Exempel på shun

• At least among humans, these innovators might be shunned or expelled from the group.

• They embraced modernity, in the shape of mechanization, with fervent zeal, but they were shunned by many of their more conservative colleagues.

• Her reference to being "lucky" is made in comparison to her college roommates who come from families where such female gatherings are shunned.

• While on horseback, the fair equestrian shunned the lace, frills, and furbelows worn by her pedestrian sisters.

• The voluntarism of the one saw possibilities in the ordinary mechanisms of state management, which the other shunned as proceeding from corrupt reason.

• Available tests lack por tability and tend to be shunned in clinical practice by physic ians.

• Even today, political participation is often stigmatised and shunned by ordinary people.

• Most rural migrants shunned the cities if they could.

• After too many misdemeanours the officer and gentleman was on his own, shunned by the unforgiving society in which he lived.

• Had they done nothing but prey on ordinary people, they would have been shunned with or without state intervention.

• While the courts lacked enforcement powers, they did publish their findings, and non-compliers were shunned as trading partners.

• They shared the chores and spent all their leisure time together, shunning the company of others.

• Moreover, there were prurient pleasures to be gained from the spectacle of experiences that had to be shunned in everyday life because of official disapproval.

• Their superiority was due to success in shunning dubious magic, spells, or incantations.

• Data from the inquiry suggested that, after 42 years of age, these same people redefine themselves by shunning occupational cynicism which, they worry, may impact upon pupils' learning.