Sentence examples for were stigmatized by from inspiring English sources

She yearned to be in the main part of the school, not in the vocational wing, where she felt students were stigmatized by teachers as stupid.

Some readers argued that hate crime laws are justified as compensation, either for historic, state-supported disadvantages, or for current imbalances in our system of justice: Because blacks were denied equality for much of our history, because gays were stigmatized by law, the law should now lean the other way until society views all citizens as equals.

They were stigmatized by deeming homosexual practice of any kind as worse than incest, worse, even than rape, as Thomas Aquinas taught.

People who are gay were stigmatized by referring to sex even between two men who love each other as "sodomy" thus linking it to the violent crime of gang rape in the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Girls abducted by the LRA were forcibly 'married' to combatants, and those who escaped with their babies were stigmatized by their communities.

Around forty percent of the respondents perceived that they were stigmatized by other people because of their illness (Table  2).> The prevalence of anxiety symptoms among epileptic patient was found to be 33.5 % whereas prevalence of depression was 32.8 % (Fig.  1).

In the work of Goffman, the stigma against family members of people with mental illness (PWMI) is described as "courtesy or associative stigma, which is the process by which a person is stigmatized by virtue of association with another stigmatized individual" [ 1].

How, for example, can they avoid being stigmatized by colleagues?

"Downtown could be stigmatized by this event," Mr. Weisbrod said.

And will they be stigmatized by their status as victims?

Gay youth across the country are stigmatized by their peers.