disfavored
Example Sentences
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Different examiners, same mechanism: Use a regulator’s discretion to make disfavored activity expensive enough that the private institution does the discriminating for you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
While Plyler did not formally alter the tiers of judicial scrutiny, it deepened the court’s engagement with this more searching form of rational basis review—particularly when evaluating laws that burdened disfavored or politically powerless groups.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2025
The effort to silence disfavored speech won't stop at college campuses, the groups warn.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
In the movie, the editor of a literary magazine is forced to grovel for publishing a suddenly disfavored play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
A couple of years earlier, I had been invited to Brazil to talk about punishment and the unjust treatment of disfavored people.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
