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Synonyms for attaint

a mark of discredit or disgrace

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Synonyms for attaint

bring shame or dishonor upon

condemn by attainder

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However, representatives of the suborder Miliolina, almost absent in the section of Zambujal de Alcaria, attaint important relative abundances in some assemblages.
According to Johnson (1976), in the Jurassic carbonate platforms the representatives of the suborder Lagenina attaint the maximum diversity in the middle and inner part of the platforms.
Further one, let [x.sub.0] and [y.sub.0] be the points where f attaints its minimum and maximum respectively on the interval [a, b].
(B) Let us choose arbitrary a, b [member of] N such that [pi]/2 < a < b < [pi] and further one, let [x.sub.0] and [y.sub.0] be the points where f attaints its minimum and maximum respectively on the interval [a, b].
It effectively attaints - tars, stains - fifty persons rather than one; it is fifty attainders rolled into a single bill.
If Colorado may not attaint fifty persons on the basis of their status, neither may it attaint fifty thousand.(39) Here too the greater numbers merely compound the constitutional wrong.
Nevertheless, laws burdening "investment bankers" or "draft evaders" do not thereby become attaints on the burdened persons.
One central weakness of Amar's argument based on attaint is that he ignores such difficulties with the conclusory assertion that Amendment 2 burdens person "for who they are." Amendment 2 "attaints" persons only if the ratifiers of Amendment 2 knew the identity of all persons burdened by Amendment 2.
(15) During the medieval period, jury verdicts could be quashed through a process known as attaint. (16) A second jury, with twice as many members, was empanelled to review the verdict.