prejudice
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Basildon Borough Council said it could not comment because doing so "could prejudice ongoing legal enforcement proceedings".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The council said it could not comment "as doing so could prejudice ongoing legal enforcement proceedings".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
His work fighting racial prejudice wasn’t limited to the world of sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The equal protection clause was written to provide a powerful weapon against entrenched prejudice.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Gayle may have ended legal segregation on the buses, but it did not end racial prejudice.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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Some people were working through their prejudices in real time and it’s amazing to watch them transform.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Aa a pop star with 10 years of hits under her belt, she says big artists need to shed their prejudices about Eurovision.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
More broadly the play is a tart vivisection of human pettiness and venality, as one by one the characters’ prejudices, peccadilloes and blinkered views are exposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Here, Borgli only skims the surface, counting on subtext to imply that Charlie and Rachel have been forced to confront innate prejudices about their partners, who are both Black.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
They lean with the prevailing winds and employ every fallacy of logic in order to editorialize harmoniously with popular prejudices.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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On Tuesday, Tate's lawyers applied for a stay of 12 months on the civil case, arguing they were awaiting materials from the police and that any potential future criminal proceedings could be prejudiced.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Helder Barbalho, the governor of the state of Para, where Belem is located, slammed "the prejudiced" comments on the X social network.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
Mr Patel said he did not know where the money was and did not want to discuss what happened, in case it prejudiced any future court case against Vashi.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
The judge found the special prosecutor and Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies had concealed evidence from Baldwin’s legal team, which the judge said prejudiced the case against Baldwin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
Not that he was prejudiced or anything, but he just wanted to know.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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The effective double trial led each executive to produce more damaging claims about the other, thus prejudicing the jury against the defendants, the lawyers said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
An Environment Agency spokesman said they were "actively investigating" the dumping and had shared "as much information as we can with the residents of Highnam without prejudicing any further enforcement action".
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
“Plaintiffs’ concealment of their identities is prejudicing the Robinsons’ defense,” the motion alleges.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
He went on to say: "Those incidents are now subject to an insurance claim and I can give no further details without prejudicing that insurance claims at this time I'm afraid."
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
Mr. Wilson did not enforce the Memorandum because he could not do so without prejudicing the interests of American commerce.
From My Three Years in America by Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
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