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
District Judge Randolph Moss issued an injunction, stating the president cannot use governmental power to retaliate against disfavored expression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Since leaving office, he said, he has learned more about the U.S. government’s tactics against disfavored groups in the 1960s and ’70s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
If the true aim is punishment, stigma, or exclusion of a disfavored group, the law is constitutionally suspect—even if it avoids triggering intermediate or strict scrutiny.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2025
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
