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

They begin by admitting and accounting for that seeming incongruity between the first three and the last two acts, which has always been the gravamen of critical objection to 'Don Carlos'.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin