exclusionary
having the effect of excluding or shutting out someone or something: In wealthy suburbs with good schools, exclusionary zoning policies often block affordable housing development and keep out low-income people.
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How to use exclusionary in a sentence
His brilliant contributions to science—such as the famous exclusion principle that would eventually earn him a Nobel Prize—had cemented his reputation as a genius.
The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung - Issue 93: Forerunners | Paul Halpern | November 18, 2020 | NautilusPerhaps they suffer from greed, or resentment over exclusion from the highest rungs of government, or disappointment from their lack of a broader intellectual influence.
In 2018, the USITC imposed a 25-year exclusion order based on a default judgment against Organik Kimya, a chemicals firm that destroyed evidence after being accused of trade secrets theft by Dow Chemical.
Looming trade secrets decision may be ‘catastrophic’ for Ford and Volkswagen’s EV ambitions | dzanemorris | October 23, 2020 | FortunePride in hatred, mingled with faith in exclusion and capitalism.
The Inclusivity Of Savage X Fenty’s Fashion Show Was A Game Changer | Nandi Howard | October 7, 2020 | Essence.comTwo other scientists, Feng Zhang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and George Church of Harvard University, are also often credited as early co-discoverers and developers of CRISPR technology, and their exclusion will fuel arguments.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for CRISPR ‘Genetic Scissors’ | Jordana Cepelewicz | October 7, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
And LEGO has certainly taken their time recanting those exclusionary decisions.
Why It Took LEGO So Long to Get the Memo: Girls Like Science, Too | Samantha Allen | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Maliki government is Shiite, exclusionary and anti-Sunni.
Iraq Is Vietnam 2.0 And U.S. Drones Won’t Solve The Problem | Leslie H. Gelb | June 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost banks, real estate, insurance, and even golf club contracts have an organized crime exclusionary clause built into them.
Where Have Japan’s Yakuza Gone? | Jake Adelstein, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky | March 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese days, Greaves regards traditional religion in general as both dangerously superstitious and exclusionary.
Perhaps Zionism should be recognized for what it is: an experiment in Jewish nationalism that is unavoidably exclusionary.
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