How To Use Prejudice In A Sentence

Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
It literally unlocks the prejudice of so many people, and emancipates them from the dungeon of partial judgment. WHAT IS SAID, NOT WHO SAYS IT
The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.

I hope that my faithful advice will not be bewrayed to my prejudice? Kenilworth
The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best. Times, Sunday Times
This issue owes less to public prejudice than to the conceit of the liberal elite.
Their prejudiced ideological view of each other lingered on.
In a series of calls, he made clear that Britain would retain the referendum option and that he did not want to prejudice next week's crisis talks at a Brussels summit.
Otherwise, the sketch is exactly accurate, and is here presented as the unprejudiced description and estimate of a foreign gentleman, who had no inducement, such as might be attributed to a Southern writer, to overcolor his portrait. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
Would you be "boggled" if I suggest that the characterisation of blacks here as a mob of rampaging gang-rapists is a product of prejudice and, in its emotional manipulation, serves to reinforce prejudice? Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt. Arabian nights. English
Petit de la Croix, a Paris, 1710, in 12mo.; a work of ten years’ labor, chiefly drawn from the Persian writers, among whom Nisavi, the secretary of Sultan Gelaleddin, has the merit and prejudices of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
That society had a lot of different modes and different opinions and different prejudices. Times, Sunday Times
How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
He used his celebrity to speak out against fascism and racial prejudice.
We do not believe this extension would prejudice the state in any way in light of the Florida Supreme Court's opinion.
Officers in uniform are often put before the massed media to bear the brunt of their barbs - and, of course, to reinforce the anti-military prejudice.
When it comes to free trade, as Adam Smith once opined, ‘Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it.’
This part of the community needs to be protected from racial prejudice .
As King said, "We must see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. John W. Whitehead: The 2010 Elections: Full of Sound and Fury, and Signifying Nothing
Each of us observes the world and the people with whom we come in contact through a lens refracted by our own upbringing, experiences and prejudices.
The issue is the flagrant abuse of the term skeptical as used by someone with a highly selective and prejudiced opinion, as coupled with an inherent mistrust of a majority Deltoid
‘Bliss is one of the few places where teenagers can get support and clear, unprejudiced information that can help them weave their way through the maze of adolescence,’ she says.
Preconceived notions are prejudices about what is supposed to happen during the ritual, or the way in which the ritual must be done.
All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
Judges are supposed to be impartial and immune to influence or prejudice from outside the courtroom. The Sun
Even the campaign's biggest newspaper enthusiasts are nervous about any accusation of being prejudiced, devoting many column inches to denying charges of homophobia and bigotry before they had even been made.
In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification. G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler
The journey of choosing to overcome your nature and prejudices for a chance to love and be loved unconditionally is so rich in these books that I know the movie can't really touch that. Second Full Trailer for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight « FirstShowing.net
He said that the Roman Catholic Church is a greater threat to relationships than Facebook: "Religious bigotry has fuelled the fragmentation of societies, the increase in prejudice and reactionary thinking". The End of Civilization As We Know It
The prosecution lawyers have been trying to prejudice the jury against her.
Bringing it back to Freshwater: it looks as though he was given a simplistic test scheme which he could game by playing the short-term rote memorisation card with his classes, while pandering to his own religious prejudices. Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb
Conflict will only arise if we practice prejudice against either wisdom or faith.
In order to succeed here you will need to overcome your prejudices.
These prejudices are gradually and silently melting away; and it is cheering to see the better feelings of our nature effectively advancing the art to its legitimate place in education, under the guise of gymnastics and callisthenics. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
People are killing each other because of bigotry, fanaticism and prejudice, so why are we adding to the burden of intolerance?
The third, and worst, degree of turpitude is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautiﬁed in such a fashion as to conform to the notions and prejudices of a given public. Check out ...
you may need to flick through Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a new version of Austen's classic romance into which US writer Seth Grahame-Smith has inserted a series of zombie horror interludes .
written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers
If any thing has fallen under your observation, either on the one side or the other, I intreat you to lay it totally aside; to come to the consideration of this subject with cool, dispassionate, unprejudiced, unprepossessed minds, to attend to the evidence that will be laid before you, and to that evidence alone -- by that evidence let the Defendants stand or fall. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
Environmentalists are prejudiced against the dam.
