They find out quickly how easy it is to hurt one another with unquestioned assumptions and prejudices. |
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We put up protective walls made of opinions, prejudices and strategies, barriers that are built on a deep fear of being hurt. |
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These flow from the interaction between people's experiences and the prejudices of the society they live in. |
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Was his mockery of posters encouraging riding a bike meant to appeal to the narrow-minded prejudices of his more polluting punters? |
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Because they exploit the fears and incite the prejudices of the narrow-minded. |
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Preconceived notions are prejudices about what is supposed to happen during the ritual, or the way in which the ritual must be done. |
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The average citizen's own prejudices may have run deep, but he didn't dare speak them out in polite society. |
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It is clear that this policy prejudices the poorest sections of rural society and will lead to greater inequality. |
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He is content to mix with neo-fascists and appears to share many of their racist and anti-Semitic prejudices. |
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Today's neo-Malthusians share the old prejudices, but in addition they harbour a powerful sense of loathing against the human species itself. |
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But I don't think I can set aside my prejudices about the vacuousness of life in suburban sprawl. |
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Confounding my prejudices, they are not the chinless blue-bloods I expected. |
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It's time to do away with the old prejudices about cordless technology and ergonomics. |
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Full and free discussion even of ideas we hate encourages the testing of our own prejudices and preconceptions. |
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They are bullheaded enough, hard-line enough for their own ideological prejudices to carry the day in the end. |
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The relative fact is, there is no normal and no abnormal, just the sum total of our prejudices and preconceptions. |
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It is extremely difficult to eradicate prejudices so deeply rooted and natural. |
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Without handed-down prejudices, children will behave in a spirit of complete even-handedness. |
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She has often won the argument, even if chauvinistic practices and prejudices remain deeply entrenched. |
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Done badly, they can reinforce racial stereotypes and increase the prejudices they were designed to reduce. |
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Those who vocalised their prejudices so abhorrently midweek did not speak for an entire country. |
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Again, however, there are subtleties and many preconceptions and prejudices. |
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First, drawing on longstanding European prejudices, they depicted blacks as heathens and savages unworthy of English liberties. |
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If we are to truly assess what is going on in the world it is necessary to put our prejudices and preconceived notions aside. |
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That is often why the prejudices and aberrations of one generation of Orientalists were exposed and rejected by the next. |
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Serious art is incompatible with chauvinism, racial hatred and prejudices of all types. |
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If we are to mature as a society as well as a nation, then we should put outdated prejudices behind us, stop the silly jokes, and grow up. |
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They are experienced enough to know how timing and careful selection of language can add fuel to inflamed prejudices. |
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I laugh at my 76-year-old mother's anti-Catholic prejudices, because I can see the naked chauvinism behind them for what it is. |
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She is indulging her passion for running other people's lives in accord with her own personal prejudices. |
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He takes his shots at me, but he has an acerbic, curmudgeonly style that gives me a laugh and he happily owns up to his prejudices. |
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He softens his heart a little and puts his prejudices aside when confronted with his past on Christmas. |
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Under the microscope it turns out to be a collection of prejudices masquerading as arguments and distortions dressed up to look like facts. |
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References to Pearl Harbor and kamikaze pilots could stir up old WWII prejudices against Japanese-Americans. |
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When he speaks about the prejudices he has faced, the added issue of his sexuality is almost an afterthought. |
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Sometimes we act on prejudices that we have developed from earlier experiences. |
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In its period in government the party encouraged religious prejudices and backwardness. |
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The language carries its own values, the comforting familiarity of its age-old prejudices. |
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They have brought with them from the trade union covens the unreconstructed prejudices of an underclass. |
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It is this ability to wipe the slate clean, to forget history and all its barriers and prejudices, which is behind the attraction of new towns. |
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Or how about Medea as an evil foreigner confirming the xenophobic prejudices of an early Greek democracy? |
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What advice do you expect to get from a xenophobic Cold War warrior dripping in petty prejudices and half-baked homilies? |
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Enough generations of children have already been pumped full of these types of prejudices. |
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I also want to make it clear that there is no room for provincialism, cliques or personal prejudices in the national side. |
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We designers should learn to understand that end-users each have their own set of preferences, prejudices, and requisites. |
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But prejudices and biases are common as the community is being denied its right to political reservation according to its demographic strength. |
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There are no pre-determined outcomes and knowledge is no respecter of any prejudices or individual sensibilities. |
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When dealing with his treatment of broadsides, it must be remembered that he has strong prejudices in this area. |
