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They thought that this would make hiring more objective, less biased, and give women and minorities a better shot against biased human managers.
The War of Independence impacted upon us terribly, pitting family against family, neighbor against neighbor.
I wanted to protect the Muslim Afghan population against the Soviet army.
And I bore no hostility against this, my country, nor enmity towards the non-Muslim citizens, and I still don't.
Muslims against Muslims.
Not protecting anyone against invaders or occupiers; not bringing relief to the oppressed.
People who honor our strength and work with, not against, our perceived limitations, people who value health as something much more holistic than a number on an outdated BMI chart.
It's a tool used by those in power against those who have no power.
And there's obviously a sexual violence component to this, which is that this kind of surveillance can be used most effectively against women and other people who can be shamed in our society.
We sit and we keep banging our heads against this term: "Achievement gap, achievement gap!" Is it really that hard to understand why these kids perform well and these kids don't?
They didn't have the ability, and many didn't have the will to really rise up against.
I'm hopeful that by the end of this talk you will make a choice, and join me in standing up against hate.
He then approached her from behind, pressed the barrel of his gun against her head, and with a single bullet, lacerated her midbrain.
One of the simplest and greatest insights into human social nature is the Bedouin proverb: "Me against my brother; me and my brother against our cousin; me and my brother and cousins against the stranger."
One, against a picture of racist graffiti: "This is disgusting!
And so as we more and more vote against the other side and not for our side, you have to keep in mind that if people are on the left, they think, "Well, I used to think that Republicans were bad, but now Donald Trump proves it.
In a meeting, appoint someone to be devil's advocate against your pet idea.
A dissenting viewpoint is something to learn from not to argue against.
And evidence stands up for the man on the street and against the elites.
Coaster engineers play these competing forces against each other, to relieve periods of intense pressure with periods of no pressure at all.
Against all expectation I carried on working, and my kids were and continue to be absolutely fantastic.
There's police violence against African-Americans, and there's violence against women, two issues that have been talked about a lot lately.
I actually read about Emma's story from the pages of a legal opinion written by a judge who had dismissed Emma's claim of race and gender discrimination against a local car manufacturing plant.
Police violence against black women is very real.
In 2014, the African-American Policy Forum began to demand that we "say her name" at rallies, at protests, at conferences, at meetings, anywhere and everywhere that state violence against black bodies is being discussed.
They recently came out hard against private prisons in the US, and good for them.
It included community advocates who were used to fighting against things, but found the Atlanta BeltLine as something that they could fight for; developers who saw the opportunity to take advantage of a lot of new growth in the city; and dozens of nonprofit partners who saw their mission at least partly accomplished by the shared vision.
If you fight against that pain, you just create more pain, and you block what wants to be born.
And against the odds, we found a match for her, who turned out to be me.
At the very same time that we need religion to be a strong force against extremism, it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism.
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