Eight-eyes glued to the plasterboard screen, we witnessed the power of hope amidst prejudice and unreward as the "indigenous" soldiers (aka the Algerian Infantry Division) arrived in France from the colonies to help free their "motherland". WWII soldiers remembrance
But the Bench refused to stay the proceedings after Jordan had contended he had been prejudiced by undue, unconscionable and inordinate delay since the raid two years ago.
Its effect is to confine any exceptions to certain special cases provided such excepted use does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
Peace and blessings 2 all of good moral conduct, i pray and hope that this bill will stop insurance companies from being immune from prosecution when they behave criminally by changing a patients identity in order 2 evade responsibilities in honoring the ethic codes of providing health coverage without prejudice because of preconditioned injuries, .. Reid's vote surprises everyone – including himself
The school How does one suspend one's prejudices about a place so familiar as a school?
We will draw the conclusions that are required and endure the consequences as the Word of God instructs us, without prejudice and without partiality.
The campaign is designed to make people less prejudiced about AIDS.
Many of these enquiries were based on anecdotal evidence and coloured by popular prejudices.
We all bring to a film our own storehouse of experiences, impressions, prejudices.
What has prejudiced you against modern music?
The basis for this whole interrogation is to determine if she has the extensive and extraordinary ability and sensibility to apply our laws to the issues brought before our Supreme Court, without malice or personal prejudice. Sotomayor: Judges have different task than what citizens expect
The big question is whether her long-time fans will allow her to grow in new directions, and will those who take their music seriously listen without prejudice? Times, Sunday Times
Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
Such prejudices are the necessary base of defensive positions which might threaten our own sexual identity.
Well, it is in the nature of rats to spread disease, which they do without rancor and without a selfish thought, butit causes us toexterminate them without prejudice. Spineless Dems or a Dem-Trifecta Driven Filibuster-Proof Congress and a Media Carrot
Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities reduces racial prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
Such ingrained prejudices cannot be corrected easily.
Although he lacks the historical context to articulate Kant's Categorical Moral Imperative, he describes a Supreme Being for whom something akin to this axiom is the ultimate measure of a man, a God who believes that one's ethical duty is to acquire and exercise wisdom, to evaluate and constantly re-evaluate one's beliefs -- including what one's ethical duty is -- by applying the utmost objectivity to one's own preconceptions and prejudices. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO
The crowd began to mutter angrily, the glowing embers of their ancient prejudices that had been viciously stoked by the near murder of their King were being fanned to fury so easily by the power of the monarch's simple words.
Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.
That old soldier, without any prejudices, had, by a mulattress, a son whom he recognized and to whom he left -- I do not know how many dollars. The French Immortals Series — Complete
It's also the catalyst for loyal company man Wikus to examine his own prejudices and rock-bound belief system. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
Research indicates that stigma, shame and prejudice result in people delaying treatment and families denying that a family member may have a mental illness.
Why was this bad-tempered, miserly, sleepless bachelor so capable of rising above both religious and scientific prejudices, with practical and theoretical insights that are still valuable today?
In that respect, we do not consider that any prejudice in fact resulted.
Details of the grounds of appeal cannot be reported so as not to prejudice the new trial. Times, Sunday Times
The prospect was pleasing to many young white men in the ranks; and ambition went far to irradicate prejudice against Negro soldiers. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
So unless you're minded to cut 'em into collops and be done with it, you'd best make allowances for their prejudices when you're after asking them to swear that first oath.
The work of these women showed that the search for the best minds in science cannot be limited by a prejudiced view of gender.
The arrangements accepted in this Agreement are without prejudice to the financial autonomy now vested in the Federated Shan States.
Only in this way can the unprejudiced and unbiased position of the Times be understood.
Their rarity made them targets of male prejudice and ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
But today the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
Many have experienced racial prejudice from other ethnic groups than my own too.
I was straightening up the teddy bears and long-stemmed red roses this morning at the Michael Jackson Eternal Moonwalk Memorial on what would have been The Gloved One's 53rd birthday when I heard this guy say “You'd think it was tupping Shakespeare who died—instead of an androgynous black man who overcame racial prejudice by turning himself into a white woman.” Who's Better: Michael Jackson or Shakespeare?
Some prejudices (preconceived opinions of an individual based on opinions about the many) have names such as racism, sexism, or ageism.
He came to hate the town, with its narrow prejudices.
