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prejudice

pre juh dis

  • n  a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
  • v  disadvantage by prejudice
  • v  influence (somebody's) opinion in advance

  • No longer did Wilder risk racial polarization by talking about putting prejudice to the test.
  • The most prejudice-prone of all the categories covered by the study: the retired.
  • Despite years of prejudice, Japan's aboriginal Ainu are beginning to reclaim their unique identity.
News & Articles

  • Class Action Lawsuit against Columbia Laboratories Dismissed without Prejudice
    Columbia Laboratories, Inc. announced today that the previously disclosed putative class action lawsuit filed against the Company, Actavis, Inc. and certain officers of both companies in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, entitled In re Columbia Laboratories, Inc., Securities Litigation, has been dismissed without prejudice.
    June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Class Action Lawsuit against Columbia Laboratories Dismissed without Prejudice
    Columbia Laboratories, Inc. announced today that the previously disclosed putative class action lawsuit filed against the Company, Actavis, Inc. and certain officers of both companies in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, entitled In re Columbia Laboratories, Inc., Securities Litigation, has been dismissed without prejudice.
    June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Ex-official: D.C. labor union bias at root of prejudice claims
    The D.C. board that adjudicates public employee disputes has been accused of discriminating against whites and conservatives, but city officials also have questioned whether claims of prejudice are rooted in a labor union bias on the part of the board's members, according to the board's former executive director. Documents obtained ...
    June 11, 2013 - The Washington Times
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in USA Today
    Far too often, we have seen faith wielded as a tool to divide us from one another -- as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance,President Obama says. "Wars have been waged. Innocents have been slaughtered. For centuries, entire religions...
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton in International Herald Tribune
    The president-elect and I believe that foreign policy must be based on a marriage of principles and pragmatism, not rigid ideology, on facts and evidence, not emotion or prejudice,Clinton said, her daughter, Chelsea, seated behind her in the...
  • Jeff Sessions in New York Times
    The ranking Republican on the panel, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said: "Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics. And politics has no place in the...

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