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The court has also recognized that a desire to observe a particular animal species can constitute a legally cognizable interest.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
On top of its potential communicative importance and intrinsic value as a cultural behavior, accumulative stone throwing involves durable primate material culture, the loss of which would constitute the erasure of primate heritage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Collectively, they constitute a really big source of human-caused climate change,” said Emily Williams, the lead author and a climate scientist at UC Merced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
And at the top of the pyramid is a single person — Jacob — who is responsible for an overwhelming majority of the relationships that constitute my life.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
The first bill, AB 1642, would direct the Department of Toxic Substances Control to create scientific standards for what constitutes a safe home and provide guidance on how to properly remediate homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Hoskins said in an interview that the rulings reflected differences of opinion over what constitutes fair and accurate language, noting that the appellate courts had also sometimes rejected revisions made or approved by lower courts.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
More generally, I am not sure what constitutes an emolument.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Constitutional Council said it had found that Article 1 of the legislation "constitutes an infringement that is neither appropriate, necessary, nor proportionate" to the freedom of expression and communication for under-15s.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
They don't work on the Sabbath, but they have a fairly loose understanding of what constitutes "work" anyway and usually spend their free time dancing to jazz records.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
A Greenlandic commission is to present a highly anticipated report Friday to determine whether Denmark's forced contraception of thousands of the Arctic island's indigenous Inuit constituted a "genocide".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
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 authorities are trying to determine whether the activity constituted fraud, one of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The spokesman did not say whether gasoline constituted an “illicit material.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
We were scheduled to arrive at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport at 2:35 a.m. local time, which constituted a thirty-minute journey into the future.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
He proposed that home and work are our first and second “places,” with “people places” designed to strengthen local ties and foster the common good constituting these “third” spaces.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
KP.3.1.1 is now the single most common coronavirus strain circulating nationwide, constituting an estimated 36.8% of specimens for the two-week period that ended Saturday, up from 12.7% a month ago, CDC data show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
They employed it to write syllables or letters constituting grammatical endings.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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