Sentences with phrase «from prejudice against»

This distinction is significant because, although the Blaine Amendments appear to stem from prejudice against Catholic immigrants, none of the amendments actually mention the Catholic faith or any tradition or denomination in particular.

The Becket Fund claims that the Blaine Amendments are unconstitutional because their creation stemmed from prejudice against Catholicism.

Not exact matches

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

Accused of being «biased and prejudiced against single sex adopters», Mr Page was sacked from the Magistracy by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice, for serious misconduct.

The WEA plans to «help and train our people to overcome prejudices against other Christian traditions and not to confuse things from the past with present realities,» secretary general Efraim Tendero said.

By its general permissiveness concerning theology, AA is able to help countless alcoholics whose prejudices against overt religion would keep them from identifying with a more orthodox approach.

In their reaction against scientific scepticism, and scientific generalisation which were as sweeping and as prejudiced as any theological temerity, they failed to distinguish the root causes of the new unbelief from the arrogance of the unbelievers, and met with equal contempt and malediction what could only be properly answered by the careful separation of fact frompresumption and prejudice on either side.

The judge should be dismissed from the bench and the case should be relooked at since the judge acted with prejudice against the victim.

«Holmes» influence promised, then, to help release American culture from a Christian bias that most Jewish intellectuals found provincial at best and that at worst provided a basis for continued prejudice against Jews and other non-Christians.»

The burden of proving guilt «beyond a reasonable doubt» is far from absolute as a protection against the accidents of incriminating circumstance, the political ambitions of some prosecutors, the potential for framed evidence, the passions of communities, and the prejudices and limitations of jurors, judges and prosecutors alike.

But because the couple are from the minority Parsi community - part of the Zoroastrian religion, a minority faith founded in ancient Persia - their fate highlights, some say, how prejudice against outsiders in Balochistan makes them easy targets for increasingly powerful criminal gangs.

This has lead to prejudice, oppression, exclusion, and an alarming rate of violence committed against and suicide from within this group.

You are trying to move them from that fear, anxiety, anger, and intensity — prejudice — to simply believing that the Bible absolutely condemns gay sex as sin, that gay Christians need to be celibate to avoid hell, and to only discriminating against those who choose to actually have sex.

Consider how Martin Buber's studies of Hasidism evoked rather good feelings from well - educated, middle - class Jews toward the Hasidic tradition (relieving the prejudice that the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, had raised against the Hasidim) Consider also that very few of these folk seriously contemplated taking up a Hasidic lifestyle.

However even though that honey cake would be a perfectly great dessert on its own I find that people's prejudices against honey cake keep them from even trying a piece, and I always have a ton left over.

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The fear is Kippers under new tutelage will turn up the anti-migrant volume from prejudiced to outright racist against a backing track of betrayal by Traitorous Theresa.

SERAP argues that the public interest in publishing the names of the high - ranking government officials from whom funds were received outweighs any considerations to withhold the information, as there would be no prejudice against those whose names are published as long as the information is appropriately framed and truthful.»

Whilst many SACREs recognise this and benefit greatly from the input of humanist representatives — I was formerly the chair and a full member of Westminster SACRE — others still display an archaic prejudice against those with non-religious beliefs.

The stigma associated with prejudice against women and people of color seems to transfer from one group to another, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

Harteveld also discovered that men are less deterred by being associated with prejudice and that they stand to benefit more from the protection against globalisation offered by some radical right - wing parties.

From Experiments and Observations Upon Oriental and Other Bezoar - stones, etc. etc... A Vindication of Sugars Against the Charge of Dr. Willis, Other Physicians, and Common Prejudices, by Dr. Frederick Slare (1715) From The London Practice of Physic, for the Use of Physicians and Younger Practitioners (1769 edition)

I was going to respond to a post last nite from a new blogger about S A prejudice against black sugar babies... but the post mysteriously disappeared.

h The distance from the Heightism is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height.

For example, it's obvious that at some point the scales will fall from the eyes of the Washington character, and he'll realize that his prejudices against homosexuals are wrong; he'll be able to see the Hanks character as a fellow human worthy of affection and respect.

