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If it was, it could constitute a "serious violation" of the conditions of his house arrest, said justice Alexandre de Moraes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Columbia Law School business professor Eric Talley added: “This doesn’t constitute Paramount Skydance coming out and waving a big white flag — but it is a small white flag of surrender.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The bulk of these payments will flow to the roughly 150,000 farms that constitute the largest 10% of crop producers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
“While a degree of uncertainty remains over what a final proposal could constitute, we see the ultimate impact on Sandoz as likely to be limited.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"It does not specify what constitutes hate speech, how it will be defined, on what criteria, or how those who produce such speech will be identified," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
But California regulators and consumer watchdogs disagree with AT&T on what constitutes a reliable replacement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
After recounting the various permutations of a central bank throughout American history, he concluded that the Fed’s independence constitutes a “special arrangement sanctioned by history.”
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Any diversion or embezzlement of funds constitutes a profound betrayal of the faith reposed by millions of devotees in one of the most sacred institutions of Hindu faith."
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The existence of this romantic tendency constitutes at least a small part of the emotional makeup of most mathematicians, and is perhaps surprising to those who think of mathematicians as cold rationalists.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Walter, 66 years old, is now at the center of a federal probe into the workings of his financial empire and whether private-credit deals involving his companies constituted fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The ANJ said the site's continued availability -- where betting odds on different events are updated in real time -- constituted advertising.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
In its report, the committee said it had tasked itself with establishing "what constituted 'due process' when it came to political appointments".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
What followed was an hour-and-47-minute conversation between Weist and two investigators attempting to determine whether the work she had described as artistic research truly constituted investigative experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Scientific theories are complex things, for they are constituted by interlocking bundles of theories, facts, and equipment.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It found Kim guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a "collusive... trading act constituting market manipulation".
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
According to McKinsey & Co., the total quantum industry — computing, communications and sensing — could grow into a $97 billion market by 2035, with quantum computing constituting the lion’s share.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
This isn’t just an expensive proposition — it’s also a psychological danger, constituting behavior that is likely to get men to withdraw from the real world and attachments to real people.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025
County are natives of Mexico and Central America, Asian immigrants make up the second-largest group, constituting 16% of people in the county without legal authorization, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025
A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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