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They usually reveal more about the pollsters ' prejudices than the public's opinions. |
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He is right to say that the problem does not, at its root, lie with individual teachers and their prejudices. |
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When a pianist has played a series of concerts, prejudices are dropped and the critics will praise irrespectively. |
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He critiques the rigidity of laws and prejudices that are so fundamental to the makeup of his native social order. |
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Wilson remained essentially a southern Democrat, not rising above the prejudices of the day. |
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He has, nonetheless, the full armature of liberal-left prejudices which have become commonplace in arts faculties these days. |
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The heroine of Martinu's Mirandolina seduces a self-confessed misogynist, only to reconfirm his prejudices when she dumps him for a bit of rough. |
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Its agenda is as broad as it is deep, touching personal nerves and deep-seated prejudices. |
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It is good that he tends to draw back in the end, but it would be even better if he didn't pander to his readers' prejudices in the first place. |
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I really do think it's perfectly OK to expose one's passions and prejudices in unashamedly polemic writing on a blog. |
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He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time. |
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If the state's wisdom came from majoritarian prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further. |
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He had the decisiveness and political support to override grassroot prejudices to advance his country's interest. |
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He appealed to the backbench country gentlemen, whose prejudices he shared. |
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When will the Magisterium learn that it is there to confirm us in our prejudices and a priori assumptions, not to make us think? |
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The very indigestibility of what was on show was salutary, requiring a constant reappraisal of reactions, criteria and prejudices. |
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It's not surprising that critics celebrate novels which reflect their own prejudices and presuppositions. |
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He is Prime Minister, and therefore has a duty to rise above the ordinary concerns, fears and prejudices of the common man. |
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They should be protected from parents who pass along prejudices that lead to schoolyard bullying and, later in life, hate crimes. |
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Although many citizens have taken a keen interest in the bearded vulture's recovery, old prejudices about the bird die hard. |
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Everyone's influenced by their parents' prejudices, or in my case, the lack thereof. |
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It was fascinating to see their opinions without the prejudices inculcated by media spin. |
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The group claims that IRB decisions are often based on commissioners' prejudices and Canada's foreign policy tilt of the moment. |
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Heading the list of acceptable prejudices is that against middle-aged, long-haired beardies. |
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Collecting stories across the political spectrum, he never tips his hand to reveal his views or prejudices. |
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Many of these enquiries were based on anecdotal evidence and coloured by popular prejudices. |
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Many of Galton's ideas were, of course, based on prejudices he brought to his science. |
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I shrugged off my prejudices and decided to visit the state where my ancestors, along with hundreds of other Scottish families, had settled. |
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The present-day education system hardly resolves the prejudices against the victims. |
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All the prejudices, all the exaggerations of both the great parties in the state, moved his scorn. |
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Additionally, she provides many details of the prejudices and adversity the women of the OSS encountered during their tours of duty. |
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One must avoid past errors, ensuring that Emile's education bypasses traditional pedagogic prejudices. |
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Is it possible that perceptions and prejudices formed over millennia are shaken off in one go? |
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It is simply lost in the mindset of its own prejudices and cannot find a way out. |
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Unless misconceptions were cleared up here at the very beginning, they were likely to reinforce already existing prejudices. |
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The void is full of potential, just like a clear mind free of eccentricities, prejudices and egos. |
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Teenagers are known for their gawky prejudices, which tend to change once they get into the real world. |
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Each seeks to mobilize broader support through appeals to popular fears and prejudices. |
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Here all concerns about aid, suasion, and civilizational prejudices were drowned out by shrieking simulators and thundering tanks. |
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Beyond the media's tunnel vision lies the persistence of the habit of the rich world using the poor world to buttress its prejudices. |
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We all bring to a film our own storehouse of experiences, impressions, prejudices. |
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What I can't understand is why we just can't leave people to live their lives in peace, unscathed by our silly, ridiculous prejudices. |
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As a straight woman with my own prejudices and preconceptions, I fall somewhere in between. |
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One wonders how many of Sharp's critics today would be prepared to sink their own prejudices and defy political correctness in order to do so. |
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Of course, many of those who were right about the war were only right because of their own partisan prejudices. |
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This views a disabled person as limited more by society's prejudices than by the actual disability. |
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It is part of the sincerity of rational arguments that they are never knowingly glosses for partisan prejudices. |
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They usually reveal more about the pollsters' prejudices than the public's opinions. |
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Another point of view may help to clarify thinking and offset preconceived notions or prejudices. |
