Categorically excluding certain vulnerable groups from research altogether may contribute to their vulnerability by preventing the design and improvement of interventions specifically tailored to their needs, and may in fact violate principles of social justice by leaving them worse off than they otherwise would have been.
Beyond that jurisdictional question, the court also agreed to decide the retroactive effect of a provision making aliens who have committed certain crimes categorically ineligible for relief from automatic deportation, no matter what their personal circumstances.
I was treading on the thin ice that divides what can be seen and what has to be guessed at, a territory I'm certain physicians categorically dislike.
He chuckles at himself and his success, but also gets properly upset at people who declare certain comedians are categorically "not funny".
One thing is for certain in my mind, I cannot categorically denounce any parent who has spanked their child a time or two.
ICMR's director general, microbiologist Vishwa Mohan Katoch, categorically rejects a connection: "Based on the enquiry, it is certain that causality of the seven deaths was not at all related to the HPV vaccine," he insists.
By shutting down certain mental functions -- the capacity to think conceptually, categorically, contextually -- did this impairment allow other mental functions to flourish?
"The American Union categorically refuses immigration of unhealthy elements, and simply excludes the immigration of certain races," Hitler wrote in "Mein Kampf".
Furthermore, many countries have an education requirement categorically connected to the age criterion, while the right to acquire a driving licence at a certain age is similarly arbitrary.
Risk can be expressed continuously in a population (e.g. the distribution of certain personality traits), but in high-risk research, phrases such as 'UHR' or 'BAR' criteria are often used categorically.
