Willy is defined by the spirit of competition and by its corollary, invidious comparison.
At a time of consumer belt-tightening and corporate financial woes, people don't need more taxes--especially ones that are invidious, discriminatory and hidden.
Financial firms are not exactly loved by the public: foreclosing on a mortgage is far more invidious than slow service at the checkout.
The suit accuses the Obama administration of using a "comprehensive, pervasive, invidious and organized scheme" to deny tax-exempt status based on groups' political views.
And he would eliminate New York's invidious corporate alternative minimum tax--New York being one of the few states that imposes this administrative nightmare of an exaction.
The committee's answer is that its job is not to make cross-country comparisons, which can often be invidious, but to reflect changing trends within individual countries.
Especially invidious is the fact that inflation hits lower-income earners disproportionately hard, as they spend a higher percentage of their income on fuel, electricity and other necessities.
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In this manner, it further invites invidious comparisons between the treatment afforded countries still party to a hostile military alliance and that provided friendly, democratic nations in the developing world.
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Also appearing before the committee of MPs, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education David Bell said the errors made by officials had put Mr Gove in a "invidious position".
Yet it is now in the invidious position of being a long-term manager of a large portfolio of state-owned properties with all the risks of political interference that this entails.
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Such a tactic is calculated, methodical, invidious and remarkably effective.
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Dobson, who for all his faults is a fairly sensible type of politician, is angry at being forced to run in a rigged election, finds winning a rigged contest has put him in a very invidious position, and feels he could have won it in a "one member one vote" contest, honestly and squarely.
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