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Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public. |
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The bigot today is often unaware either that he has prejudices or that he is indulging them. |
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The bigot now employs camouflage in translating his prejudices into reality. |
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This calculus is loaded with all kinds of assumptions about the ongoing prejudices of white America. |
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Her principles, her prejudices, her confrontational style divided British society and still splits parts of the Tory Party. |
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Little Ray and Caz uncover some uncomfortable truths, and Ray and Jim have to come to terms with the prejudices of ageism, family loyalty and love. |
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Some prejudices have names such as racism, sexism, or ageism. |
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Without giving too much away, her tale plays on audience prejudices regarding adopted children and scorned wives. |
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Here you have someone who is obviously a talented politician and he can't be allowed to run for higher office because of the prejudices of a bunch of medieval lamebrains. |
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Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. |
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Yet the research could also be twisted to bolster deep-seated prejudices against the San, probably the most abused and downtrodden ethnic group in southern Africa. |
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Her snobbism was arbitrary, and her prejudices were restricted to the rules and laws of her own personal kingdom. |
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The utopians ' mistake of hyperrationalism is also one of the errors of the post-modernists, who hold that irrational prejudices may be overcome by multiculturalist homilies. |
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One has only to think of such prejudices as racism and sexism. |
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Meanwhile most of the world will Merrily move on, largely unencumbered by such all-encompassing prejudices and paranoia. |
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Our vehement prejudices leave us no patience for his appeal to radical humanism. |
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I think that has a lot to do with various prejudices and narrow-minded pockets of our culture. |
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Who cares about the unchangeable petty prejudices of the deeply stupid as long as they are prevented formally and rigorously from acting upon them? |
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These ungrounded rumors wildly combine incongruous prejudices and fears that seem to have no source but are always a repetition of someone else's repetition. |
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I find its stance so strange that I have a hard time accepting that they came by it entirely honestly, entirely uninfluenced by more domestic political prejudices. |
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Various old beliefs and prejudices clank about in the bottle bank that passes for my brain, ready to be crushed, melted and recast into something nearly new. |
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He had his prejudices and unreasoned commitments, but was more interested in developing and communicating his perception of how things were than advancing any cause. |
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It needn't just be used to confront the obvious prejudices, either. |
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Liberal legislators from across the country heard all their prejudices confirmed. |
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There are some pretty archaic, long-held biases and prejudices that remain in place. |
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All social institutions have been adapted to suit the prejudices of a canaille debased beyond any degeneracy that our forefathers could have imagined. |
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Discussions are sometimes abusive and unpleasant, and often sterile and unproductive, with most people adhering rigidly to their long-entrenched prejudices. |
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Whatever your cynical prejudices, you would need a heart of stone to look at the childhood letters and family photos without feeling some sneaking sense of pathos. |
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Good theater can toss all kinds of prejudices into a cocked opera hat. |
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It is also the story of a young society discovering a new confidence in itself, outgrowing old boundaries and prejudices, becoming more aware of its strengths and weaknesses. |
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But as her closer association with Mr. Darcy had worn down her earlier prejudices, she had come to put a great deal of faith in his essential honourability. |
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He had wanted to work with a bigger equities platform but was choosy about which American house to join, sharing some of his former boss's views but not his prejudices. |
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Hers is a book for mature people who do not expect pat answers, who are willing to be disturbed by arguments instead of having their prejudices satisfied. |
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So unless you're minded to cut 'em into collops and be done with it, you'd best make allowances for their prejudices when you're after asking them to swear that first oath. |
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A collection of beliefs and prejudices, tricks of the trade, fieldcraft, and frontier field doctrine was wholly vocational and often quite ephemeral. |
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As the rest of the world marched towards scientific orientation and professionalism, India wallowed in a whirlpool of politics, polemics and puerile prejudices. |
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Governments tend to impose the opinions and prejudices of the majority. |
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It's not a bunch of theory I've cooked up based on my own prejudices. |
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Each of us observes the world and the people with whom we come in contact through a lens refracted by our own upbringing, experiences and prejudices. |
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When two minds are focused on a problem, and look at the problem with similar prejudices of what is correct and what is not, conversations need no preliminaries. |
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As a democrat, I believe that minorities should be protected from the prejudices of the majority when they turn on pursuits they find distasteful. |
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Taken at face value, the question seems simple enough but scratch it and the hidden prejudices and stereotypes tumble out of the cupboard like the proverbial skeletons. |
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Over time they become more assertive, expressing themselves as compulsions and obsessions, phobias and prejudices, neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses. |