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The sharp segregation of these groups from mainstream opportunity limits their chances for social mobility and encourages prejudice against them.

The lessons focus on not just the obvious things like how bullying is wrong, but why people do it, the different ways people discriminate against each other, where misconceptions about difference originate from and how people have overcome prejudice and adversity.

Senator Ed Muskie from Maine was the party establishment's choice, but his campaign fizzled when a supposedly forged letter to the Manchester Union Leader claimed that he was prejudiced against Americans of French - Canadian descent.

Given that fantasy is one of the most popular genres, I just don't see where the prejudice against fantasy writers comes from

Vinjamuri believes that the prejudice of traditionally published authors against indie authors results from the former's adherence to a blind - and largely misplaced - faith in the system.

She is of course prejudice against Kuu just because of her accent and tries to woo Wakaba away from her.

The California State Legislature, seemingly with a well - meaning, but uninformed prejudice against legally operating business owners, are stomping on the Justice's grave as they march toward passing a bill which would ban pet stores from selling puppies bred by inspected and licensed breeders and forcing them to sell dogs with unknown backgrounds, temperament and health histories.

However, she was unable to complete her degree because prejudice against Japanese Americans prevented her from getting the classroom teaching hours that were required.

Susan Landauer, the author of «The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism» and the chief curator for the San Jose Museum of Art, said that although she excluded Kasten from her book because of an unfounded prejudice against the Berkeley School, she would certainly add his name to any subsequent editions.

Even as the American art world shifted away from representational art in the 1940s and»50s, the academy remained deeply prejudiced against abstraction.

A biased point of view, a dogmatic and prejudiced point of view against the sensual in favor of the cerebral, partially borne from an Oedipal, almost pathological, response to Clement Greenberg.

But if we dismiss from our minds the modern prejudice against pictures with a «purpose», we must admit that Watts clothed his ideas in large and dignified forms, which, impressive in themselves, are an appropriate vehicle for their moral content.

It is not because people are prejudiced against new ideas that this is needed, but rather it is to distinguish strongly held opinions (of which there are many) from scientifically supported theories (of which there are few).

«This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.»

That whole issue seemed political, where people were using the political process to coerce property owners (bars, restaurants, etc.) into enacting their preferred comfort and lifestyle settings, and using the machinery of the state to enforce various prejudices against smokers, who are now corralled into holding pens hundreds of feet from building entrances.»

Keeping the full range of its FRAND defenses alive against Google's Motorola Mobility even though its FRAND contract claims and estoppel theories temporarily (based on the aforementioned minute order) appeared to have been dismissed with prejudice, is a noteworthy success for Apple's outside counsel from three firms (Covington & Burling, Tensegrity Law Group, and Wisconsin - based CETRA).

We hope to push our community towards equity and inclusion so that the community of scientists more closely matches the makeup of humankind, because the process of scientific discovery is a human endeavor that benefits from removing prejudice against any race, ethnicity, or gender.

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Securing a preliminary injunction on behalf of the City of Philadelphia against another governmental agency from carrying out discriminatory elements of a fare plan and the denial of preliminary injunction in a civil rights suit, which was dismissed with prejudice, alleging racial discrimination in the implementation of certain regulations of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code.

This conclusion is further supported by... the witnesses» evidence, found, inter alia, that «One of the effects of criminal sanctions against homosexual acts is to reinforce the misapprehension and general prejudice of the public and increase the anxiety and guilt feelings of homosexuals leading, on occasions, to depression and the serious consequences which can follow from that unfortunate disease.»

Soros opines that exposure to the criminal justice system is potentially more detrimental to a young person than marijuana itself, that enforcing marijuana laws costs taxpayers billions while benefiting only foreign drug kingpins, and that laws against marijuana, from their inception, have been motivated by racial prejudice.

I am of opinion that in this jurisdiction a party to a correspondence within the «without prejudice» privilege is, generally speaking, protected from being required to disclose it on discovery or at trial in proceedings by or against the third party.

After the police released the appellant from arrest without charge, two newspapers applied to lift a Crown Court order postponing his identification in contemporaneous reports of the criminal trial on the ground that there were now no «pending or imminent» proceedings against the appellant that might be prejudiced by publication.