gravamen
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If they cannot, they will be expected to submit a gravamen to the Professional Status Committee and the Board of Trustees before they are hired.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
"The gravamen of the claimed wrongdoing is that the Laundries exercised their constitutional rights and essentially made no statements to Plaintiffs or law enforcement," the motion states.
From Fox News ● Mar. 30, 2022
What mattered, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, was the core, or gravamen, of the lawsuit.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2015
But are hipsters the gravamen here or victims of circumstances, when steady job prospects are remote and social premium is placed on a good coffee high?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014
This hazarding of Mrs. Owen's favor became now the gravamen of his offense, the culmination of all his offenses.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
At this council gravamina were adopted which show that constant encroachments were made on the sphere of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
