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"invidious" Definitions
  1. unpleasant and unfair; likely to offend somebody or make them jealous

103 Sentences With "invidious"

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"Invidious discrimination that is shrouded in layers of legality is no less an insult to our Constitution than naked invidious discrimination," Wynn said.
Overcrowding, poor treatment, and invidious discrimination form a toxic combination.
He shamelessly invents and promotes outlandlish and invidious conspiracy tales.
The Fourteenth Amendment does not require "colorblindness"; it forbids invidious discrimination.
But the comparison is obvious, if invidious, given their family pedigrees.
That would put an NFU-bound America in an invidious position.
Frankly, I don't believe Clinton was being purposefully invidious to Native Americans.
"Make no mistake, your crime was contemptible, invidious and loathsome," Gorton said.
Invidious stories are unsourced or unverifiable or, on close inspection, simply nonsensical.
" Sotomayor countered, "At what point does a court continue to permit invidious discrimination?
Meanwhile, Trump would confront invidious comparisons with Watergate and calls for his impeachment.
He doesn't like invidious comparisons but he's cool with being called an authoritarian.
This has left feminists who remained in the church in an invidious position.
At its worst, Parks's and Ellison's damage imagery reproduced and reinforced invidious racial stereotypes.
Where therefore the pressure could be too great, or the comparisons could be invidious.
But we will stand firmly against using taxpayer resources to entrench and subsidize invidious discrimination.
That is, the agent applied an invidious ethnic profile of Somalis to an Ethiopian man.
It's about invidious distinctions, the ways men compare themselves to other men and come up short.
He said he told the Gupta brother that his family had placed Zuma in an invidious position.
Being unable to afford your insurance and medication is just another invidious form of a preexisting condition.
Another legal precept supporting the lawsuits is that reasons for government action can't be based on invidious discrimination.
They want to make an invidious comparison between their suffering and that of others, like beggars comparing sores.
But it does not permit a professor to actually discriminate against one of his students based on invidious factors.
They, too, were sensitive to the humble pronoun's ability to reinforce hierarchies by encoding invidious distinctions into language itself.
Jai Gurudev espoused an egalitarian spiritual philosophy called "sant mat," which refutes the hierarchy of India's invidious traditional caste system.
So it seems to me the list creates a strong inference that this was not done for that invidious purpose.
Still others objected to the idea of a list in the first place, noting its intrinsically arbitrary and invidious nature.
That is progress with a small "p" even though there are now new, invidious forms of violence against black populations.
It appeared to face an invidious choice between vigorously tightening monetary policy to defend the yuan, or letting the currency fall.
The problem is this: We know that we will discover things about populations that can appear invidious and appear politically inconvenient.
That education, I trust, makes them wary of invidious insults aimed at entire continents and of stereotyping people from those continents.
First, gerrymandering on partisan-politics grounds must be declared as impermissible as it is on racial and other historically invidious grounds.
"Parents must ... avoid blindly engaging in invidious competition and limit overburdening their kids with too many extracurricular activities," the government document said.
Not all these superstar perks are necessarily invidious, but looked at in the context of regional economies they can have striking effects.
A lower-court panel ruled last year that it indeed was such a thing, writing that the map's "invidious partisanship" violated the Constitution.
It must adopt a fair policy for this and future cases that does not allow professors to discriminate against students based on invidious factors.
But the Republican Party — not wobbly Dems, not invidious CEOs — is the biggest and most daunting barrier to climate action in the US, by far.
If religious motivation exempts businesses from anti-discrimination laws, the government could do nothing to protect Americans from the "harms of invidious discrimination," they say.
And people are pretty good at seeing their own behavior in the best light and pretty bad at seeing an invidious pattern to their assumptions.
Contrary to the invidious myth that neoconservatives always put Israel first, the reasons for staying in Syria have everything to do with core U.S. interests.
The style of these deceptively paltry pillow paintings is rigorously expressionist, but less manic than the invidious, bare-breasted shaman who rises up from her spoils.
