Sentences with phrase «held prejudice»

Plus the landlord is in a different city, and I can show he has held prejudice against me, and would not know I was the only one home.

Yet they're all subject to this widely held prejudice, one based on the fact that substance abuse is a failure of character and not the result of aberrant neurotransmission.

Fortunately, the long - held prejudice against digital magazines is being alleviated by publishers such as Time, Inc., as they begin to offer genuine pricing on subscription models.

After seeing the light about tomatoes, I have been systematically trying the foods I held a prejudice against, trying to present them in -LSB-...]

It is our experience that, contrary to widely held prejudice, Church teaching sheds a truly compassionate light on the complexities and tragedies of people's lives.

You will be the one blotted out, you have been shown the truth today about gay people yet you still hold prejudice in your heart.

Many times, when people of faith are challenged about their anti-gay views, they cite biblical verses or other religious texts as a safe haven when they are unable to articulate why they hold prejudiced atudes toward LGBT people.

This perception, which the researchers term «religious threat,» leads people to feel socially isolated, be less comfortable sharing their religion with others and to be more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes towards others.

Mark Lynas, a former anti-GMO activist who now considers GMO fears a «conspiracy theory,» notes that GMO opponents use the same rhetorical tactics beloved of climate deniers: cherry - picking evidence, emphasizing a few dissenting «experts» over the scientific consensus, and attempting to «capture and control the public - policy agenda to enforce its long - held prejudices.»

Ofsted said the curriculum at the Christian secondary school, which currently has 94 pupils in Years 7 and 8, was «too narrow» and many pupils held prejudiced views of others which were not challenged by staff.

The inspectors said some pupils held prejudiced views of other faiths which were not being challenged by the school.

If you hold prejudices that dictate what a truck's nationality should be (this one's built in Alabama, by the way), or how it should be made, or what it should look like, un-truck yourself.

If you hold prejudices that dictate what a truck's nationality should be — this one's built in Alabama, by the way — or how it should be made or what it should look like, un-truck yourself.

Any investment made or not made because you hold a prejudice is as dangerous as an investment made without proper knowledge.

Jinns have captured the imagination of followers of Christianity, Islam, and Judiasm alike; their characteristics often corresponding to wider - held prejudices that encourage ethnic, racial, or religious rifts.

Public stigma is based on deeply held prejudices that are resistant to change.

While many non-Indigenous people had no difficulty accepting that past policies and practices which removed Indigenous children from their families were racist, it seems that the issue of compensation taps into more deeply held prejudices about Indigenous people.

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Sociologists and psychologists hold that some of the emotionality in prejudice stems from subconscious attitudes that cause a person to ward off feelings of inadequacy by projecting them onto a target group.

It's not supposed to be a container to hold all our prejudices, hatreds fears of others.

I may not hold them responsible for any opinion expressed in this book, but to their criticism and guidance I am unpayably indebted and only because of it dare hope that I have presented without undue distortion or prejudice a picture of the major trends of thought in the Jewish - Christian scriptures.

No moron, they have been educated on the real truth about the gay community and don't hold onto their unjustified prejudices like you.

Whenever its the gay issue - all you see is ignorant Christians holding tight to their prejudices - why is it so hard to find a christian these days espousing any principle that is christlike - I was raised in evangelical christianity - and still hold on to some great teachings - but division, non unity, non acceptance and certainly denial of the creative nature of God is NOT christ - like.

The original review found that its conclusions held «regardless of when the studies were conducted, from whom the data came, the region where the data were collected, or the type of prejudice studied.»

So great is the hold of race prejudice on men's minds that it must be counteracted by something powerful and revolutionary.

I agree with H. G. Wells that race prejudice «justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.»

The two - who hold high religious positions in the Muslim community - were headed to North Carolina for a conference on prejudice against Muslims, or Islamaphobia.

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Charles Hartshorne says that the notion that God is more perfect the more completely he is removed from change, time, and risk, is a prejudice which simply contradicts our experience of human love.13 What we have to look for is some explanation of why the tradition that perfect love is beyond suffering has such a powerful hold.

At first the inveterate prejudice of the nomad against the agriculturist held its ground.

As you are held to account to prove your assertions and god driven prejudices you hold i can cl; early understand your anger.

Came final exam time, I tested how well these testings of student prejudices by primary sources had taken hold.

christians crying because they're being held accountable for their prejudices.

if you spew hatred and prejudice, you will be held accountable.

They also hold onto to too many stereotypes and prejudices on certain things (i.e. height) that don't fit their mold.

There does seem to be an inherent prejudice against the cafeteria and I think I held it, too, when I first got into this issue.

It can trigger similar conversations about diversity, prejudice, standards of beauty, etc, all of which are important topics for adoptive families to hold on a regular basis.

Mr Grieve warned holding terror suspects for prolonged periods encouraged media speculation and risked prejudicing a future trial.

This brand of thinking contends that openly discussing the existence of racial prejudices, either held by individuals or embedded in institutions, is itself a form of racism.

Plenty of higher caste Indians in the UK hold and enforce their prejudice against lower castes on a daily basis.

Lynton Crosby is the manipulator with the Midas touch, who has a reputation for tapping into those ideas and prejudices that coarsen public life but are seemingly widely held and a ballot - box boon.

They are also the most likely to report racial discrimination and feel that non whites in the UK are held back by prejudice.

He also admits an unabashed prejudice for Buffalo and a notion that he might return to Buffalo to run for the congressional seat held by Jack Kemp.

In an online article for the i newspaper, Laws said: «You can not be a leader of a liberal party while holding fundamentally illiberal and prejudiced views, which fail to respect our party's great traditions of promoting equality for all our citizens.

Democrats are running some old white guy for Mayor??? You know what kind of prejudices those type of people hold right?

In an echo of the five «giant evils» identified by William Beveridge in the 1940s, Mr Corbyn said: «Today what is holding people back above all are inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination.

Compared with anti-woman sexism or misandry (hatred or fear of, or strong prejudice against men), misogyny is usually regarded as directed against women by some men, though women can also hold misogynistic views.

Even with that new data, however, Kirshner and his fellow scientists, supposedly the most dispassionate of observers, had to struggle to loosen the hold of old prejudices.

Although EliteSingles has helped many online daters meet singles they are compatible with, our site is not safe from the prejudices that are still held by some people in regards to the legitimacy and efficiency of online dating sites.

Moreover, relationship commentators have argued that females date black guys to rebel against the ancient prejudice held by whites who despise the blacks as they were once slaves in the US.

But no matter how you want to justify that belief, that prejudice really can't hold water in Romania.