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Some speakers argued that the differences, even though obtained for medical purposes, might be used invidiously.

Would more precision have made the book as disposable as journalism is invidiously held to be?

"Many property tax payers are routinely and invidiously discriminated against in our state," he said.

Or, more invidiously, "Have the children seen Florence yet?"

Both also proceed from the same misguided assumption, that government invidiously discriminates against religion.

Softly, invidiously, the atmosphere began to sweat under the ululation of the lurker.

But not as invidiously as this tent.

The subsequent amendment of 415 was not a Congressional admission that its previous policy was invidiously discriminatory.

There is a fear that any eurozone support deal could be achieved invidiously at the expense of those outside it.

Small wonder, then, that nearly every comedian who followed him has been influenced by him and compared with him, mostly invidiously.

Judge Gleeson had said that the voting system "invidiously excludes blacks from effective participation in political life."

The judge said the system "invidiously excluded blacks from effective participation" in town politics and ordered the town to draw up six separate districts.

The chauffeur eyed me; was he comparing me, invidiously, to the countess, the artist's model, the opera singer?

But a city does not unduly suppress free speech, nor discriminate invidiously, when it chooses which activities its captive audience of transit patrons must endure.

That is, it may not "discriminate invidiously in its subsidies in such a way as to 'aim at the suppression of dangerous ideas.' "

I might slip up and say something embarrassing about the new running-shoe meritocracy being even more invidiously class-conscious than the old white-shoe establishment.

You state that the drafters of two proposed religious amendments to the Constitution are working from a misguided assumption that "government invidiously discriminates against religion."

To make his point, Bryce invidiously compared American Presidents with British Prime Ministers.

Yes, thou shalt revisit the land of thy birth, I thought, as I looked invidiously on the airy voyager; but we shall, never more!

According to the Court, the principal purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to prohibit the States from invidiously discriminating on the basis of race.

The District Court found that both the Senate and the Assembly apportionment laws were "invidiously discriminatory, being based upon no constitutionally valid policy."

It employs quality-of-life criteria that have the effect of invidiously discriminating against people who may well have extended life expectancy but with some degree of disability."

In the humour people are in here, a man is in danger of becoming invidiously distinguished who buys anything in England which our tradesman can furnish."

Mr. Leverich is surely justified in questioning what is invidiously becoming received wisdom: that Cornelius sexually abused Rose.

To the extent that Shakespeare invidiously contrasts Shylock's strict Pharisaism with Portia's Christian mercy, the play's truth is diminished.