constitutive
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But the statute is equally important at the local level, where most Section 2 litigation plays out and where its constitutive value is more apparent.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.
From Reuters ● Apr. 15, 2023
Rather than seeing federal Indian policy as a constitutive feature of the emerging administrative state, “Indigenous Continent” discounts it, strangely suggesting that “reservations were a sign of American weakness, not strength.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
The trp operon is constitutive and remains ON by default, whereas the lac operon is repressible and therefore is OFF by default.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
But is it not the electrical relatedness that is constitutive of the atom as such?
From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
