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How to use gravamen in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gravamen? Here are some examples.

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Yes, the gravamen of harm in the plaintiff's point of view is the damage to economic interests.
The gravamen of his 30 years of research is that public schools are notoriously inefficient at converting additional dollars into improved student learning.
But the gravamen of our dispute with the majority here is its conception of United States law on review.
It is the practice of the defendant in relation to its contractual and statutory requirements that forms the gravamen of the plaintiffs' complaint.
In cases involving accidents, the gravamen of the offence is whether the prosecution established the accused was driving carelessly, and not the consequences of the driving.
The gravamen in respect of each charge is the allegation of indecency, without which the committee are unlikely, in my view, to find Serious Professional Misconduct.
Barnes's principal gravamen seems to be that I am reluctant to accept his own, maximalist image of Constantine.
Falsehood, which was in ordinary cases the gravamen of the complaint, was omitted altogether in the information against him.
It is as yet unclear that continuing irresponsible expansion will be the gravamen of President Xi Jinping's foreign policy.
The real gravamen of the charges... lies in the habit it has of making itself disagreeable by asking the Powers that Be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is the breach of this affection and preference which constitutes the gravamen.
The gravamen of the charge is so well known to the reader that the simple account which Phineas gave of it need not be repeated.
Now she was face to face with the gravamen of her depression, with an alert morning mind to sift over its elements.
The gravamen of the charge against the police was that they had found the knife before Pellizioni was tried.
The famous telegram put forward by France as the gravamen, or chief offence, was not communicated to the Chamber.
This hazarding of Mrs. Owen's favor became now the gravamen of his offense, the culmination of all his offenses.
The gravamen of the heresy seems to have been the suggestion that there were men not of the progeny of Adam.
You will observe, of course, that the gravamen of this consists in my having done so after the confession.
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