On the contrary, for 200 years, America was economically, politically and culturally dominated by a white majority — a politically stable, if often invidious, state of affairs.
It is not uncommon for one of today's students to ask, upon encountering an invidious idea, why on earth she should have to put up with it.
He didn't know why he had a right to make what he called invidious distinctions between his beans and these weeds, which is kind of crazy. Yeah.
It is hard to see how our constitutional system, or our political culture, are enriched when those in high office embrace invidious stereotypes--even in veiled form.
Kennedy begins his concurrence by trying to identify "common ground" between all the justices in this case: everyone on the court abhors religious and other invidious discrimination.
This is important to keep in mind, because when it comes to Russia, a lot of people have sought to draw invidious comparisons between Trump and Sanders.
Notably, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed under the authority of the commerce clause, due to the impact such invidious discrimination had on interstate travel.
Trump's hesitance seemed to confirm the left's invidious stereotypes of "white America" and made the dream of a color-blind, character-based society that much harder to obtain.
This voyeurism seemed much more invidious than whatever bitterness I might feel over the fact that someone else was on an eating tour of Umbria when I was not.
"For too long, we have allowed our civility to prevent us from confronting the invidious incivility of President Donald J. Trump," Green wrote in a letter to his colleagues.
Our cognitive and linguistic faculties are endlessly creative — that's what makes our species so smart — and that creativity can be always deployed to reframe issues in congenial or invidious terms.
Now you can argue that they were illegitimate or that they were invidious or they were exclusionary, but the federal government needed legal tools to overturn a functioning democratic system.
"We want to continue this stand, and work towards deepening the critical culture of artists in this country — so we don't end up in this invidious position again," the Protagonists said.
Australia said it "lacks balance, and focuses only on relations between states instead of individual rights," while Japan said it was "not suitable" and Switzerland criticized its "vague and invidious language".
"Under the present implementation of the 1987 law, they are presented with an invidious choice: break Thai law or increase the risk to life and limb," the body said in a statement.
"All invidious elements who may have conspired to vitiate the situation will be exposed through a fair and transparent investigation," Anand Kumar, the second highest police official in Uttar Pradesh, told Reuters.
Filing together with the Human Rights Campaign, the friend of the court brief argues that the law condones "invidious discrimination" and damages the undersigned companies' ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce.
Now we learn that the company also sought to cover up the extent of Russian meddling on its platform — while quietly seeding invidious stories against its business rivals and critics like George Soros.
It feels like a now-or-never moment, a final chance to commit to the public schools that have been eroded by politics, racial wariness and insufficient and invidious alternatives like charter schools.
Most significantly, in January a three-judge panel of a federal court struck down North Carolina's district maps for being "motivated by invidious partisan intent," and violating the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.
So I believe that we must constantly be alert to new (and old) forms of invidious violence, oppose and resist them when we can with full knowledge that many of our efforts will fail.
That puts the force, known as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), in an invidious position as it mans the concertina-wire barricades in the main city of Srinagar and elsewhere in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
"We cannot permit this invidious thinking, discredited by history at the cost of so much misery and suffering by innocents, to take root once again in America, let alone in the White House," Takei wrote.
But Harvard's position is based on the invidious view that members of racial and ethnic categories share traits that are inherent to the group, which is a dangerous belief when applied to races recognized by science.
"An employer may not assume, based on invidious stereotypes, that an employee will be disruptive or ineffective simply because of life decisions such as a marriage or divorce," Judge Mary Catherine Cuff wrote for the court.
Clinton would no doubt eschew the invidious label of the establishment candidate, but as her own ads and rhetoric show she's running as the experienced politician who can defend and consolidate the achievements of the Obama years.
Entitled "Why women still can't have it all", the article argued that in the face of institutional and cultural barriers, women—and indeed men—still had to make invidious choices between the demands of work and family.
