is an invidious position: we are part of the European Union and are integrated at many levels, except the crucial financial one.
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We find ourselves in the invidious position of being partners in this German enterprise and as partners inevitably sharing the responsibility.
Refugees in the Age of Total War
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invidious comparisons
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We do not use the latter term invidiously, but merely to denote a pair of smooth, plump, highly-coloured cheeks of capacious dimensions, and a mouth rather remarkable for the fresh hue of the lips than for any marked or striking expression it presented.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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That put the appellant in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternatively, Congress should have more leeway to fashion remedies because the states are more likely to be engaging in invidious discrimination where laws or practices touching upon suspect classifications are concerned.
Balkinization
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This obviously places any nominee director in an invidious position.
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It puts them in the invidious position of having to lie.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is indeed awkward to let out the truth about double standards, although it is remarkable that administrators think that students will not make invidious comparisons if the statistics are kept under wraps.
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I do think the propensity of Americans to engage in invidious discrimination really has diminished, and diminished to the point of where much of the 1964 Act is unnecessary.
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
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Constant anxious attention to her appearance becomes a major part of woman's life, a source of frustration, unflagging investment and invidious comparison.
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The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
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It was true that a bank was in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not all the people who compared us invidiously with the Soviet Union or other communist countries were communists.
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The recent longstanding salary dispute, now happily resolved by government action, was unsettling and helped place universities and funding councils in an invidious position.
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These 6,000 teachers are in an invidious situation.
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There are so many sights of parental devotion to be witnessed in the avian world just now that it seems invidious to single one out.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were put in an invidious position by the game's governing body.
Times, Sunday Times
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We do not use the latter term invidiously, but merely to denote a pair of smooth, plump, highly – coloured cheeks of capacious dimensions, and a mouth rather remarkable for the fresh hue of the lips than for any marked or striking expression it presented.
Sketches by Boz
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In this small multi-talented cast comparisons are invidious, but Ben Stillman stood out for the remarkable range of his skills and the sharp definition he brought to his characterisations.
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I have nothing to say about these principles of invidious discrimination.
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The contributors to this book subject these various options and their implication to critical appraisal, and it would be invidious to pick out some contributions and not others.
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I find myself in the invidious position of having to go out and ask whoever it is if they would mind waiting five minutes.
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In reality, of course, all such comparisons are invidious, and the loss of any human being is tragic.
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The rationale behind prohibiting some exercises of discretion is that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects people against invidious discrimination.
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Some of those disability providers have ended up in a very invidious and ambiguous situation of acting, basically, as a procurer to obtain sex for their clients.
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Republicans will be comparing Obama invidiously to Bush on the economy just as Democrats compared Bush invidiously to Clinton.
Matthew Yglesias » For the Defense
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Now we're not surprised at the mayor's invidious juxtaposition since he once famously remarked, when questioned about his tax increase's impact on local bodegas, ‘It's a minor economic issue.’
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Such a tactic is calculated, methodical, invidious — and remarkably effective.
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For out of all the years she had known Lord Blackthorne, he had never acted invidiously.
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Now, this obviously puts me in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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We find ourselves in the invidious position of being partners in this German enterprise and as partners inevitably sharing the responsibility.
Refugees in the Age of Total War
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For example, the most invidious acts of discrimination on grounds of sex, race and sexual orientation may result not from individual misconduct, but from ‘taken for granted’ assumptions about what is appropriate.
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We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.
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The new levy would have precisely the same invidious impact on newspapers and the electronic media.
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That leaves him in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Governors, of treating the two wings of their Government as equally associated with them in a common task of governance, has robbed the distinction between "reserved" and "transferred" subjects, if not of all reality, at any rate of the invidious appearance of discrimination which might otherwise have attached to the word "dyarchy.
India, Old and New
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The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
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That is not only an invidious, but a sarcastical and barbarous
A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753
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We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.
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Now, this obviously puts me in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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These organizations fall well outside any reading of invidious discrimination and are a prime example of how exclusionary organizations and institutions determine and admit qualified members.
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The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
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The new "redlining" is not geographic but something qualitatively similar, and no less invidious against non-corporate entities.
Adams bankers say they'll go after Breedlove (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The novice manager accepts he finds himself in an invidious position following in the footsteps of a man who could have achieved no more.
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That put the appellant in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schumacher is in an invidious position, but as a team player he must take the rough with the smooth.
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This applies even more rigorously if the subject of a musical comedy is a musical-comedy or similar performer; that invites invidious comparisons.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - An all-women's club that counts Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor among its members does not "invidiously discriminate on the basis of sex," she told senators.
Sotomayor defends membership in all-women's club
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There is patently no legitimate overriding purpose independent of invidious racial discrimination which justifies this classification.
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Though far more subtle than in Skinner, however, the discrimination here is nonetheless invidious - as it so often is when some people in the population identify others as unworthy of parenthood.
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This question seems a valid one, but one should remember that such a stance might put the possessor of the truth in an invidious situation.
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You put me in an invidious position by asking me to comment on my colleague's work.
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But perhaps more importantly - and more invidiously - they are afraid for themselves.
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Affirmative action, for them, was no less invidious than traditional race discrimination against disadvantaged minorities.
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I submit the following translation of Tocqueville's final hortatory sentence/paragraph of his masterpiece not as an invidious comparison but as an illustration of differing approaches to the difficult task of translation.
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Clearly Dewey believed that political and economic conditions im modern societies encouraged an "alienation" from the aesthetic qualities of an "act of production," and to that extent Dewey's insistence that distinctions between fine and useful art are invidious is a politically-implicated gesture.