The worthless overture of the 'Prophete,' disfiguring this fine ensemble, had been hissed by some students of the Conservatoire, and, accustomed as I was to the blindness of the general public, knowing its implacable prejudices, I trembled for the fate of the magnificent septuor about to follow. The Great Italian and French Composers
One glimpse brought all his prejudices bubbling up from their hidden depths.
They need to be ferreted out, rounded up like cattle, punished for their numerous crimes, then booted back to whence they snuck in from with such extreme prejudice that they will never, ever think of violating our sovereignty again. Wonk Room » Newt Gingrich Says Legalization Program Should Involve Sending 12 Million Immigrants Back
The author concludes that many economists of great stature from both the neoclassical and institutionalist schools were not able to rise above the leading prejudices of their day.
More generally, various dimensions of prejudice matter to understanding both prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory behavior.
Even where there is no direct prejudice, there may be unfair preferences which should not count.
If we are going to insist on banning people from fighting, it should be done on the basis of individual health, not group prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
He felt that, single-minded and self-sacrificing as his parents were, there yet existed certain latent prejudices of theirs, as middle-class people, which it would require some tact to overcome.
There were incredible conditions of prejudice, they faced all sorts of restraints, yet they were dancing, singing, acting comedians, tragedians - you name it.
It's time to do away with the old prejudices about cordless technology and ergonomics.
In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED … dgardner @TonyClement_MP: There are options between "genuflect" and "dismiss with extreme prejudice. Macleans.ca
In this section, we describe these forms of explicit prejudice.
Laws against racial prejudice must be strictly enforced.
The survey also showed white people thought racial prejudice was getting worse. The Sun
All these things are based upon the idea that the child should grow in immobility, and upon the strange prejudice that, in order to execute any educational movement, we must maintain a special position of the body; – as we believe that we must assume a special position when we are about to pray. The Montessori Method
What may seem to prejudice a reader's full and appreciative view of her as a key figure amongst Dickens's women characters is her determined eccentricity.
Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities reduces racial prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
Women still face prejudice in the workplace.
I laugh at my 76-year-old mother's anti-Catholic prejudices, because I can see the naked chauvinism behind them for what it is.
This is a climate in which we cannot afford to allow science to be second-guessed by politics or prejudice.
Rather, the deferral is taken without prejudice; it is a pause, a time-out, to allow the President to establish his vision for human space exploration and to commit to realistic future funding levels to realize this vision. NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
Religious people are more likely to be prejudiced, dogmatic and closed-mind, and not all believers are faithful to the moral percepts and principles taught by religion. Dr T.P.Chia
I'm positively depressed with the levels of prejudice and obscurantism I've witnessed in modern day Scotland.
Done badly, they can reinforce racial stereotypes and increase the prejudices they were designed to reduce.
The judge accordingly recognised that the prejudice to Mr Margolis in not disapplying the limitation provisions was in this respect rather greater than for other claimants whose damages claim might not be so large.
Her study was not in any way intended to prejudice the future development of the college.
Economic privilege and injustice is increasing and class prejudice is accepted to an alarming degree.
Policies to avoid bias in the conduct and reporting of research should be guided by scientific principles, not by moralism or prejudice.
I'd like watch as each argument just runs out of steam, leaving just the prejudice and chauvinism for all to see.
the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman
There is widespread prejudice against workers over 45.
This project is a demonstration that this prejudice is not justified.
We designers should learn to understand that end-users each have their own set of preferences, prejudices, and requisites.
Hey GOP, remember that swell idea ol 'Dick Nixon had back in the day, when you'd get all those angry white southern folk to come on over to your side by pandering to their basest prejudices? First on the Ticker: GOP heckler blasted by 2010 challenger
If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
If anything, it allows for a reverse form of cultural prejudice, through which critics idealize large groups of people they barely understand.
But to rule out the idea definitively would prejudice the options of future Iraqi governments and American administrations. Michael O'Hanlon: IRAQ: Permanent Bases a Mistake?
Making this allegation, the national general secretary of the All India Akashvani and Doordarshan SC/ST Employees 'Welfare Association, O. P Gautham, said, "The Mangalore AIR is a hub for the worst kind of casteism and prejudice. The Hindu - Front Page
We must struggle against this prejudice for a more tolerant attitude to our beliefs.
A number of excellent suggestions to help people avoid the inadvertent expression of prejudice are offered, albeit interspersed among excoriating, castigatory comments that are entirely irrelevant to The Cause, hence diminish the impact and strength of purpose of both. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best. Times, Sunday Times
The judge told the jury that they must not allow their feelings to prejudice them.
