(v. t.) To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, there is a reasonable chance that retirement plan assets in Delaware qualified plans are insulated from judgment creditors, but the best course is to maintain adequate insurance protection and follow an aggressive prejudgment strategy in serious cases so you don't have to resolve the issue in a bankruptcy proceeding.
(2) "I always think," he said, "that it is entirely wrong to prejudge the past."
(3) Timmermans said the commission’s investigation aimed to “clarify the facts in an objective way” and “start a dialogue with Polish authorities without prejudging” the outcome.
(4) By setting the bar lower from the outset, the EU is negatively prejudging the outcome of international climate negotiations and sending the wrong signal to the rest of world."
(5) It prejudges consideration by the procurator fiscal and has wrongly led the Scottish and UK media to report that I have been charged with an offence.
(6) Until that happens and until the court case is resolved, it is not for the BBC to prejudge matters and confer a legitimacy on the BNP that even they do not claim today."
(7) Seeing as those submarines will inescapably remain based in Scotland (no one pretends a bomb with a St George's cross on the top could fly) the move prejudges an independence referendum in a country where opposition to Trident is mainstream.
(8) Sturgeon said the deal would ensure, at the end of the transition period, “a fair review mechanism that did not prejudge the outcome and that would not default to a funding proposal that delivered population-driven detriment to the Scottish budget”.
(9) The US and Israel warn that UN membership for Palestine will prejudge the outcome of future peace talks and have hinted at retaliation.
(10) "We started out by wishing to give two grand prix not because you prejudge in any sense of the word," said Hegarty.
(11) Therefore it would be wrong to prejudge any findings although we recognise that these matters are of serious public concern."
(12) Heydon saw in the 2010 case of South Australia v Totani, also about control orders, another opportunity to pillory Soviet communism, Bills of Rights and Adelaide, in one splendid, if bewildering, paragraph : Lord Scott’s proposition, notable for its cautious unwillingness to prejudge the French and Soviet dictators, was much more specific than Lord Hope’s.
(13) The sweep by the UK Border Agency, mainly at rail stations, has caused a furore, partly because the Home Office issued press releases and Twitter updates saying how many "immigration offenders" had been arrested, apparently prejudging their guilt.
(14) Three colonial types (one prejudged as Escherichia) of lactose-positive rods were catalogued on each of the most commonly used selective media, MacConkey Agar, Endo Agar, and E M B Agar.
(15) Wyvill and Spurr will further claim that Southwood is incapable of hearing costs because he showed “actual or apprehended bias” by prejudging their conduct when they had no opportunity to defend themselves.
(16) The answer is, because in the US military it is a separate offense – unlawful command influence – if higher-level political officials or military officials prejudge a case and start talking about it in public.” “What actually happened on the ground?
(17) However, the Foreign Office directed ministers and parliamentary aides to abstain, saying it was wrong for the government to prejudge the issue or act as a jury on a case that may yet be referred to the international criminal court.
(18) But David Allen Green, legal correspondent for the New Statesman, tweeted: " For the @ukhomeoffice to say those arrested are already #immigrationoffenders is to prejudge their cases and possibly contempt. "
(19) Try telling a high court judge you hadn't prejudged matters if she reads an email like that.
(20) Asked about the possibility of arson, county Sheriff Bill Gore said earlier on Thursday he wouldn't prejudge the investigations.
Prejudice
Definition:
(n.) Foresight.
(n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
(n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
(n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
(n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is Obama doing about the prejudice and violence faced by brown people here at home?
(2) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(3) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(4) Irrational fear, anxiety and prejudice are not less common among health professionals than in the community generally; they require attention in HIV-related educational programs.
(5) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(6) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(7) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
(8) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
(9) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(10) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(11) The MPs also reject weakening the FoI law on the release of information that would prejudice collective ministerial responsibility, or inhibit the frank exchange of views within the government.
(12) Two unfortunate factors influencing the choice of drugs for clinical trial have been prejudice from the physician and commercial interests.
(13) The possible reasons for this, apart from poverty and malnutrition, are ignorance, fear and prejudice in availing themselves of public health services and reliance on bomohs and handiwomen and fatalism.
(14) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(15) Inequality, precarity and social division are the causes of our new callousness, helped by the rightwing press, but the real point is that Labour has only two choices in response: either continue to cringe before the prejudices of the public or try to change their minds by arguing for a distinct, simple and compelling alternative.
(16) And even tell them what they don't like to hear – that they bring prejudice and double standards in our own situation."
(17) Prejudice against the condom and a gap in the STOP AIDS campaign reasoning are considered as possible grounds for the resistance to the recommended condom protection.
(18) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(19) They demonstrate, at worst, a cavalier prejudice against work that the correspondents deemed shoddy.
(20) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.