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 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
It is the breach of this affection and preference which constitutes the gravamen.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
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
