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The thesis of my answer was (supposed to be) The last Civil War was the product of suspicion and distrust among disperate cultures (and not the referendum on slavery we've been taught).
Picketts charges 2009
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There is also a disperate Sunni insurgency aimed at toppling both the Saana government and the Saudi Royal family.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010
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Any test with less disperate impact would have to be a test with that same format, not some other hypothetical format.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Tidbits from Ricci on the Second Circuit’s Disposition: 2009
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It almost reads that the employer must objectively believe that they would actually lose the disperate impact claim.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Rules Against New Haven in Firefighters’ Case: 2009
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Except that I read the decision as making disperate impact at least somewhat harder.
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And the decision lays out fairly clearly, I think, that avoiding disperate treatment is the priority over avoiding disperate impact where both might arise.
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I have no brothers or sisters, only my wife, some relatives in the UK, and, some disperate and disenfranchised ones on this side of the pond.
Re-emerging... Zillabob 2009
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Except that I read the decision as making disperate impact at least somewhat harder.
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Raymond: Bravo to Mr. Obama for giving a quick history lesson of the social justice communal thread that links these two disperate communities
HuffPost Liveblog: Liveblog! Dems Play "Meet Me In Ohio" 2008
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I'm just suggesting that, just maybe, there's actually more in common with the disperate politics than we like to admit when we're in the midst of having a hissy-fit because the Cons got elected again.. or for that matter, because Obama got elected in the U.S...
Um, yeah, but that's different. CC 2008
dlebauer commented on the word disperate
based on the usage, a misspelling of 'disparate'
January 24, 2011