Use "prejudice" in a sentence

1. And then, when your ancestors coded and catalogued us, when they marked us out as a lesser breed, even then we stood the prejudices and the spite

2. A person obsessed with the vindication of insanely held ideas or prejudices will often select the convenient surrogate for venting their tensions of the built up frustration

3. of reason The interests, prejudices, laws, and customs, which have given occasion to it, I shall

4. prejudices are still lying just below the surface – I can still

5. prejudices, among of which the moral ones being not at

6. Guard yourself against prejudices while keeping in mind that every part of this creation contains good and bad

7. The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation

8. Not only the prejudices of the public, but, what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it

9. “Perhaps you did not hear me…I came over to inquire about your admitted prejudices

10. She had the same prejudices and 'reasonable' exceptions to her inherent and trained cultural biases as any other living woman

11. The prejudices established by the commercial system have taught us to believe, that national wealth arises more immediately from exportation than from production

12. This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices

13. The people feel themselves so much interested in what relates either to their subsistence in this life, or to their happiness in a life to come, that government must yield to their prejudices, and, in order to preserve the public tranquillity, establish that system which they approve of

14. With all its imperfections, however, we may perhaps say of it what was said of the laws of Solon, that though not the best in itself, it is the best which the interest, prejudices, and temper of the times, would admit of

15. But as the law for the encouragement of coinage derives its origin from those vulgar prejudices which have been introduced by the mercantile system, I judged it more proper to reserve them for this chapter

16. Domingo, therefore, was represented as a country abounding with gold, and upon that account (according to the prejudices not only of the present times, but of those times), an inexhaustible source of real wealth to the crown and kingdom of Spain

17. The principal, perhaps, arise, not from the nature of things, but from the prejudices and opinions of the people, both on this and on the other side of the Atlantic

18. He dumped my mother when I was a kid because of the Military prejudices against Latinos

19. That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere

20. The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain, for a long time, the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter and protection, after they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world

21. He does not even despise the prejudices of people who are disposed to be so favourable to him, and never treats them with those contemptuous and arrogant airs, which we so often meet with in the proud dignitaries of opulent and well endowed churches

22. The private interest of many powerful individuals, the confirmed prejudices of great bodies of people, seem, indeed, at present, to oppose to so great a change, such obstacles as it may be very difficult, perhaps altogether impossible, to surmount

23. By a union with Great Britain, the greater part of people of all ranks in Ireland would gain an equally complete deliverance from a much more oppressive aristocracy ; an aristocracy not founded, like that of Scotland, in the natural and respectable distinctions of birth and fortune, but in the most odious of all distinctions, those of religious and political prejudices; distinctions which, more than any other, animate both the insolence of the oppressors, and the hatred and indignation of the oppressed, and which commonly render the inhabitants of the same country more hostile to one another than those of different countries ever are

24. ‘It’s clear to you and to me,’ Jerand said, ‘but people believe in what they’re told if it fits with their own prejudices

25. Inherent in the selection process is a disturbing tendency common among most attorneys of ―nullifying‖ clear-minded, informed individuals in favor of unsophisticated, impressionable types who may otherwise render a ―favorable‖ verdict predicated upon individual biases and pedestrian prejudices likely to promote the arguments of prosecutors and defense attorneys alike

26. Government resolutions, requiring ratification by nine of the thirteen states, were, because of hardboiled regional rivalries and parochial prejudices, virtually impossible to adopt

27. In this manner, contemporary biases and prejudices will (often) cause that individual (or that society, for that matter) to misread or misinterpret the historical significance or social ramifications of that (current) event or misjudge its future implications as it relates to (race relations)

28. It would seem that such ―unknowns‖ or perhaps distortions or what the eye doesn‘t ―really‖ see are merely conveniences designed to support our (own) private prejudices or impressions under assault by the mind‘s eye

29. This in addition to liberal judges who have routinely used the bench to advance their own private prejudices without the formal consent of the governed; by judicial fiat and questionable constitutional interpretations conforming to their world views

30. All things are accepted so there is no prejudices against gays as there might be elsewhere

31. To have biases and prejudices towards other people

32. To get the possible accusations of anti-Semitism out of the way ASAP, let’s just say that Mathews House had a large number of Jewish guys from NYC with very sarcastic tongues and prejudices of their own, their never having met up close and personal a live descendant of the Sons of the Confederacy

33. “There will be drastic changes everywhere after this day! All of you have sworn to justice upon The Truthstone of Falgaroth! Now your concept of justice will be that of Falgaroth, and you will be unable to sustain the old hatreds and prejudices that have been handed down to you for generations! When you return home to your nations, every act of cruelty and injustice that was previously tolerated or unnoticed will stand out and offend you! And an alliance of us all will be so strong that not even the demon-spawn on Serminak will be foolish enough to attack us! Though they cannot be turned to the light, they will be contained by the might of our alliance! Peace may cease to be merely the time between wars! Peace may finally become the universal state of life on Kellaran!”

34. I’m in college to learn, not rebel, for I have begun to realize that the truly educated man has very few prejudices

35. This has shown him his own prejudices too

36. Would it be able to convert the vanity, fear, weakness, ambition, petty prejudices and other useless imperfections of the human spirit into motivated, dedicated Primagnon’s? And would the conversion of this group lead to the modification of the majority of the rest of the world? And would there be time to complete their work before it was too late?

37. Always a fighter she had battled against male prejudices in the University for many years until a brilliant work on monoclonal antibodies had given her the world recognition which had clinched the job as Head of the School

38. If teachers would teach their students the basics of their own religions and not infuse their young minds with prejudices, this world would be a much nicer place

39. Trent Miller’s interview was very useful in terms of getting a fix on Bob Nakamura’s personality and possible prejudices

40. He is intolerant, narrow minded and has deep prejudices

41. The only remaining member of that is Lance, who has absorbed the old man’s prejudices

42. He knew they weren’t underage, and didn’t care how they got their thrills, but he was too old to change prejudices

43. But Nathaniel was inclined to go to extremes with his personal prejudices

44. Judas was never able to rise above his Judean prejudices against his Galilean associates; he would even criticize in his mind many things about Jesus

45. In that he saw a literary conspiracy — inducing Indian writers in English into churning out self-deprecating stuff to cater to the prejudices of the Western readers

46. " But in the year and more they had been with Jesus, they had developed a form of personal loyalty which transcended even their faith in his teachings and their prejudices against the Samaritans

47. He was free from religious prejudices; he was never intolerant

48. 13 The Master was admired by all who met him except by those who entertained deep-seated religious prejudices or those who thought they discerned political dangers in his teachings

49. Our life is made of bricks of daily events full of gestures, desires, dreams, intentions, voluntary acts, revelations, prejudices, reasoning and a quest for travelling companions

50. Likewise, when the acknowledgment of our difficulties entails the reduction of our long-cherished conceit, the admission of envy, or the abandonment of deep-seated prejudices, the average person prefers to cling to the old illusions of safety and to the long-cherished false feelings of security

51. 8 The wise and effective solution of any problem demands that the mind shall be free from bias, passion, and all other purely personal prejudices which might interfere with the disinterested survey of the actual factors that go to make up the problem presenting itself for solution

52. She saw him as an ally who understood the unfairness and prejudices of the school system

53. surface of racial tensions and prejudices? Have they

54. ” I thought: in a thousand years, when all your prejudices have faded

55. And, instead of being repulsed, she began, in spite of her prejudices, to imagine their lovemaking in greater detail

56. Screw Walt and his stupid prejudices

57. The bad news is that your thinking brain has its own prejudices and mental

58. 4 With other reformers, the Protestant church leader preserved the class structures and prejudices from the Medieval Roman Catholic system

59. These prejudices and power struggles laid the ground work for white church leaders to eventually allow the cruelest form of slave trading by Britain

60. 5 Also, Christian reformers’ prejudices laid the groundwork for cruel spiritual slavery as well

61. Sheppard, and the few middle-class African Americans who also went to the field, endured prejudices at home that no white missionary faced

62. With Úrsula’s death the house again fell into a neglect from which it could not be rescued even by a will as resolute and vigorous as that of Amaranta Úrsula, who many years later, being a happy, modern woman without prejudices, with her feet on the ground, opened doors and windows in order to drive away the rain, restored the garden, exterminated the red ants who were already walking across the porch in broad daylight, and tried in vain to reawaken the forgotten spirit of hospitality

63. Maria then felt as well sadness come to her as Maryam left the small office: it was a cruel end for the dreams of a young and brave young woman who had gone against the prejudices of most of her compatriots in order to serve her country

64. As Americans, we have prejudices about other

65. Though her husband was rather a conceited buffoon, she was very charming, genuine, and gracious, much like an innocent child who had no suspicions or prejudices in the world

66. His initial misgivings and prejudices about having a bunch of young women coming to Guadalcanal were starting to evaporate as he could watch that female unit at work around him and as he spoke with their leader

67. By going against the strongest prejudices held by his countrymen, Sikorski showed he was not afraid of being unpopular

68. I thus put my career as a military pilot first, with the hope that our nation will one day abandon the social and racial prejudices that are poisoning it

69. Although I adhered to little of the particulars of the Jewish religion, I did follow, to my shame, the prejudices taught to me from my youth

70. Dewey stared at Dulles for a moment, bitterly disappointed to realize how much his own Secretary of State was blinded by his prejudices

