The invidiousness is the creation of a two tiered pension system in this country under the nose of the present day Liberals from what was a one tiered pensions system created by past Liberal governments, that is being dismantled by Harper and returned to its former two tiered state without a single wimper from the present day Liberal government. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries]
Thus Pedro lost all his property because of his invidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
We may name without invidiousness among these, Mrs. Colfax, Miss Maertz, Miss Melcenia. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Like a true progressive, using harsh language to distract from the utter invidiousness of the comparison. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Junior High School Student Ordered Not To Wear Pro-Life T-Shirt:] Reference
Indeed, Fifa's invidiousness becomes somehow more pronounced when brought to bear upon a developing nation. From Wordnik.com. [Sepp Blatter's slick patter sticks in South Africa's craw] Reference
The logic, but not the invidiousness, has been transferred to public consideration of sports star salaries. From Wordnik.com. [Jeternomics and the CEO] Reference
But they seemed well used to the enforcement of the distinction, and to find therein nothing of invidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
He sums this up in the principle of the non-invidiousness of the metaphysical contraries (Hartshorne 1970, 268). From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
He rejoiced in the present meeting, however, as the best of all possible answers to such a piece of invidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
"I do not," I said, "like the word 'real' There's a disagreeable invidiousness about it, and your mouth, you being what you are, should be the last to use it.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917] Reference
Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Has any previous U.S. president insisted so adamantly, with such ferocity and apparent relish, with such relentless and skillful manipulation, upon such domestic invidiousness?. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: Dear President Bush] Reference
Of the numerous opinions expressed or unexpressed, ranging from polite incredulity to unholy joy or open contempt, the only quality which all these opinions held in common was their invidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Many of you will remember the congressman I've omitted names in this article in order to avoid the invidiousness that is most political commentary who used a brief speech on the House floor to describe GOP health care plans as wanting Americans to "die quickly". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Silva: Kant on the Campaign Trail] Reference
Many of you will remember the congressman (I've omitted names in this article in order to avoid the invidiousness that is most political commentary) who used a brief speech on the House floor to describe GOP health care plans as wanting Americans to "die quickly". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Silva: Kant on the Campaign Trail] Reference
But there was enough character in the original body to give its distinct tone to the enlarged regiment; its officers were all of the first enlistment, and the common sufferings and successes which soon fell to their lot quickly deprived this distinction of any invidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
It is certain that he himself was the last that owned the title; for it was a long time after, when he was sent proconsul into Spain against Sertorius, that he began to write himself in his letters and commissions by the name of Pompeius Magnus; common and familiar use having then worn off the invidiousness of the title. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the reproach of falsehood. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
Now, the problem with judging invidiousness is that it requires you know what fairness is. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
As Grotius, in one of his poems, speaking of knowledge, and the invidiousness of it, not inelegantly expresses it. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
We had with us neither spades nor pickaxes, and if love of ease surmounted our desire of knowledge, the offence has not the invidiousness of singularity. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference
Pythagoras was the first who abated of the invidiousness of the name, and from sopho ` s brought it down to philo'sophos, from a master to a lover of wisdom, from a professor to a candidate. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
I can't tell you how disgusted I am when I read this history, and I'm not sure that those of us who haven't studied the history really understand the pervasiveness and invidiousness of the mistreatment of African Americans. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Before I gave thee this lesson, which is a better than thou ever gavest any one, and easier to remember, thou wert accusing me of invidiousness and malice against those whom thou callest the great, meaning to say the powerful. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
If there be anything of seeming invidiousness in the official right thus conferred on the President, it is in appearance only, for the same right of approving or disapproving a bill, according to each one's own judgment, is conferred on every member of the Senate and of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 3: Franklin Pierce] Reference
Indeed, throughout his whole life, Mr. West was, in this respect, singularly fortunate; for although the condescensions of rank do not in themselves confer any power on talent, they have the effect of producing that complacency of mind in those who are the objects of them, which is at once the reward and the solace of intellectual exertion, at the same time that they tend to mollify the spirit of contemporary invidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself] Reference
It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the reproach of falsehood.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
Bar could turn the whole thing into an indictment of the fast set and modern morality, and save all the invidiousness of exposing a woman’s private life. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
(Which is also not to say that the Korematsu Court was using this modern test, because it wasn’t — it was doing something more like a straightforward assessment of invidiousness.). From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: July 2006 Archives] Reference
Against this, is to be set some difference (as I believe) in the value of the two offices, though I have not yet been able to ascertain it; and the degree of invidiousness and clamour which my receiving any new favour (for such this would undoubtedly be considered) would be subject to, especially at a moment when Government are rather under difficulties, and when I must expect so many competitors, for a thing in many respects so desirable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents] Reference
6.) just so likewise here, to make his argument free from invidiousness and acceptable, he introduces the members speaking: that when they shall hear nature answering them, being thus convicted by experience herself and by the general voice, they may have nothing further to oppose. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
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