Sentence examples for against a class of from inspiring English sources

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Ms. Windsor, told the justices that the 1996 law had produced "discrimination for the first time in our country's history against a class of married couples".

Members of Congress from the New York region said the agency was essentially discriminating against a class of homeowners by interpreting the federal disaster law, called the Stafford Act, too strictly.

"If he endorses amendments such as this, which blatantly discriminates against a class of people, you would then have to wonder who and what is next," said Roberta Sklar, the spokeswoman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Given that the Lawrence case established gay sex as a protected right, Mr. Olson argues, the state must demonstrate that it has a rational basis for discriminating against a class of citizens simply for engaging in that behavior.

"Assigning a religious or traditional rationale for a law does not make it constitutional when that law discriminates against a class of people without other reasons," wrote Heyburn, an appointee of President George HW Bush.

Not until the nineteenth century did doctors and lawmakers commonly acknowledge a fixed category called sexual "inversion," and not until the twentieth century did the United States see "widespread discrimination against a class of people on the basis of their homosexual status".

Now Russia has given us "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism," another XXL, in-a-class-of-its-own monument.

Dillingham's spirit lives on today in Congress and the states, in lawmakers who rail against immigrants as a class of criminals, an invading army spreading disease and social ruin.

People may not be keen on their violence as a response, but there is no doubt that their grass-roots solution is dismantling a traditional system that makes women less vulnerable and discriminates against them as a class of people.

"Sometimes," said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "what's in the best interest of a particular plaintiff could be against the interest of a class of beneficiaries".

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