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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
marginalise .
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Examples
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A form of education that ignores or marginalises the moral and religious dimension of the person is a hindrance to full education, because “children and young people have a right to be motivated to appraise moral values with a right conscience, to embrace them with a personal adherence, together with a deeper knowledge and love of God.”
Education 2009
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I indeed think that condemning compensated dating itself is immoral, because it marginalises the young people involved.
Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: “Compensated Dating” and the use of Pejoratives 2009
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The two-party system is a real problem, both in how it imposes this type of dualism on a massive complex country like the US and how it marginalises other political voices which then coalesce around these lunatic fringes because they have no other place to go.
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A law allowing 16-year-olds to opt out of prayers in assembly devalues and marginalises religion in schools, Dr Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales, has warned.
Foisting fake Christianity on the young « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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So, rather than the divine acting as a source of legislation as in Anscombe, Paul thus marginalises any legalistic obligatoriness more forcefully than she does.
Paul is rather paradoxically in many ways a stridently secular thinker Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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So, rather than the divine acting as a source of legislation as in Anscombe, Paul thus marginalises any legalistic obligatoriness more forcefully than she does.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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“I am concerned that this is the thin end of the wedge and could be just the start of a process that devalues and ultimately marginalises the provision of collective worship in schools”.
Foisting fake Christianity on the young « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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According to Andrew Lansley, this latest initiative was not discussed by the Shadow Cabinet, adding more weight to the suggestion that Cameron marginalises many senior MPs.
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That embodies just precisely the problem at the heart of "fair trade" when that goes wrong: it further marginalises the poor, the people at the bottom of the heap.
Slave-Made Goods by Country: A List from the Department of Labor Bill Powell 2009
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Hence the salience to Fuller's reputation of his role as Hart's natural law opponent marginalises some important strengths of his scholarship.
Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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