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Prejudice in sentence

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To do so would be to display a prejudice against other beings merely because they are not members of our species – a prejudice we call speciesism, to highlight its resemblance to racism.
It is only a matter of time – of overcoming habit, prejudice, and inertia – before what is accepted in principle becomes practice.
Elsewhere - including Europe and the United States - anti-Semitism survives among a fringe of neo-Nazis and renegades like Ellwanger, but also, more widely, in milder forms of prejudice.
In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.
When officers are required to articulate grounds for suspicion, they are more likely to rely on behavioral factors rather than prejudice.
People are upset that – because of prejudice and abuse – the system is failing to deliver what it promises, even to people with many years of schooling who exert themselves day in and day out.
First, we need to adopt a public health model for prevention of violence, spouse abuse, bullying, prejudice, and more that identifies vectors of social disease to be inoculated against.
Such prejudice and shortsightedness with respect to European security cooperation is not new.
In some ways, “they” are our own buried past and, with a combination of ignorance, prejudice, and, above all, fear, “we” are afraid that “they” could define our future.
Acquiescence in heavily bankrolled, fearsome prejudice has left the rational and electable parts of the Republican Party in moral and political ruin.
Contrary to popular prejudice, local governments and public agencies do innovate; what is missing is a mechanism to select and disseminate innovations in the same way the market selects new products or cost-saving processes.
These journalists’ self-interested prejudice against a medium in which they are not the gatekeepers prevents them from conceding that Assange is a publisher, rather than some sort of hybrid terrorist blogger.
Global companies wish to do business worldwide, eroding not just sovereignty, but also racism and prejudice, as well as significantly weakening nationalism.
Then, once the pseudo-rational economic justification for opposing labor migration is addressed, the prejudice that underlies it can be dealt with directly.
As a result, “the opinion entertained by the laboring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests, is not founded on prejudice and error, but is conformable to the correct principles of political economy.”
Formulating public policy towards science and technology may be difficult, but if democracy is to take public opinion appropriately into account, good government must discount ignorance and prejudice.
Traces of this prejudice can still be found in some opponents of the European Union, who see the EU’s Brussels headquarters as the new Rome.
The American civil-rights struggle that reached its height in the 1960s fought racial prejudice and discrimination at home and opposed colonialism abroad.
And it is probably impossible for a former dictator’s victims to judge him without prejudice.
But the bigger obstacle is religious and cultural prejudice.
It is always risky to speculate about hidden motives; nevertheless, systematic disparagement of Israeli society and culture undoubtedly encourages the sense that anti-Semitism, too, is a permitted prejudice.
It is always easier to see a group or nation as a malevolent “Other” when this impulse is fed by an old, and still potent, prejudice.
The absence of direct experience with people of a different culture, race, or religion leaves space for prejudice, myths, and dark rumors, reinforced by the apocalyptic rendering of the tabloid media.
Throngs of Chinese expatriates and students took to the streets, protesting the prejudice they perceived in Western media reports.
As the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States demonstrated, voters are too easily fooled by prejudice and false promises.
That it is prejudice, not reason or insight, that underpins Huntington's thesis becomes clear in his discussion of Islam, "the only civilization which has put in doubt the survival of the West, even twice."
Huntington's ideas should be welcomed as a powerful reminder to beware false prophets who appeal to prejudice, not reason, and who offer a gilded path through uncertainty.
The Euro was not a politically expensive step to take, except in Germany where it ran into every sort of prejudice.
In the election of an African-American president less than a half-century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America’s legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.
Inexorably, racial prejudice creeps in.
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