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I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable! |
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But the canned laughter and Dave's throw-back prejudices belong to a different era entirely. |
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. |
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Jesus' interaction with the Canaanite woman reminds us that every one of our prejudices needs to be exposed and transformed. |
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It also reflected ideological motives and baser prejudices, especially among anti-Semites and Anglophobes. |
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He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. |
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Although acutely conscious of living in a 'wilderness,' they stoutheartedly refused to yield an inch to pioneer prejudices or frontier values. |
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Historians have also neglected to explore drink culture because of their own antidrink prejudices. |
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The prejudices of the home counties squirearchy had clearly taken root among the Australian squattocracy. |
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Negative evaluations may reflect the prejudices rather than real issues with understanding accents. |
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When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day. |
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International necessities are rapidly breaking down old prejudices and conservatisms, while developing cosmopolite feeling. |
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In this case, it is complicated by long standing politics and religious and cultural prejudices. |
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Confessional prejudices, especially towards mixed marriages, were still common. |
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Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood. |
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Your salon would suit their views admirably, if you respected the religious prejudices of the country and provided plenty of kala juggahs. |
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Contempt for flunky failures NOTHING A J Hubble writes is devoid of right wing prejudices, again he fails to make valid comparisons. |
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He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. |
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Strom attributes the failure of feminists to unite office workers to women's prejudices as well as male managers' gender bias. |
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Captain Evans had a mind of his own, and did not choose to adopt any man's judgment or prejudices blindly. |
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Their old anti-union prejudices and instincts to demonise workers are as poisonous as ever in the unmodernised Conservatives. |
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But there are subtler ways of playing on the same prejudices and fears. |
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Apparently the Kingsleys' instinctive monarchism overrode their racial prejudices, and a thoroughly good time was had by all. |
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Last year the Irish host set out to find the prejudices faced by carrottops here in documentary Oi Ginger. |
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With soul-searching effectiveness we must find out just what prejudices and bigotous shortcomings we do have. |
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In short, they are trying to reach beyond the prejudices of a large plurality of bishops at Nicaea and of those in their own evangelical background. |
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Only the Cameroons, paralysed as they are by the fashionable prejudices aired at metropolitan dinner tables and the terror of getting on the wrong side of the BBC sneerocracy. |
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And though the prejudices of her husband and community, 'the rules' of apartheid law and practice, provide a context for her behaviour, she cannot evade imputability. |
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Although some of the professors were disappointing, the good ones taught me to think evangelically and honestly, without prejudices or caricatures. |
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Whatever one's prejudices about indie-pop, Belle and Sebastian have turned in a finely crafted piece of ear candy that actually has some nutritional substance. |
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There is still an unfortunate tendency to territorialize dance, but none of us is served particularly well when we hang on to our archaic divisions and academic prejudices. |
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There are certain gender prejudices at issue when it comes to course work. |
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June Purvis argues that while she had to struggle hard against the deep sexist prejudices of her day to rise to the top, she made no effort to ease the path for other women. |
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Rhetoric is no art whatever, but a mere unscientific knack, enslaved to the dominant prejudices, and nothing better than an impostrous parody on the true political art. |
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Merely a reflection of the fact that for the Chancellor, a disciple of 60s and 70s socialism, the blind gut prejudices over class never lurk far from the surface. |
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Forget about your New England prejudices and salmonoid exclusivities. |
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I call it the New Racism lexicon, which takes straightforward words and rejiggers them with insidious new meanings that express the same prejudices, just less overtly. |
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The Kirtland's specific nesting prejudices demand not just jack pines, but jack pine forest in the process of rebounding from what some might term natural disaster. |
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The author asks questions about where the stereotypical images of genocide perpetrators and victims move people to action and where they merely reinforce prejudices. |
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The low school enrollment of Roma children prejudices their integration into the labor market and causes more serious problems, such as crime, migration and ghettoization. |
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Friendship with the latter marked the breakdown of two old prejudices. |
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Hurry had all the prejudices and antipathies of a white hunter, who generally regards the Indian as a sort of natural competitor, and not unfrequently as a natural enemy. |
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He argued that the oppression of women was one of the few remaining relics from ancient times, a set of prejudices that severely impeded the progress of humanity. |
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Paul Coggle, an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Kent, agrees that an accent is only liked or disliked because of prejudices we have picked up in life. |
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Sunday drivers were more hated than rush-hour commuters and school-run mums, reinforcing many of the traditional stereotyped prejudices among Britain's car owners. |
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