"purpose" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Intent Doesn't Matter "The issue is not whether a discriminatory purpose caused the present districts," Judge Dorsey said in his order.
- So long as current state practices were racially neutral and not motivated by discriminatory purpose, the state's obligation was fulfilled.
- Pruett wrote a similar letter, in which he said that Dobson "cherry-picked a phrase to shore up highly (in my view) discriminatory purposes.
- Lawyers for the town said the at-large system had not been instituted for racially discriminatory purposes.
- The school board, asking the Justices to dismiss the appeal, said that recent developments proved that there was no discriminatory purpose behind the board's choice of district lines in 1992.
- Nonetheless, the statistics was insufficient "to prove that the decisionmakers in his case acted with discriminatory purpose.
- The defendants had to show that the prosecution had a "discriminatory purpose," Judge Murphy said, and failed to do so.
- For years, the Justice Department has denied preclearance unless the jurisdiction could show that its plan had no discriminatory purpose and would not weaken black voting power.
- The court also ruled that there was no evidence that the state Legislature had been motivated by discriminatory purposes in creating the new judgeships.
- The at-large system was favored by state policy, he said, and was not instituted for racially discriminatory purposes.
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