Sentence examples for dilute black from inspiring English sources

They have pointed to an article he wrote in 1959 that appeared to support strengthening the state's law against interracial marriages, and to his votes in the state senate that appeared to dilute black voting strength.

At the time, Mr. Jones was president of the Laurel-Jones County branch of the N.A.A.C.P., which maintained that consolidation would dilute black administrative power over the city schools.

In addition, the Supremes will weigh in this spring on whether a death-penalty drug is cruel and unusual, on whether Texas can draw electoral districts in ways that dilute black voters' power, on what amounts to pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and on whether judicial candidates have a right to solicit campaign funds directly.

The act, which outlawed literacy tests and other obstacles to voting, was an important tool for civil rights activists to challenge other barriers to black political participation, such as gerrymandering of city council, state legislature, and congressional districts in order to dilute black voting strength.

The 1991 United States Supreme Court decision found that this arrangement diluted black votes in breach of the Voting Rights Act, which it said applied to judicial elections.

One musician, arguing that whites had grown rich by persistently diluting black music, claimed with some cynicism that at last the black man had learnt how to commercialise his own product.

Analysis of several 5'RACE clones from total RNA of eumelaneic, non-dilute (black) skin indicated a sharp peak of transcription start sites (TSS) at position -28 bp to the A of the translation start ATG of the SILV gene (GenBank: EF065525).

Some voters argued the move diluted the black vote across the state, confining it to just a few districts that amounted to tokens for Democrats.

MutL proteins were serial diluted in black 96-well microplates (PerkinElmer Inc, Waltham, MA) in 100 μl volumes.

Opponents also worry about the type of crude that had been running through it, diluted bitumen — a black, tarlike substance mixed with benzene and other liquids propellants that if spilled is particularly difficult to clean up.

The customary sensations that buildings give us — of secure enclosure, of masses of matter firmly supported — are diluted by a black gap, a mere quarter inch wide, that runs along the bottom and top of every interior wall, and even at the base of weight-bearing pillars, so that everything, subtly, floats.