7 sentences with 'prejudices'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prejudices and other words derived from it.
• « The Greeks as a whole were less isolated and more cosmopolitan when the war ended, meaning that at least some of their prejudices about Greek superiority had been silenced. »
• « With this in mind, it is not only medieval prejudices or contemporary geopolitical conflict that have created the idea that Islam is an alien entity to Western civilisation. »
• « Despite the prejudices of later Renaissance thinkers that the medieval period was nothing more than the "dark ages", without learning or culture, there were very important intellectual achievements in the period 1000 - 1400 AD. »
• « At that time there were a lot of received notions and prejudices, especially against working with human cadavers, which prevented large-scale experimentation. »
• « Overall, one of the most glaring failures of the Scientific Revolution to overcome social prejudices was the marked tendency of male scientists to use the new science to reinforce sexist stereotypes rather than break them down. »
• « By the 17th century, the old prejudices against coal, so foul and unpleasant, had given way to the need for its use as a source of fuel for heat. »
• « Here we need to stop for a second and review our prejudices, what we might call our "cerebral chauvinism". To think that we will always be superior to computers is not only to deny the direction of the wind, but the wind itself. Can we live without them? »