Sentence examples for multiple jeopardy from inspiring English sources
Nowadays companies risk confronting, as Microsoft did, a double or even multiple jeopardy: separate prosecutions from one of America's two trust-busting agencies (the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission), from the European Commission and, in many cases, from individual American states as well.
Many women are the victims of "multiple jeopardy" and "interlocking systems of oppression" (bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, p. 59).
Multiple jeopardy is just one of the pitfalls of diversity or sensitivity programs, which Training magazine figures are now used at half of the 136,605 U.S. companies with over 100 employees.
King, Deborah K., "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology", Signs, 14(1), 42-72., 1988 ALSO IN: Feminist Social Thought, Meyers, Diana Tietjens (ed)., New York: Routledge, 1997.
That even though racism is for sure alive and well, at the same time our identities are not purely a matter of multiple jeopardies and intersecting oppressions and spectrums of disadvantage?
I was even willing to go along with the multiple children-in-jeopardy stories and the inevitable Sept. 11 references, mainly due to the show's sincerity and heart-on-sleeve quality.
(Online Jeopardy is multiple choice, which makes it much easier than the TV version).
The Constitution's double jeopardy clause bars multiple punishments for the same offense, so if there is no punishment, there is no double jeopardy.
The distinction between civil and punitive matters because the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense; if a subsequent sentence is not punishment, it cannot amount to double jeopardy.
But on Thursday, those negotiations slowed dramatically, putting a potential deal in jeopardy, according to multiple sources.
For those who have been too busy worrying about their fantasy drafts to notice, several NFL teams are in serious jeopardy of having multiple games blacked out this season.
