Sentence examples for considerable prejudice from inspiring English sources

Despite this, considerable prejudice remained.

In 1835 the two sisters opened their own practice in the face of considerable prejudice.

Considerable prejudice and discrimination have existed against the Gitanos in Spain and are still prevalent today.

"The final list is perhaps not as representative of modern Britain as we would have liked, reflecting the fact that mass immigration was a relatively recent phenomenon and that the earlier generations of ethnic minorities faced considerable prejudice," she said.

His deep voice made him a natural for the genre, but he might have faced considerable prejudice, as one of the few African American artists in a genre which has promoted few such artists.

Nikki Kenward, who is disabled and also the creative director of the anti-euthanasia group Alert: Defending Vulnerable People's Right to Live, said: "Those of us who are disabled or have life-threatening conditions know first-hand of the already considerable prejudice and pressure that is put on us already, even by some of the medical establishment.

They, after all, possess the crippling self-consciousness of their (my) class, are almost painfully restrained and hide their considerable prejudices under a pink cardigan of politeness.

English Jews were subject to considerable religious prejudice and primarily worked from towns and cities in which there was a local royal castle that could provide them with protection in the event of attacks from the majority Christian population.

While many allied troops were sympathetic to France's suffering under the occupation, a considerable number had their worst prejudices confirmed by what they saw.

In the meanwhile, results from various studies contributed to the resolution of such prejudices and led to considerable progress in the development of oral treatment options [ 13, 14, 16, 17] as well as of all-oral chemotherapy combinations [ 9, 26, 38- 40].

There is considerable support for the existence of generalized prejudice (see Ekehammar et al. 2004).