How To Use Court In A Sentence
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My girlfriend wants me to go to the basketball court.
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On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.”
Storyteller
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However, added the mayor, city hall will naturally respect the court's order, whatever it may be.
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Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
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An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
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Your Honour, we have not appealed against that, but what we do say is that we have sufficient standing to obtain either of the prerogative writs if ultimately the Court were minded to grant them and we do not really need more than that.
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They were close to a little village which the English called Agincourt, and, though that is not quite its right name, it is what we have called the battle ever since.
Young Folks' History of England
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Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
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The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised.
Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
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Less than a minute later he had gone past the courts, down a stairwell and opened the fire door.
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Christie was involved in an angry bust-up with reporters and photographers outside the courtroom.
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It also emerged on Tuesday that actress Sienna Miller had obtained a court ruling ordering phone operator Vodafone to disclose data relating to other users - so-called third party disclosure.
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Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
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These cases come first on the court's calendar.
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Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our simple submission is the majority in the Court of Appeal got it right for cogent and sound reasons.
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After 12 months, we will convert the asphalt area into tennis and netball courts.
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We also had civic buildings, including a courthouse.
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He shouldn't be courting her let alone possibly wanting to marry her.
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In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
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The figure is expected to double with legal costs and more court battles.
The Sun
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The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_.
An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
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She is coping so much better with being on these courts and the attention.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you think Hillary wants to sit by and watch McCain appoint Supreme Court Justices, block universal health care, send more money to Iraq in exchange for body bags?
McCain raises $21.5 million in May
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Then the court will decide who must take care of minor children unless the parents have appointed a guardian.
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Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way.
The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
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His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
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Now the boy's being hauled before the courts for having been part of a plot to overthrow some tinpot dictator in Equatorial Mongolia or some such place.
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She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on.
Cate Edwards lands first law firm job, joins the ranks of Washington lawyers
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She is the one who asked to recuse the Los Angeles court.
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The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
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He intends to fight the case to the Supreme Court.
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A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
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The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!”
A Renegade History of the United States
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The court sought to stretch modest finite resources so far as possible to meet the parties' needs.
Times, Sunday Times
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I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court.
A Royal Engagement
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Even where, for example in an unfair dismissal case, the employment tribunal makes an order that the employee be re-employed by the employer in one way or another, if the employer fails to do so there is no contempt of court.
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He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
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Your fellow potential jurors will be chosen at random from the pool available, and then slimmed down to just 12 in court, again at random.
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So weeding out potential jurors with unchangeable views on guilt or innocence has the elaborateness of celebrity trials like that of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted at the same courthouse in 1995.
Jackson jury Q&A tests media's grip
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He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The Truth is, I had heard so ill a Character of the Town Amours, as being all Libertinism, and more especially the Inns of Court, that I dreaded to launch on so dangerous a Sea; thinking each
The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
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It has a pool, two tennis courts and an equestrian centre.
Times, Sunday Times
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The practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion rejected by the minds and hearts of men.
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You could see it in her body language and the way she struggled to move properly on court.
Times, Sunday Times
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More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin.
Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
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During that period of time, he made numerous court appearances, sometimes unrepresented and other times represented by counsel.
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He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished.
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As executrix you are required to value the home on the inventory you file with the court, so you could simply divide that number by four and base your offer on that value.
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Scepticism failed to save her from scenting danger in the ardent courtship of a rich young Philadelphian.
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The nobles of his court believed he had simply gone away from them for a time to meditate.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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‘I ask the court for an exemplary sentence,’ said Mr Rubira after the court heard two months of testimony.
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You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.”
The Abbot
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Police said the charges have been filed in municipal court because the injuries were minor.
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Why, I'm sure that Saint John the Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do Populist's votes had nothing to do with the corporate interests in North Carolina that he might find necessary to court later (or pay back for an earlier campaign donation).
Tonight: The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
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One challenge is that the courts are being asked to cede some power.
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The court granted her a decree of divorce.
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And the high profile court battles have shown how difficult it is to get medical experts to agree on how to interpret the facts of a case.
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Get to know your senior pastor: take some cues from courting.
Christianity Today
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Evidence from pages 46, 47 and 48 of the transcript of the examination of Luke Brock was read into the court record.
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Where the lord of the manor had a demesne farm, the court appointed a reeve to supervise the farming activities, using labour services and collecting rents.
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The Admiralty court was declared by statute to be a sovereign court.
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He was remanded in custody to crown court.
The Sun
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It was not for the court to consider whether to extend time on its own initiative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is that an affidavit filed in the present proceedings before this Court, your Honour?
