Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...
...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...
...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...
...custom, the U.S. flag is often called "the red, white and blue." Should the nation prohibit the abuse of any red-white-and-blue decoration? Should it be a crime to burn red-white-and-blue bunting? Or foreign flags of red, white and blue? Incidentally, should "the red, white and blue" be considered a flag when represented in black and white...
...Scalia emphasized that the constitutionality of sentencing 16- and 17- year-olds to death depends on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." Applying that standard with chilly mathematical precision, Scalia calculated that of the 37 states now permitting capital punishment, only twelve prohibit a death sentence for offenders under 18, and three others forbid it for those under 17. "This does not establish the degree of national consensus this Court has previously thought sufficient to label a particular punishment cruel and unusual," he concluded...