Sentence examples for unjust preference from inspiring English sources
Abigail Fisher, a white college applicant, sued the University of Texas in 2008 for denying her admission on the grounds that the college gave unjust preference to racially diverse students.
Consider, he asks, the consequences of "the self-worship, the unjust self preference" nourished in boys growing up in male dominated households in which "by the mere fact of being born male he is by right the superior of all and every one of an entire half of the human race" (1869, 86 87).
In chapter IV of The Subjection of Women, Mill goes so far as to claim that "[a]ll the selfish propensities, the self-worship, the unjust self-preference, which exist among mankind, have their source and root in, and derive their principal nourishment from, the present constitution of the relation between men and women" (Mill, Subjection of Women, 86).
Nussbaum rejects "two unsatisfactory extremes" -- the ideas that women's preferences must always be taken at face value and that preference for an unjust status quo should never be honored.
Although this question of access is valid in questions of many public health interventions, the preference of HCWs in questions of preferential access to vaccines and treatments is not unjust in these terms.
The violation of the Act to Regulate Commerce, complained of in the amended bill, was an asserted discrimination between localities by a common carrier subject to the act, averred to operate an unjust preference or advantage to one locality over another.
