Sentences with word «invidious»

We expect most lawyers are sympathetic with the general goals of ensuring equal access to justice and eliminating racial and other forms of invidious discrimination from the legal profession.

When a judge determines that an organization to which the judge belongs engages in invidious discrimination that would preclude membership under Canon 2C or under Canons 2 and 2A, the judge is permitted, in lieu of resigning, to make immediate and continuous efforts to have the organization discontinue its invidiously discriminatory practices.

The idea that she was making invidious comparisons between her work and Talmon's is ludicrous on the face of it.

The report recommends that universities should link work experience opportunities with the curriculum as far as possible, «so that students do not have to make invidious choices between getting relevant experience, their studies and working in order to fund their education.»

In addition, it would be a violation of Canons 2 and 2A for a judge to arrange a meeting at a club that the judge knows practices invidious discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin in its membership or other policies, or for the judge to use such a club regularly.

But an overview of the matter is that the original Indian Act was grossly discriminatory against women; in 1985 amendments were introduced to make the Act comply with the Charter; they eliminated discrimination on the basis of gender prospectively, however, leaving invidious distinctions in place where they were based on events occurring prior to the 1985 amendments.

Isn't selecting a spouse on the basis of religion as invidious as doing so on the basis of race?

If you look at opinion polls what you find is that older voters like it, and particularly older voters who remember grammar schools in the old way like it, but parents who actually have to make invidious choices about where to send their children hate it.»

The use of algorithms and the reliance on a behemoth as our main distributor has its own invidious effect on speech.

According to JUSTICE STEVENS, our view of consistency «equate [s] remedial preferences with invidious discrimination,» post, at 246, and ignores the difference between «an engine of oppression» and an effort «to foster equality in society,» or, more colorfully, «between a «No Trespassing» sign and a welcome mat,» post, at 243, 245.

In January, a three - judge federal district court panel in North Carolina struck down that state's congressional redistricting plan because it was drawn by Republicans «motivated by invidious partisan intent,» according to the opinion.

Persons with disabilities have too often been excluded from the labour force, denied access to opportunities for social interaction and advancement, subjected to invidious stereotyping and relegated to institutions; see generally M. David Lepofsky, «A Report Card on the Charter's Guarantee of Equality to Persons with Disabilities after 10 Years — What Progress?

An ardent admirer of the Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, and Carthusians, he shied away from invidious comparisons between Jesuits and other religious orders.

How many equally invidious experiments of this sort are now ongoing — and how many are federally funded?

Words like rigor, choice, ability, diversity and intelligence are exposed as codes that legitimate «more invidious ways of sorting by race and class.»

Too many lawyers harms the public in overt and invidious ways, but the harms differ on the solicitor side and the barrister side.

Nevertheless, recent developments in the scientific culture, especially as we see them reported in books like James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science, suggest that Snow's greatest mistake was his failure to take into account the extent to which the literature of science is literature itself, which has all along anticipated much of what science ultimately spells out in its own terms — terms that have often enough seemed invidious to literature.

While the formal equality plus special measures approach to equality demonstrated in Gerhardy v Brown can be seen to reflect a notion of equality which seeks to bring Aboriginal people up to the same level as and assimilate with non-Indigenous people, it at least ensures that invidious differential treatment is outlawed.

These kinds of biases are unconscious and subtle but invidious enough to suppress the diversity of students and faculty in many university science, engineering and math departments and in the scientific workforce at large.

I had no idea discussing the science was so invidious to the German coal lobby.

The story of how Lynas got to this position is given added intrigue because of the apparently invidious role of China, which has about 90 per cent of all the world's rare - earths oxides and supplies about 95 per cent of all processed rare - earths minerals.

They introduce invidious discriminations and encourage sleight of hand in creating sundry forms of «diversity» other than diversity of thought.

We can move beyond a polarization that fosters invidious distinctions and renew a sense of congregational identity by giving special attention to the delight of surprise in worship.

They must either know Hebrew or consult with someone who does; they should avoid invidious comparisons, explicit or implied; and they should hold their christological prejudices in abeyance.

Being hung out to dry is so passively invidious.

When theology supports and encourages the idea of woman as childlike, or as the source of evil, or as possession, or as primarily emotional and not overly given to intelligence, as essentially dependent, then feminists claim that theology is at that point invidious and simply wrong.

What a nasty invidious campaign the «No to the Alternative Vote» side are running.

I was in exactly the same invidious position when people kept asking me at the time when Ming [Sir Menzies Campbell] was leader.

The dissenter on the three - judge panel, Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch, argued that Michigan had invidious motives for targeting public schools and clearly wanted «to cripple the school unions» ability to raise funds for political speech.»

A succession of reports since 2004 has catalogued complaints about high dropout rates, the boredom and irrelevance of the curriculum, dreary teaching, and invidious tracking.

Free textbooks, like tuition grants directed to students in private schools, are a form of tangible financial assistance benefiting the schools themselves, and the State's constitutional obligation requires it to avoid not only operating the old dual system of racially segregated schools but also providing tangible aid to schools that practice racial or other invidious discrimination.

In one of the most cogent books on Islamic - Western relations, Scruton argues that the war on terrorism is based in a misunderstanding of Islamic identity that reflects invidious Western prejudices about immigration, multiculturalism, free trade, and religion.

It's always invidious to pick but I think Harare in Zimbabwe, especially if you consider the difficulties the country is going through and has been through.

But even this allows for invidious differences of subject, medium and approach.

No doubt such cases would be rare, but where they did occur employers would be in a highly invidious position.

1 As JUSTICE GINSBURG observes, post, at 275 - 276, the majority's «flexible» approach to «strict scrutiny» may well take into account differences between benign and invidious programs.

Thus the prosecutor would not have had to make this onerous and invidious decision.