Of course, many of those who were right about the war were only right because of their own partisan prejudices.
In the British system of local government, gradually evolved from the experience of the past and carefully upbuilt in accordance with modern democratic institutions to suit every local condition, we have a system which contains all the wisdom of the old with all the utilitarianism and democratic vigour of the young, combined with a remarkable adaptability to local conditions and even local prejudices. Britain's Experience of Public Ownership
Prejudice against beards (pogonophobia) is a relic of an age when beards seemed shifty.
He had in his spirit the classical outline of music, with nothing directly revolutionary, no sign of what we call revolt other than the strict adherence to personal relationship, no other prejudice than the artist's reaction against all that is not really refined to art, with but one consuming ardor, and that to render with extreme tranquillity everything delicate and lovely in passing things. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
Here you have someone who is obviously a talented politician (if playing for the wrong team - the GOP, that is) and he can't be allowed to run for higher office because of the prejudices of a bunch of medieval lamebrains.
For thou art Advocate as well as Judge, and unless thou have well organized thy Mind thou art a bondslave of Prejudice.
I try to be aware of the space I take up, of the prejudice that I carry, and the privilege that is the albatross around my neck.
Under the microscope it turns out to be a collection of prejudices masquerading as arguments and distortions dressed up to look like facts.
Free to adhere to or reject what is known, human beings cannot be coerced by attempted external pressure or used as a means by others without prejudice to the inviolable truth in which they share innately through their participation in the light of being and which they attain adventitiously through the direct perception that unfolds determined truths to their intellectual gaze. Antonio Rosmini
In a way this suggested that there was nothing more substantial to the conflict than a misunderstanding and old-fashioned prejudice: a falling out between neighbours.
They find out quickly how easy it is to hurt one another with unquestioned assumptions and prejudices.
He prejudiced his claim by demanding too much compensation.
Any delay will prejudice the child's welfare.
Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence.
While Hillary likes to break people into groups by sex and racial prejudice, ( "hardworking" is not limited to the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia) the fear group is composed of those who, for lack of thought or lack of care, don't know what change might mean. Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly
The makers of meat extracts and other foods, either from their own ignorance of modern research or their wish to take advantage of the lack of knowledge and prejudice of the public, call proteid matter alone nourishment. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
The continent is doomed by its population boom, its endemic diseases, its tribalism, its corruption, its lack of infrastructure, even -- whisper some, more in sorrow than in prejudice -- its genes.
Details of the grounds of appeal cannot be reported so as not to prejudice the new trial. Times, Sunday Times
A judge must be free from prejudice.
A judge must be free from prejudice.
That society had a lot of different modes and different opinions and different prejudices. Times, Sunday Times
But De Vaux was influenced only by his general prejudices, which dictated to him the assured belief that a wily Italian priest, a false-hearted Scot, and an infidel physician, formed a set of ingredients from which all evil, and no good, was likely to be extracted. The Talisman
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice. Miroslav Volf: Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?
Although many citizens have taken a keen interest in the bearded vulture's recovery, old prejudices about the bird die hard.
The speech was just pandering to racial prejudice.
‘Without doubt humour is a vehicle for exposing prejudices but I am against jokes that normalise violence,’ Cara says.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
The performance of rites of worship must not prejudice public order or public morals.
To be regarded by the dominant society of Australia 1965 as being a "boong", "coon" or "Abo" was a passport to discrimination, prejudice and poverty, and many light-skinned Aboriginal people opted to assume a non-Aboriginal identity Indian, afghan, Maori, etc to escape the extreme difficulty of life as an Aboriginal person. Archive 2005-04-01
We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
In the last couple of years, though, a crop of novels has appeared which, like these two classics, combine pleasure with politics, and carefully reinforce the prejudices of nonconformists everywhere.
To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare of the very beings whose present existence they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The third, and worst, degree of turpitude is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautiﬁed in such a fashion as to conform to the notions and prejudices of a given public. Check out ...
But perhaps this could be considered prejudiced, xenophobic or a decidedly un-Christian attitude.
If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
One wonders how many of Sharp's critics today would be prepared to sink their own prejudices and defy political correctness in order to do so.
It veers from moody French film music to something much darker when he tackles his true subject, prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
I have a strong prejudice against spots of red foliage against a general background of green. The Education of a Gardener
While discharging duties, I have taken unpopular decisions in my career, but without an iota of prejudice.
