Sentence examples for historically subjected from inspiring English sources

Opponents of Proposition 8 argued that the voters had gone too far in taking away the right to marry from gay men and lesbians, who had been identified by the court in May's ruling as being historically subjected to prejudice.

Mr. McCartney, who is not a Jewish grandparent but is an admirer of Fats Waller, explained on his Web site that the album title was a reference to Waller's 1930s hit "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," and not to any other "anatomical interpretation" suggested by "those who have historically subjected his every move to microscopic scrutiny".

We celebrate breaking the silence that bereaved parents have been historically subjected to.

A higher rank indicates a CpG that has likely been historically subjected to strong purifying selection and thus a genetic variant at the CpG is considered more likely to be deleterious.

Under longstanding principles, government actions that fall heavily on "discrete and insular minorities" historically subject to prejudice and stigma are to be given particular scrutiny.

(Turin and Naples, both historically subject to strong French culinary influence, in fact share Italy's most refined pastry and chocolate-making traditions, but the exuberant character of Naples could hardly be further removed from the restraint of Turin).

"As has been the case whenever that question is asked, all issues of membership are now, and have been historically, subject to the private deliberations of the members," Payne said on Wednesday during his annual pre-tournament address.

The town of Campione del Garda (located on the west coast of Lake Garda) and its access road have been historically subject to rockfall phenomena with risk for public security in several areas of the coast.

Like the arguments made by the lawyers for those who seek to overturn Proposition 8, and by a group of prominent Republicans earlier this week, the government's brief says any law attempting to ban same-sex marriage must be subjected to heightened scrutiny because it singles out a class of Americans, historically subject to discrimination, for unequal treatment.

(1988) 47 Cal.3d 550 (Belair), we held that when a public entity's design, construction, or maintenance of a flood control project poses an unreasonable risk of harm to property historically subject to flooding and causes substantial damage to it, the property owners may recover damages for inverse condemnation under section 19.

The question before us is whether the reasonableness rule developed in the context of flood control improvements along natural watercourses should apply to cases in which a public entity diverts and rechannels water under a flood control system of dikes and levees that fail in a severe rainstorm, causing damage to properties historically subject to flooding.