Because they were deemed too intimidating.
In the UK, two cancer treatments were dropped because they were deemed too expensive.
Germany, Austria, Turkey, Hungary, and Japan were banned because they were deemed to be aggressors in the two world wars.
In this case, the original intent — again — was to use demographic labels because they were deemed relevant.
Several knowledgeable State Department Arabists were prevented from going to Iraq because they were deemed ideologically unsound.
At first, this was because they were deemed no longer to be a threat or of intelligence value.
Most homeless single people – including, bizarrely, some rough sleepers – typically would not have qualified for help because they were deemed as not in "priority need".
Older consumers, by contrast, were less desirable because they were deemed to be shoppers with entrenched habits who lived sedentary, frugal lives.
Dr Benjamin Jacobs, a consultant paediatrician at the Royal National Orthopaedic hospital in London, said such programmes were stopped because they were deemed "unnecessary, possibly harmful".
Last year, a disabled sprinter was forbidden to run in Olympic-level track meets on his carbon-fiber legs because they were deemed too fast.
In both cases, the claimants faced a cut in housing benefit because they were deemed to be "under-occupying" the additional rooms which were classified as spare.