It needn't just be used to confront the obvious prejudices, either.
Because, in a few words, the dispute between Russia and Georgia for domination in South Ossetia and Abkhazia wasn't virginal generation - actually, it was born as a result of Kosovo's independence, as another one affirmation of the incontrollable consequences that prejudiced support of independence movements can have. Opening Pandora's box of national sovereignty?
In addition to the IATs, Cox added questions that ask respondents to compare Obama to other blacks to measure whether people "subtype" him or, in other words, see him as a positive exception to their normal prejudices regarding blacks. Badger Herald: News Updates
You just cheer for your team or your player with blind prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, discrimination and prejudice are all around, and only an infinitesimally tiny sliver of the total number of racist utterances will ever get in front of a Tribunal judge.
Likewise the weaker the case of the plaintiff the less is he prejudiced by the operation of the provision and the less is the defendant prejudiced if it is disapplied.
No one can contend that prejudice and racial hatred are yesterday's problems. Times, Sunday Times
Dame Kepler employed a young advocate who for reasons of his own “nursed” the case so long that after five years had elapsed without any conclusion being reached another judge was appointed, who had himself suffered from the caustic tongue of the prosecutrix, and so was already prejudiced against her. Kepler
Additionally, she provides many details of the prejudices and adversity the women of the OSS encountered during their tours of duty.
Moreover, the majority of this population was still so full of prejudices that, just in the "reddest Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
That the cabildo, magistracy, and regimiento of Manila be ordered to allot annually the lading of the vessels to the citizens of Manila, for much harm has resulted to the citizens from the governor allotting it -- the lading being made illegally, and the governor having allotted it to many of his servants and relatives to the prejudice of the citizens and those born in this country. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices (made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions), that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
Generations of school pupils have studied the American tale of injustice and prejudice in Depression-era Alabama while the 1962 film starring Gregory Peck is an enduring classic.
Again, I think the absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.
Part of their litany is a desire to avoid coming face to face with academics or scientists who are specialists in their subject and might be able to debunk their prejudices. An empty chair for Monbiot
The council must provide housing for young people whose welfare is seriously prejudiced.
Trying to essentialise happiness, who experiences it, and how it is obtained or passed on-these normalising tendencies-will inevitably lead to prejudice and assumptions. BMJ Latest Articles
Some beliefs are the hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic, others are the products of egoism, biases, prejudices or preferences. Dr T.P.Chia
It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths. To Infidelity and Back
Biko spoke of liberation as both an act of claiming land and legal rights but also an act of psychological emancipation from the chains of the mind where by people internalized the prejudices of the oppressor and then oppresses others the way they have been oppressed. Open Letter from Sex Worker Advocate to South Africa’s Honorable Premier Nomvula Mokonyane « Bound, Not Gagged
While the subject matter may be terminally uneasy viewing for many, the unprejudiced should award accolades to a surrealistic tale of brotherly love and dealing with one's lot.
Many had also learnt from bitter experience that a good education was needed in the continuing battle against colour prejudice.
She had passed through the Empire, she had lived through a siege, had rubbed shoulders with the Commune, had seen everything, no doubt, of what men are capable in the pursuit of their desires or in the extremity of their distress, for love, for money, and even for honour; and in her precarious connection with the very highest spheres she had kept her own honourability unscathed while she had lost all her prejudices. The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes
He was really ‘above it all’ you might say, with a very disinterested, unprejudiced mind.
These prejudices have been allowed to run riot for too long.
It is little bit hard to see how a guarantor is prejudiced by having a 10-year obligation reduced to some shorter obligation.
In spite of the glowing reports issued annually from various foreign hospitals for natives, and the undeniable good, though desultory and practically infinitesimal, that is being worked by these institutions, we cannot blind ourselves to the fact that western medical science is not making more rapid strides than many other innovations in the great struggle against Chinese prejudice and distrust. Historic China, and other sketches
Maidens and honesty wandered then, I say, where they listed, alone, signiorising, secure that no stranger liberty, or lascivious intent could prejudice it, or their own native desire or will any way endamage it. The Second Book. III. Of That Which Passed between Don Quixote and Certain Goatherds
She criticized the government for trying to whip up anti-German prejudice.
But the magazine also reflected the snobberies and prejudices of the upper classes.

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