Favoritism means showing preference or special treatment towards someone or something, often unfairly.
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Fox describes that the court found it was not reasonable to assume that an investigation of such a charge
of favoritism of «good old boys» would encompass a disparate impact issues as well as disparate treatment.
If one dealership has submitted your auto loan for approval and the lender has turned down that loan they will not approve that loan for a different dealership for fear of
showing favoritism from one dealer to the next.
The latter proposal was not reported on and will, if acted upon by the Town Board, bring positive reform in line with democratic principles, one being the hiring of qualified assessors from a civil service list and not getting assessors through the political parties and election process thereby eliminationg the perception of
favoritism in the assessment system.
They may show
favoritism for a certain toy or lovie and become insulted when you offer them a toy that is not the «toy du jour».
Similar to state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Williams also said that candidates» newfound MTS opposition deals with political
favoritism toward the wealthy.
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee is investigating allegations that the former U.S. Attorney for Washington, Joseph diGenova, engaged in
political favoritism by quashing a criminal case his office was pursuing against Madeleine C. Will, the Education Department's assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services.
Joanne McCall, President of the Florida Education Association, calls the move another sign of
favoritism towards private and charter schools.
However, no studies to date have followed the same siblings across developmental periods to explore whether perceptions of differentiation are stable and whether perceptions of
favoritism from earlier periods affect later sibling relations.
Could be he was looking to discuss some unresolved issues from his childhood, a memory where Jim was shown
favoritism by their parents making John feel like nothing he did would ever be good enough.
My main peeve with the dude is his team selection
with favoritism towards certain under performing players such as Jack to the detriment of the rest of the squad.
Last, we propose that the role of perceptions of
maternal favoritism on sibling closeness will vary by gender.
To counter
perceived favoritism toward the medium of painting at the expense of sculpture in the marketplace and in critical discourse, this entertaining show intends to even the score.
The quality of the team performance in recent past is largely due to level play ground that earn the players playing chance as
against favoritism in the old past where if a player is doing well or otherwise they have an automatic call up against over other ones that are in form Ramsey so to speak.
This freedom allows Insurance Brokers work for you
without favoritism towards any one company.
«Teachers are afraid that some behavior - management techniques will be perceived
as favoritism,» Frazier told Education World.
came with potential n still are said to have potential while their agemates are winning trophies n big salaries n ask Podolski, Rosiscky Frimpong n others
about favoritism..
Their lifelong interest, after all, had been to promote deregulation and special
tax favoritism for their Wall Street constituency, highlighted by repeal of Glass - Steagall in 1999 under Pres. Clinton.
in light of the» so called» presidents»
blatant favoritism towards Big Oil kind of begs the question..
So, the Boston Tea Party was a protest against
government favoritism toward big companies that harmed small business and workers.
Mutual fund trustees may
display favoritism toward funds from their own firms, said researchers at Indiana University at Bloomington.
Jealousy would prevail and the family structure would be exposed to disintegration
if favoritism were allowed among heirs of equal standing.
Thus for a wide array of managerial tasks — from hiring, firing, and promoting to contracting services and forming partnerships — qualified minority candidates are subtly and unconsciously discriminated against, sometimes simply because they are in the minority: There are not enough of them to counter the propensity for in -
group favoritism in the majority.
First, based on theories of similarity, we hypothesized that adult children would feel the most emotional closeness toward siblings whom they perceived as sharing their maternal
favoritism status.
I don't think it's fair though to say that Mesut is on the
same favoritism level as Ramsey and Jack.
«This had a strong effect on new hires,» he said, «but only a limited impact on
favoritism over the whole university system.»
Avoid favoritism when passing out treats, and give your pets their own food bowls as well as plenty of space for each dog.
If i am to be completely honest and put
favoritism aside Mandzukic is a cut above Giroud.
Arsene may be guilty of some things,
like favoritism for example, but he's not the reason why we are where we are at the moment.
Because, a perfect and loving God would exhibit
favoritism among his equal creations?
Lawyers for the man accused of killing 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School asked the judge overseeing his murder case to step aside late Friday, arguing that she has already shown too
much favoritism toward prosecutors.
To create the perceived maternal
favoritism measure, we combined adult children's responses to two questions: (a) «To which child in your family is your mother the most emotionally close?»
Based on theories of influential members in social networks, we posed the alternative hypothesis that respondents would choose siblings whom they perceived as favored by their mothers, regardless of the respondent's
own favoritism status.
-- the book of Genesis has as it's theme God's sovereign election (you
call favoritism).
Finally, a write - in field for other responses answers Having worked in the litigation industry for more than 20 years and
seeing favoritism trump skill plenty of times, I expected some cynicism to show through in the answers provided.
The court summarized these cases saying, «If sexual
favoritism does not constitute gender discrimination, treating an employee unfavorably because of such a relationship does not violate the law either.»
God's FIRST Covenant with man was with the «Chosen People» — So, you'd have us believe that God created all living things on this planet, but still
exhibited favoritism for a particular tribe of those creations?
Separation of church and state was unthinkable, but they did think the power of the state could be withheld from
religious favoritism.
It then goes on to list a variety of ways in which believers might typically display
such favoritism.
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