John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
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The chairman is in an invidious position but he did McLeish no favours last week.
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Leaving aside the invidious choices to be made between hesperidia, cucurbitaceae, and drupes — I am a drupe man — and, thence, between apricots, nectarines, mangoes, plums, and peaches, I find there is simply no adequate counter-argument.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The term brings to mind, rather, the importance of kinship relations in primitive societies, and provokes an invidious comparison to England.
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What attracted liberal intellectuals to socialism was something else: mainly, the idea of community, which they contrasted invidiously to the individualism and competition of a market society.
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We didn't chum with the other girls, who called us little cannibals, just because we came from the Sandwich Islands, and who made invidious remarks about our ancestors banqueting on Captain Cook -- which was historically untrue, and, besides, our ancestors hadn't lived in Hawaii.
Chapter 5
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Thus, hand fasted relationships could be broken as they were not sanctified by Holy Church, a nasty invidious Norman custom that was just coming in.
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It was true that a bank was in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not all distinctions are invidious comparisons.
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This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the "dividend-cooking" system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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Putting it this way, it seems to me, might forestall invidious appeals to sheer archivalism, or to a relevance-averse kind of antiquarianism that, in my experience, very few students of considerable ambition and intelligent conviction will now be likely to take up.
Presentism and the Archives
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One way to tell if you are using the somebody-nobody distinction invidiously (as a rationalization for rankist behavior) is to notice to whom you keep your promises.
Robert Fuller: Eight Ways You Can Stop Rankism
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There is enormous support for these men who have been jailed because they have come across as sincere men who have been put in the most invidious position.
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It has placed doctors in an invidious position - they knew the risks of injecting their patients with this caustic poison, yet they had no other option.
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The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
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Despite the hullabaloo, and the invidious position into which he has allowed himself to be manoeuvred, it looks as if he will hold on to his job.
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The invidious comparison implicit in this idea - or rather the elitism, to give it its contemporary nomme de guerre - has understandably given rise to angry backlashes and counter-revolutions.
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The conversation had been swung in that direction by Mrs. Morse, who had been invidiously singing the praises of Mr. Hapgood.
Chapter 29
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Not only is the construction different from Stonehenge (thereby avoiding invidious comparison), but it is also a precursor.
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Such stressors are potentially invidious not least because people may not experience these as unpleasant or be conscious of their effects.
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They now face the most invidious dilemma imaginable - and they have only four weeks in which to solve it.
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It puts them in the invidious position of having to lie.
Times, Sunday Times
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But those singled out for disfavor can be forgiven for suspecting more invidious forces at work.
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Were it to come to trial, it would put the Lords, as judges, in an invidious position, and exposes them to the charge that they are overriding the will of the Commons.
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The latter-day leisure-class festivities and entertainments may continue in some slight degree to serve the religious need and in a higher degree the needs of recreation and conviviality, but they also serve an invidious purpose; and they serve it none the less effectually for having a colorable non-invidious ground in these more avowable motives.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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The British media is in a bit of an invidious position, in that we've got our editors in London saying, Well, we've got carte blanche, we can print what we like.
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There are so many sights of parental devotion to be witnessed in the avian world just now that it seems invidious to single one out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Emily detested her mother's invidious shorthand: there was LC and LMC, MC and HC.
GRACED LAND
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Leaving aside the invidious choices to be made between hesperidia, cucurbitaceae, and drupes — I am a drupe man — and, thence, between apricots, nectarines, mangoes, plums, and peaches, I find there is simply no adequate counter-argument.
Archive 2009-08-01
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But those singled out for disfavor can be forgiven for suspecting more invidious forces at work.
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This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the “dividend-cooking” system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Students are normally assigned randomly to sections, but we gave students a choice as to whether they wanted in on this experiment or not; about 130 chose "in," and rather than invidiously have a small percentage not get their wishes in order to make all the sections the same size, the Deans in their infinite wisdom decided I'd just get to enjoy an extra-large group so that all 1Ls could have their first choice.
Discourse.net: A Good Omen (Herein of Torts)
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One reason may be that it finds itself in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most invidious policy was rotating officers out of infantry companies after six months when grunts had no such option.
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The American Bar Association's judicial codes states that it is inappropriate for judges to belong to groups that "invidiously" discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin.
Republic Broadcasting Network
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It would be invidious to undertake a half-baked presentation and evidence and half-baked cross examination.
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First-time buyers are in an invidious position these days.
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This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers.
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One way to tell if you are using the somebody-nobody distinction invidiously (as a rationalization for rankist behavior) is to notice to whom you keep your promises.
Robert Fuller: Eight Ways You Can Stop Rankism
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What is required by Congress is the removal of artificial, arbitrary, and unnecessary barriers to employment when the barriers operate invidiously to exclude on the basis of racial or other impermissible classification.
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That leaves him in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Certainly it should review the invidious situation whereby news paid for with the licence fee is offered free on its website.
Times, Sunday Times
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One reason may be that it finds itself in an invidious position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Berlinski notes Dembski's extensive academic training, but overlooks Dembski's documented penchant for invidious comparisons.
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The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
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Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
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I must add as well that our "fending" in this fashion for ourselves didn't so prepare us for invidious remark -- remark I mean upon our pewless state, which involved, to my imagination, much the same discredit that a houseless or a cookless would have done -- as to hush in my breast the appeal to our parents, not for religious instruction (of which we had plenty, and of the most charming and familiar) but simply for instruction (a very different thing) as to where we should say we
A Small Boy and Others
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The conference also provides a platform for highlighting casteism as a form of invidious discrimination and an international human rights violation.