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marginalize
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  • He argues that "the sixties swept away lofty oratory and marginalized elaborately constructed prose," to the point where the American public now distrusts formality in language as insincere.†   (source)
  • The mayor was a careerist, a consummate professional, and he knew how the game should be run against an ethnic challenger: marginalize him, isolate him, acknowledge his passion but color it radical, name it zealotry.†   (source)
  • Alienated, marginalized, they were ISIS recruits in waiting.†   (source)
  • "Women are marginalized in the developing world," says Catherine.†   (source)
  • And Saima herself would be marginalized in the household, cast off like an old sock.†   (source)
  • But the law was applied much more broadly, and soon thousands of mothers with children living in poor, marginalized communities where drugs and drug addiction are rampant were at risk of prosecution.†   (source)
  • Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized.†   (source)
  • We have been unwilling to commit to a process of truth and reconciliation in which people are allowed to give voice to the difficulties created by racial segregation, racial subordination, and marginalization.†   (source)
  • There's a strong correlation between countries where women are marginalized and countries with high maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Within the State Department, the trafficking office has been marginalized, even relegated to another building.†   (source)
  • But another reason may be the youth bulge in Islam--partly because of lagging efforts on family planning--and the broader marginalization of women.†   (source)
  • "These were clinics focusing on the poorest, the marginalized, in the slums," said Cyprian Awiti, the head of Marie Stopes in Kenya.†   (source)
  • The unfortunate reality is that women's issues are marginalized, and in any case sex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue.†   (source)
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