| Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors. |
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| The modern Aristotelian, less inclined to discount inferiors and outsiders than Aristotle himself, can fight back. |
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| Other doctors felt him arrogant, aloof and overbearing towards those whom he considered his intellectual inferiors. |
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| Like their social inferiors, however, the middling group was also highly vulnerable to new taxes, economic dislocations and other pressures. |
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| In some instances, such as the eugenic movement, rabid prejudice against so-called racial inferiors combined with a belief in human progress. |
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| But Grandma Biscotti didn't trust Sicilians and looked down on them as social inferiors. |
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| She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood. |
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| Maintain social status by winning at least as much as your inferiors and climb the ranks by winning more than your superiors. |
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| All members of the society were responsible for their inferiors and owed deference to their betters. |
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| Given that there are no animals contesting their status as inferiors to mankind, where can a human advocate of animal emancipation possibly go from there? |
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| On the contrary he approved the honest remonstrance of his inferiors. |
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| To their inferiors, each official demanded rigorous implementation of orders, while bargaining with and concealing resources from those above them. |
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| Was mental illness really spreading so virulently, or were asylums merely becoming more popular as places for warehousing society's presumed inferiors? |
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| Hence the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have a more prominent influence, and were accordingly given larger orbs than the inferiors Mercury and Venus. |
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| He gave a profound argument of how ethical behaviour to animals is, as it would be, to inferiors. |
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| This is partly so because the relationship between the great and their social inferiors is essentially unequal. |
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| Soloviev, in Justification of the Good, argues that there are three types of moral relations: to inferiors, to equals and to superiors. |
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| Done in Paris, this first day of April, 1714. We are, with the most profound respect, our dear Father, your humble and obedient inferiors. |
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| Some women are forced to enter the world of work for financial reasons, but they remain limited by their traditional status as inferiors. |
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| One of the main virtues listed was humility, not only humility before one's superiors, but humility before inferiors as well. |
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| His inferiors respond to his influence and fall to his disposition like ripe fruit. |
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| With his polyvalent employers the group can accept orders inferiors in 500 pieces. |
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| He had taught them about Nietzsche and his philosophy of the overman, a superior man who did not have to obey conventions and morals made for inferiors. |
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| A combination of religious and cultural change, reinforced by political pressure from governments, began to wean them away from their social inferiors. |
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| Suddenly people deemed their social inferiors were rising in the social ladder while those who would normally have been in the elite were rapidly declining. |
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| Furthermore, how much one had to share with guests and followers seems to have been a function of the number of social inferiors within one's orbit. |
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| The junior European officers became increasingly estranged from their soldiers, in many cases treating them as their racial inferiors. |
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| Dear friends, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has fallen, but the Taliban regime's mentality of hatred and violence, of calling other people infidels' and seeing them as inferiors, is a frame of mind that still exists. |
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| Gladstone was humble and deferential, even to his intellectual inferiors. |
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| Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. |
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| Just as Labour overcame its distaste for those it would once have seen as rapacious capitalists and wicked press barons, so Tory toffs overcame theirs for people they used to treat as social inferiors. |
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| It is provocative that Czechs and Hungarians can be treated as inferiors and be given fewer seats in Parliament than countries with fewer inhabitants. |
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| In a dialectical method, we could propose the species, i.e. the proper places used to discern which supreme genus, and which of its immediate inferiors, are appropriate for the adequate expression of a given subject's nature. |
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| It was not at all uncommon for the aristocracy of England and the Continent to be effusively polite among themselves and brutally boorish to those they considered their inferiors. |
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| George Osborne Oik As posh as David Cameron but without his common touch, he is happiest when sneering malevolently at inferiors from the Government frontbench. |
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| And again: the patriarchal status in many countries or religions which is imposed as law, and woman are declassed as inferiors, of little worth, and therefore unsuitable for public office or similar responsibilities. |
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| So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. |
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| He considered the Constables his social inferiors and threatened Maria with disinheritance. |
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| Army surgeons and doctors were poorly paid and were regarded as social inferiors to other officers. |
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| Thus resentment does not arise and superiors and inferiors are in harmony. |
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