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  • adjective Not vindicated.

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un- +‎ vindicated

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  • The federal government would also be authorized to prosecute whenever “the verdict or sentence obtained pursuant to State charges left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.”

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Hate Crime Bill: Some did not flinch 2009

  • The federal government would also be authorized to prosecute whenever “the verdict or sentence obtained pursuant to State charges left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.”

    Hate Crime Bill: Some did not flinch 2009

  • It explicitly says, in fact, that federal charges should be pursued if the state verdict “left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Hate Crimes and Double Jeopardy: 2009

  • The federal government would also be authorized to prosecute whenever “the verdict or sentence obtained pursuant to State charges left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.”

    Hate Crime Bill: Some did not flinch 2009

  • It explicitly says, in fact, that federal charges should be pursued if the state verdict “left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Hate Crimes and Double Jeopardy: 2009

  • The bill expressly states that defendants prosecuted in state court may be prosecuted for the same crime in federal court, if federal officials determine that "the verdict or sentence obtained pursuant to state charges left demonstrably unvindicated the federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence."

    The Return of the Thought Police Wendy Kaminer 2007

  • What began benignly as solicitude for the disadvantaged shortly became a dragnet for the aggrieved, even those whose grievances had to be induced to consciousness after years of unvindicated sublimation.

    Post-Election Prospects in Canada 1993

  • She had left the chapter house before he had given his word he had no intention of departing unvindicated.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • She had left the chapter house before he had given his word he had no intention of departing unvindicated.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • Hastings left me, or to shut me out from the succession to his whole estates, to which -- from the fear of disclosing his great secret -- he did not put any bar in his will that would have been at once an acknowledgment of my legitimacy, I would still sacrifice all, and stand alone, friendless and portionless in the world, rather than leave my mother's fame and my own birth unvindicated.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

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