as in necessarily
because of necessity
if we refuse to tolerate bigotry, do we become, ipso facto, as intolerant as those whom we condemn?
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Any persistent disparity between racial or social groups is taken as ipso facto proof of invidious discrimination.
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Charles Kesler, National Review, 20 June 2024
Therefore, logically speaking, ipso facto, acting should cause de-escalation.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2015
Since the operation was not vetoed, Adams must, ipso facto, have acquiesced.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
Legal: The gift of the check was revoked ipso facto by the death of Grandmother, the donor.
—Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
Insufficient representation of specific racial groups in a freshman class, a company’s diversity report or the composition of its board for Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures, can all ipso facto reveal the absence of diversity.
—WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
Next, the court pointed out that there were serious procedural flaws in the issuance of the garnishment summons, so severe in fact that the garnishment of the funds was ipso facto invalid and the funds would have to be returned to the LLC.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
Charles Kesler, National Review, 20 June 2024
Therefore, logically speaking, ipso facto, acting should cause de-escalation.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2015
Since the operation was not vetoed, Adams must, ipso facto, have acquiesced.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
Legal: The gift of the check was revoked ipso facto by the death of Grandmother, the donor.
—Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
Insufficient representation of specific racial groups in a freshman class, a company’s diversity report or the composition of its board for Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures, can all ipso facto reveal the absence of diversity.
—WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
Next, the court pointed out that there were serious procedural flaws in the issuance of the garnishment summons, so severe in fact that the garnishment of the funds was ipso facto invalid and the funds would have to be returned to the LLC.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
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