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kentucky consular center (kcc)

kentucky consular center (kcc) A U.S. Department of State facility located in Williamsburg, Kentucky. It gives domestic (U.S.) support to the worldwide operations of the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office. It manages the Diversity Visa (DV) Program. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...

Batson challenge

Batson challenge [from Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the Supreme Court ruling that prohibited the striking of jurors on a racial basis] : an objection in which one party argues that the other has used the peremptory challenge to strike one or more prospective jurors from the panel for a discriminatory purpose in violation of the equal protection guarantee of the U.S. Constitution called also Batson objection compare third-party standing NOTE: Batson challenges were originally applied to racial discrimination in jury selection but are now also applied when gender or sometimes ethnic background is an issue. The party making the objection usually must establish by evidence a prima facie case of discrimination, at which point the other party has the burden of advancing a neutral reason for the strike. ...

commonwealth

commonwealth 1 : a nation, state, or other political unit: as a : one founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement by the people for the common good b : one in which supreme authority is vested in the people c : republic 2 : a state of the U.S. used officially of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia 3 often cap : an association of self-governing autonomous states more or less loosely associated in a common allegiance (as to the British crown) 4 often cap : a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the U.S. used officially of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands ...

rank order number

rank order number The number that Kentucky Consular Center gives to the entries of DV Program (lottery) as the computer selects them. The first entries chosen have the lowest numbers. The Visa Office of the Department of State gives winning entries a chance to apply for immigration according to their rank order number for their region. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...

Blindfish

A small fish Amblyopsis spelaeligus destitute of eyes found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky Related fishes from other caves take the same name...

Blue grass State

The Sate of Kentucky a nickname alluding to the blue grass region where fine horses are bred...

Dangleberry

A dark blue edible berry with a white bloom and its shrub Gaylussacia frondosa closely allied to the common huckleberry The bush is also called blue tangle and is found from New England to Kentucky and southward...

east central

of a region of the U S generally including Kentucky and West Virginia...

VerbarGymnocladus

A genus of leguminous plants the Kentucky coffee tree The leaves are cathartic and the seeds a substitute for coffee...

Iroquoian

Of pertaining to or designating one of the principal linguistic stocks of the North American Indians The territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes of whom the Five Nations or Iroquois proper were the chief extended from the shores of the St Lawrence and of Lakes Huron Ontario and Erie south through eastern Pennsylvania to Maryland that of the southern tribes of whom the Cherokees were chief formed part of Virginia the Carolinas Georgia Tennessee and Kentucky All of the tribes were agricultural and they were noted for large communal houses palisaded towns and ability to organize as well as for skill in war...

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