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However initial indications suggest that the hackers were discriminating about who they chose to break into, according to two people familiar with the wave of corporate cybersecurity investigations being launched Monday morning.
From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2020
He asked Trump whether this meant that U.S. officials were discriminating against Christians.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2016
Some customers were discriminating enough to look for them.
From Time ● Oct. 7, 2014
Ben Gilman, R-N.Y., received thousands from the church, and, in return, as chairman of the International Relations Committee, he complained on several occasions that European nations were discriminating against Scientology.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2011
But they were discriminating enough to perceive that there was danger.
From The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
