The dissents and respondents wish to invoke the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as incorporated through the Fourteenth, to constrain a state's neutral efforts to provide greater educational opportunity for underprivileged minority students.
Some of them argued against various heresies, and a few appear to have been neutral efforts to popularize the life of some saint or other early leader of the church, including a number of women.
In an era with rapidly changing justice and health care systems in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, quality research can contribute to marked improvements in our knowledge about efficacious, cost-effective, and racially and class neutral efforts to improve public health and justice related outcomes.
Also notable was the majority's rejection of the school district's effort to describe the policy as a "content-neutral" effort to provide a solemn atmosphere at football games.
And despite race-neutral efforts to recruit minorities, African American students on campus say the school's recruitment of minorities has fallen short since the state banned affirmative action through a ballot initiative in 2006.
But in the intervening years, Ms. Harrison has silenced some critics by financing such partisan-neutral efforts as the oral history program StoryCorps, regional reporting projects based at public radio and television stations, and a major coming initiative to reduce the number of high school dropouts.
The firm promises to be neutral in efforts by its employees to join the Teamsters Union, which has been supporting the drivers' protests and legal actions against misclassification as contractors.
In many ways, the carbon-neutral campaign mimics other efforts that use markets to save the environment.
Bordeleau committed to doing a "deeper analysis" to come up with an action plan, aiming for "bias-neutral policing efforts".
In its public pronouncements about its activities, Washington toes a careful line, insisting that "internet freedom" is a politically neutral human-rights effort, not a way of undermining authoritarian regimes – some of which, after all, are officially allies.
