Sentence examples for pervasive prejudice from inspiring English sources

Few escaped the pervasive prejudice, however.

He added: "Age discrimination is perhaps the most pervasive prejudice in society".

"It's hard for me to think," he said, that the questioning "would have been much shorter even if there had been no showing of pervasive prejudice".

To ease the family's financial burden, he lived in Anglican boys' homes in Alice Springs and Adelaide, where, he later recalled, he first experienced pervasive prejudice.

The result has created an identifiable underclass, one that is often the target of racial abuse or even physical attacks, as well as pervasive prejudice from employers, landlords and government employees.

There's a deep and pervasive prejudice about women's capabilities as directors, and that's been a monumental stumbling block.

At a time when the country is introspecting its treatment of women, it would be useful to remind ourselves that sexual violence in the popular media may be a way of highlighting issues of violence against women and may also, in many cases, be an echo of pervasive prejudices in our society (24).

(Last August, an appeals court ordered a new trial, saying that the men had not received a fair trial because of "pervasive community prejudice").

Basquiat's — a black Everyman and a self-portrait — is not an active revolutionary like a Black Panther but a man prevented from becoming all that he wants by pervasive, irrational prejudice and driven insane because of it.

The issue here is the extent to which judges, who are expected to be impartial arbiters, reflect pervasive cultural prejudices.

But when he returned to the South, it was to the same pervasive and brutal prejudice he had left behind.