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How to use the word animus in a Sentence?

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If this were something like Covid that was affecting the entire population, we would have seen a much more robust response from the government, i'm not claiming the Biden administration has any animus to the LGBTQ community. I just think because we're a limited community, they didn't put the full weight and resources of the federal government behind stopping this early.

Christopher Vasquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ T ] Terry McAuliffe anti-American viewpoint based on racial animus is being spread throughout schools in the country, then you have Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland, joining forces with a renegade school board association trying to call the parents who are concerned about this ‘ domestic terrorists ’ – while not revealing that Merrick Garland own son-in-law has an interest in putting these CRT materials into schools and is making a profit off doing that.

Terry McAuliffe

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was — Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups, it is the intention of the SPLC to fix animus and hostility on the organizations it places on its hate map.

Floyd Lee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

How can someone insult and demean their own people to defend others when those that are being defended have no say in it or even have no animus towards the supposed offender?

Thomas Filingeri

added by strikerino
3 years ago

There's clearly some animus here towards the President. I think that's pretty apparent on both sides, i just think that there's a lot of desire for publicity here. ... I think you've got to take this with a grain of salt.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This repackaging does little to cleanse [the policy] of the appearance of discrimination that the president’s words have created, based on the evidence in the record, a reasonable observer would conclude that the proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus.

Associate Justice

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Peter Strzok's manifest bias trending toward animus casts a pall on this investigation…His bias impacted his decision making and he assigned to himself the role of stopping the Trump campaign or ending a Trump Presidency, this is not the FBI I know.

Trey Gowdy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Typically in criminal law, motive is not an element of a criminal offense, however, motive can be evidence of your intent (to commit a crime). Why you did something can tell us about what you meant to do when it happened. Hate crimes require that (an intent to commit crime) be motivated by some animus, some hatred of other people.

Danny Cevallos

Found on CNN
6 years ago

You might have imagined that if people were shooting black suspects for some type of racial animus, you might imagine there would be a change before and after Ferguson.

John Lott

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I want contrast between Democrats, it is a job interview about what you are going to try to do and not every Democrat thinks the same way. We should be mature about it and welcome it without personal animus.

Jeff Danielson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus)

Anacharsis Cloots

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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