But the completely paternalistic and autocratic culture of Il Papa led to an insular, exclusionary system that failed to police itself, and that became a corrosive shelter for secrets and shame.
Others say that these high salaries are an unbearable financial burden -- and that they reinforce classical music's image as an elitist, exclusionary world that is increasingly out of touch with its listeners.
In the realm of laws with unintended consequences, a chapter could be devoted to the Mount Laurel doctrine, a groundbreaking law intended to dismantle exclusionary zoning that has also become an engine for the kinds of development that some planning officials consider environmentally insensitive.
Unlike redneck, a title some people attempt to wear proudly as a reaction to being labeled, caipira is an exclusionary term that doesn't band people together, promoting isolation and a sense that you belong to nothing. .
In Gender Trouble, Butler questioned the validity of much feminist political theorizing by suggesting that the subject whose oppression those theories attempted to explain women"—is an exclusionary construct that "achieves stability and coherence only in the context of the heterosexual matrix".
Following are key portions of the plaintiffs' supporting memorandum filed yesterday in the Microsoft antitrust case: This Court's Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law demonstrate that Microsoft has engaged in a wide-ranging series of predatory and exclusionary activities that have inflicted significant harm on consumers and on the software industry.
The threshold question in this analysis is whether the defendant's conduct is "exclusionary" -- that is, whether it has restricted significantly, or threatens to restrict significantly, the ability of other firms to compete in the relevant market on the merits of what they offer customers.
A joint venture raises the possibility of exclusionary agreements that could limit competition and, therefore, violate antitrust laws.
The study notes that in the 1970s, some skilled-trades unions and construction unions helped to increased inequality through exclusionary practices that reinforced racial and ethnic inequalities.
"The purpose of the consent decree was to prevent and prohibit Microsoft from certain exclusionary behavior that was anticompetitive in nature," Mr. Barnett said.