Would you consider this way of distributing menus an example of discrimination, in the invidious sense, or merely what economists call "price discrimination," in which less price-sensitive people are guided to pricier versions of some good?
Here is a summary of the bill, based on Laycock's analysis and my reading of the proposal: Section 6 also includes an exemption that stops its use for "invidious discrimination" that's banned under state or federal law.
A number of film leaders here felt that because of economic and political conditions it was unwise to show a film which might be regarded by the nation at large as subversive and by foreign nations as invidious.
A fuller conversation is required before we rejoice that the invidious hegemony of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company and hedge funds as the resting place for our best and brightest graduates has been replaced with early-stage tech companies.
"It's quite shocking to see how the use of language in a very invidious way has sometimes really poisoned the public debate," said Arbour, who is leading U.N. efforts for a global agreement on safe and orderly migration.
Notwithstanding public outcry against the Muslim ban, it is hard to predict whether the federal courts will uphold the ban on grounds that the President acted in the national security interest or strike it down as invidious religious discrimination.
"In the absence of fit between the means (requiring admitting privileges) and the ends (ensuring women's health), I am left to conclude that, viewed objectively, there is an invidious purpose at play," Higginbotham wrote, suggesting a possible political intention.
They do this, says the bank, to strengthen control and solve what it calls the "dictator's dilemma": the invidious choice between restricting the internet, which would hurt economic development, and leaving it unfettered, which could undermine the government's power.
Looking ahead, in a host of areas from taxation to industrial overcapacity to the environment, the party must make an invidious choice: introduce unpopular reforms now and risk short-term instability, or delay reform and jeopardise the country's future.
"That is not an invidious pretext-especially given the Proclamation's detailed national-security findings, the resonance of those findings in determinations of numerous federal officials, and the judicial deference owed to executive decisions in this context," the brief states.
" And Damore's suit adds that Google's attempts to hire greater numbers of women and other workers from diverse, underrepresented backgrounds represents a form of "invidious discrimination" on the part of the tech giant, "to the detriment of caucasian and male employees.
That is partly because of the view taken in Silicon Valley, inspired by America's right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, that platforms should be open to all users to express themselves freely and that acting as a censor is invidious.
Ms Wilson tells Luce that he should play by the rules and accept the difficulties of succeeding in an unjust society; Luce, echoing Fanon, argues that he should be free to be himself, and that invidious rules and expectations should be rejected.
Most Americans, at least publicly, agree that we should judge each other by the content of our character rather than by invidious distinctions such as color, race, religion and even, dare I say it in this day and age, gender or sexual orientation.
"Today's vague laws may not be as invidious, but they can invite the exercise of arbitrary power all the same - by leaving the people in the dark about what the law demands and allowing prosecutors and courts to make it up," Gorsuch added.
How we got here: A lower federal court ruled North Carolina's map as unconstitutional, saying that the GOP-controlled legislature was "motivated by invidious partisan intent" when it divided the state into 13 congressional districts — 10 of which are held by Republicans.
"They're taking steps toward science and away from just trying to find invidious comparisons, which has plagued other studies on the geography of giving," said Paul G. Schervish, professor emeritus at Boston College and retired director of its Center on Wealth and Philanthropy.
His extreme example was Holocaust denial, where invidious but often well-publicized cranks confronted survivors with the absurd challenge to produce incontrovertible eyewitness evidence of their experience of the killing machines set up by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
But while federal and state regulators and tens of thousands of landowners across the country had their eye on the government's invidious water rule, another more subtle but equally dangerous Obama-era action was working its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Today's vague laws may not be as invidious, but they can invite the exercise of arbitrary power all the same — by leaving the people in the dark about what the law demands and allowing prosecutors and courts to make it up," Gorsuch wrote.
In their sharply worded, unanimous opinion, the judges wrote that Republicans in Ohio, supervised by party mapmaking experts in Washington, operated with "invidious partisan intent" to pack Democrats into as few districts as possible, and to carve up Democratic-leaning cities and counties to favor Republicans.
