gravamen
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"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
“The conduct constituting the gravamen of Sachs’s suit plainly occurred abroad,’’ Roberts wrote.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2015
What mattered, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, was the core, or gravamen, of the lawsuit.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2015
But the gravamen of the economic charge against her is the neglect of manufacturing industry.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013
This cartoon was the gravamen of his offence.
From Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy Defence by Robert G. Ingersoll, at Morristown, N. J., May 1887 by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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