71. lie, those prejudices and fears and expectations that describe our world

72. we try to use that idea to lend support to the stereotypes and prejudices

73. Female air units were still segregated by sex, but at least some of the prejudices and bias they had to face at first had gone in light of their outstanding service in combat

74. creatures of emotion, bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity

75. Another way of saying this is, you must become aware of your own prejudices and taken-for-granted assumptions, since it is your own images and expectations which blind you to the truth – that you yourself are the one who is creating your reality

76. In effect our mass generalisations become prejudices

77. Rarely do we stop to question our prejudices and assumption, let alone our belief systems

78. They hide their aversion behind carefully formulated prejudices

79. He might have reasoned with himself that he stood alone, that he was a Jew by birth, that he was a stranger in a strange land,�that he had to oppose the rooted prejudices and old associations of learned men, that to attack the old religion of a whole city was to beard a lion in his den, that the doctrines of the gospel were little likely to be effective on minds steeped in Greek philosophy

80. There is room enough for all in this world and in the Church, if only we could let go of our prejudices and our egos

81. We have to fend for ourselves in the pathless woods of personal prejudices

82. Maybe, this clarity coupled with the egalitarian concept of its teachings could have led to the conversion of those Indian masses who were either unable to comprehend the precepts of the Hindu dharma or those oppressed by the prejudices of the caste order

83. ‘Whatever it is,’ said Chandrika spiritedly, ‘let’s see what serves her interests and not which suits your prejudices

84. “I’ll play my part in my village with what is left of my money; besides as life there is vitiated by caste prejudices and beset by religious superstitions, I shall try to open the village minds to rational thinking

85. That these valiant men, who staked their lives in guarding their ancient land from falling into the alien hands, were not readmitted into the parent fold even after their release by, or escape from, their captors for their association with the mlechhas, their enforced confinement occasioned! And those valiant men, rendered hapless by the prejudices of the Brahmans, had nowhere else to go in their own land but to the Islamic camp

86. So, by and large, this parochial policy of the alien rulers precluded the possibility of the native eminence to embrace Islam even for their self-promotion, and thus, the nepotism of the Musalmans and the prejudices of the caste Hindus led to a lopsided Islamic growth on the caste fringes, save some sections of the vaisyas, of the Indian social setting

87. But the bane of the closed Islamic societies is that there cannot be any contrary view of life than the pro Quran-hadith-sunna dogma, as all the Musalmans share common beliefs and imbibe the same prejudices

88. What with the deprived social patronage adding to their economic woes, they became moribund to end up being the parasites and it is probable that the prejudices that bedevil the Hindu spirituality might have been the products of the idle minds in those lazy Brahman bodies

89. Exposed to the liberal ideas that held sway all over the world during the sixties of the last century, the Brahmans in towns began distancing themselves from the orthodox ways and the social prejudices of their forefathers

90. Moreover, even as the modern economy occasioned a fusion of the four varnas that helped the once segregated Hindu society shed part of its past caste prejudices, thanks to Gandhi’s crusade for their uplift, finally the harijans, nay dalits, too began to get under the shade of the Hindu urban socio-religious umbrella

91. At one moment navigating on mystical terrain, at another on the philosophical level, they are impossible to pin down, never on the same wavelength as a reader free of prejudices or conviction and determined on a real reading of the text

92. He was a vehicle of prejudices and a weapon against Christianity

93. The experience of living with Asians affects your life in the smell of it, the noise of it and the color of it hard to be living there and be above prejudices

94. Braithwaite brings us the message that prejudices and injustices

95. ease, he rises generously above all the prejudices that Braithwaite

96. Revealing your own self removes fears and prejudices

97. Moreover, those of the readers who reach out to people via mass media platforms, such as books (fiction or non-fiction), radio broadcasts, films, articles in newspapers, magazines or online portals, or the likes, can incorporate these contentions so as to dispel the prejudices enumerated in the book (it is necessary to specifically bring out the prejudiced notions and have them rebutted on the basis of facts and logic as has been done in this book; it is not sufficient to just have a Muslim character in a story who is a nice person from the point of view of changing mindsets of those strongly prejudiced against Muslims)

98. Then, there are those with genuine prejudices too, and these had much to do with the denunciations of Islam that were carried out in Europe during the Crusades, which passed on from generation to generation, and Karen Armstrong has written on the same in her very balanced biography of Prophet Muhammad, in which she has also critiqued the prophet on some points, and as a reviewer has put it, she has been “respectful but not reverential”

99. In spite of my being strongly opposed to anti-Muslim prejudices, as this book in the hands of the reader clearly illustrates, it must be stated that Shourie’s scholastic effort when it comes to the regressive fatwas (though not his opinion in terms of whether they are truly in the spirit of the faith) must be lauded