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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Invidious distinctions and judgments divide people, but ‘invidious’ shares a root with ‘envy’ not with ‘divide.’ 700+ ghits, e.g.,
By joining Kaiser Permanente’s brief, CMA joins the nation’s largest HMO in opposing individious discrimination in medicine.
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The first is the fact that The Da Vinci Code is that most elusive and individious phenomenon – a word-of-mouth success.
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Key Issues in Sociological Theory
Arnason, Jóhann P. (2003), “East and West: From individious dichotomy to incomplete deconstruction”, in: Handbook of Historical Sociology, ...
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Simultaneously, it also paradigmatically stands for what Mary Ann Doane refers to as the “individious network of invisible power relationships …
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There is no spirit of individious distinction, in thus separating the more intelligent from the less intelligent students, but merely an effort to …
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