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It just makes you think of one of the biggest double-standards that still exists in our world today: How where you are born determines where you can travel for the rest of your life.
Anushay Hossain: How Your Citizenship Determines Your Travel Anushay Hossain 2011
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It's one of the most unbelievable double-standards that exists today: Where you are born determines where you can travel.
Anushay Hossain: How Your Citizenship Determines Your Travel Anushay Hossain 2011
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Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's murderous assault on his own people has exposed once again the United Nation's hypocrisy, double-standards and total lack of credibility when dealing with international human rights.
Alan Elsner: UN's Failure on Libya Exposes Its Hypocrisy on Human Rights Alan Elsner 2011
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This isn't about the loss of a great American – which Ted Kenedy was – it's about highlighting the double-standards of the Democraps.
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Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz contrasts the American response to its economic crisis with the measures it shoved down the throats of poor countries during their crises, and discusses why rich-world double-standards ( "Buy American/European" provisions in bailouts that only discriminate against poor countries) contribute to a global disillusionment in the values that the rich world nominally espouses: democracy, transparency, and so on.
Boing Boing 2009
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Sanford is just representative of the pervasive hypocrisy and transparent double-standards in the GOP.
Sanford took taxpayer-funded trip to Argentina last June 2009
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On the one hand, it seems pretty clear that double-standards and bait-and-switch tactics are not necessarily the best way to win people's hearts and minds.
John Mirisch: Constellation Blvd. Is the Wrong Choice for the Westside Extension Century City Station John Mirisch 2010
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And here you thought the gender double-standards of "Mad Men" were entirely retro fiction, you silly post-feminist reader.
The cast of 'Glee': Too racy in GQ? Jen Chaney 2010
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On the one hand, it seems pretty clear that double-standards and bait-and-switch tactics are not necessarily the best way to win people's hearts and minds.
John Mirisch: Constellation Blvd. Is the Wrong Choice for the Westside Extension Century City Station John Mirisch 2010
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Just another log on the fire that illuminates the hypocrisy and double-standards of the Liberal Left.
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