Sentences with phrase «between noble birth»

In many of the societies where a large number of scary beliefs about birth came from there was a difference between noble birth and peasants.

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[First category:] Characteristics such as race, caste, noble birth, membership of a political party and gender, are seldom, if ever, acceptable grounds for differences in treatment... But [second category:] the Strasbourg court has given it a wide interpretation [to Art 14], approaching that of the 14th Amendment, and it is therefore necessary, as in the United States, to distinguish between those grounds of discrimination which prima facie appear to off end our notions of the respect due to the individual and those which merely require some rational justification.»
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