Mackenzie said an increase in insurance premium tax, which will rise again in June to 12 percent, a doubling of the rate from two years ago, was "inequitable, invidious, insidious, you name it, all of those", but AA had not raised insurance premiums on top of the tax rises.
Judge James A. Wynn Jr., in a biting 191-page opinion, said that Republicans in North Carolina's Legislature had been "motivated by invidious partisan intent" as they carried out their obligation in 2016 to divide the state into 13 congressional districts, 10 of which are held by Republicans.
"Determining whether invidious discriminatory purpose was a motivating factor demands a sensitive inquiry into such circumstantial and direct evidence of intent as may be available," the court said in the Arlington opinion, which involved a village zoning decision that effectively barred a low-income housing nonprofit from building multifamily units.
I can't shake the feeling that our audience will feel that we have been talking past one another impressively here, because I do feel that, and I feel like I know why, but spelling that out sounds somewhat invidious, and we don't really have time to clean up the mess.
And then, after the invidious 2005 videotape of her husband and Billy Bush surfaced — with the bros bantering about groping women at a time when Melania was pregnant — there was talk that she and Donald would do a Bill and Hillary "60 Minutes"-type interview where she stood by her Cheez Doodle.
In a caustic ruling written by James Wynn, an appellate judge nominated by Barack Obama, the court found that the state's current map—which let Republicans win ten of the state's 21990 districts with just 53% of the total overall vote—was "motivated by invidious partisan intent", and violated the first and 14th Amendments.
Not only have United States-Ukrainian relations been thrown into chaos — a major win for Moscow — but the American president himself, and his closest confidants, are showing them precisely which political cleavages to target, which social fractures to aggravate and which narratives — however invidious — have already gained currency among a credulous subsection of the American electorate.
Seeking to be elected in a state that holds the invidious distinction of having the highest number of lynchings between 1882 and 1968, Hyde-Smith made a shocking comment that she would be in the "front row" of a "public hanging" if one of her supporters invited her (She later apologized if her comment had offended anyone).
"This action, brought on behalf of transgender individuals, seeks to ensure that all qualified Americans have an equal opportunity to serve in the United States military, that transgender individuals are free from arbitrary and invidious discrimination and that the constitutional rights of transgender individuals to autonomy, privacy and freedom of expression are respected and protected," the suit says.
"This action, brought on behalf of transgender individuals, seeks to ensure that all qualified Americans have an equal opportunity to serve in the United States military, that transgender individuals are free from arbitrary and invidious discrimination and that the constitutional rights of transgender individuals to autonomy, privacy and freedom of expression are respected and protected," the suit says.
But even in cases where religion has been used to foment intergroup conflict, to justify invidious social hierarchies or to encourage the maintenance of false beliefs, studying how it manages to leverage the mechanisms of the mind to accomplish those nefarious goals can offer insights about ourselves — insights that could be used to understand and then combat such abuses in the future, whether perpetrated by religious or secular powers.
There's no point in having our politics be hostage to these kind of tripwire effects, where you say something that seems politically invidious, merely talking about the data as they are — unless every population of human beings has exactly the same mean and the same variance for every trait we care about, we are guaranteed to be blindsided by these differences that seem important to people who care about differences among groups.
Seemingly incapable of letting pass even the most trivial challenges, like the media's invidious comparison between the size of the inaugural crowd and the numbers assembled for the so-called Women's March on Washington, President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE responds with a claim that not only can't be corroborated but is plainly false.
But if you followed my work, if you followed the kinds of alliances I've formed, if you've followed my efforts to prop up Reformist Muslims and ex-Muslims and it just ... It's clear that the color of people's skin or their country of origin has nothing to do with my energy here, that I'm talking ideas and their consequences, and if I'm going to make an invidious comparison between Islam and Hinduism, let's say, or Islam and Buddhism, just do the math.

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