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The only problem that I see with asking and getting an answer is the possible prejudgment on issues that could come before theCourt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
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The prisoner was brought to court for trial.
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Thousands of people can live in a hutong which is made up of hundreds of quadrangular courtyards each surrounded by four homes.
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Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
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The lawyer requested a break in the court case, but the judge demurred.
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Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
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This may be due to the cheetah's prolonged courtship behavior, which requires extensive territory.
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They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
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That's our court, that's within our jurisdiction, within our grasp.
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Edward III tried to assert his independence of the regime at court.
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And when I see people in the court, I must confess I watch them.
KICK BACK
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The judge adjourned the crown court hearing.
The Sun
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The court handed him a suspended sentence of two months in prison, with a probationary term of five years.
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Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below.
TREASON KEEP
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When appearing in court, all three men refused to cooperate, claiming the government has no jurisdiction.
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Son of a court equerry in Munich, he was apprenticed in 1582/3 to the court painter, Hans Donauer.
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After his long stretch as an untouchable hero and saint (courtesy of hagiographer R Bolt) it was about time that creep More was taken off his pedestal.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This usage proceeded, in part, from the notion of consanguinity between every member of a clan, even of the lowest degree, to his chieftain, and the affability and courtesy with which the head was in the habit of treating those over whom he ruled.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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The 35-year-old was charged with receiving stolen goods but failed to appear in court.
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The court proved immune to these piteous cries and upheld the sentence, anyway.
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The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts.
London Films
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The Act allows, for the first time, children to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make court applications independently.
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The judge set aside the verdict of the lower court.
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Robert is joined by Vincent Courtois on cello and Cyril Atef on drums in a chamber jazz group of the highest order.
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Which is not to say that the courts would hold the dispute justiciable – my guess is that they would still be reluctant to do so.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
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T he swimmer who brought the Boat Race to a halt exchanged his wetsuit for more formal attire when he appeared in court yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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They acted like some surreptitious athletics officials who could not wait to be the first to give the media a scoop and doubtless court future favour as a reward.
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The legislation could have given a right of appeal to the objectors in the same way as it is given to applicants but this it has not done and they are dependent on the limited powers of this court to intervene by way of judicial review.
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The solid rank of police officers lining the courtroom opened to let them pass.
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It would be unforgivably discourteous not to come down to dinner.
SANDS OF TIME
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During war, the right of postliminy can only be claimed in the tribunals of the belligerent powers, and not in the courts of neutrals; for by a general law of nations, neutrals have no right to enquire into any captures, except such as are an infringement of their own neutrality. [
The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
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The government has announced that culprits in the scandal will be tried by military court.
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But the real problem with citing thorough court review as a standard for denying clemency is that none of the 152 executions Bush approved would have landed on his desk had the cases not already passed through all the courts.
The Texas Clemency Memos
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In these cases no defence is offered so they are signed off electronically by the court on evidence supplied by creditors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The court martial highlighted confusion among high-ranking military officers about whether conditioning was lawful or not.
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Well, nevertheless, the Court appreciates the effects of this cooperation among counsel, and so states on the record.
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Courts may punish the unlawful party indirectly by refusing to protect the void civil-law acts.
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You don't flaunt your wealth in a courtroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Walking someone to the door will once again be considered a courteous gesture.
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The Supreme Court has yet to rule on the case.
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After further review of the matter, I stick to my belief that the court got this one wrong.
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The case stems from a complaint brought in Belgian court by two men and a consumers 'organization that challenged higher male life-insurance premiums.
EU Adviser: Insurance Pricing Is Discriminatory
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A lack of contrition would be, for example, if the defendant was purporting to express regret for his crimes in the courtroom, but simultaneously sending anonymous tweets to the effect that the trial is a sham, the judge is bought off, etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Subpoena to Twitter, Demanding Identification of Anonymous Critic of Corbett’s
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At least two cars rammed Mr Ahmed's Rover before he leapt out and fled, only to be caught on the roundabout, the court heard.
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The men make their first appearance in court today.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
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The teen was committed to DYRS last year, the source said, after being "adjudicated," or found guilty, in Family Court of an armed robbery.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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When the sentences were passed at York Crown Court in May 2001, he walked free because of the time he had spent in custody on remand.
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Uncle Shim shared these thoughts both as a courtesy to our family and as instruction to me.
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The accused is linked to the bombing that took place in Abuja," said Hein Louw, the magistrate overseeing the court proceeding.
Nigerian militant leader charged over car bombs on independence day
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He suggested the justices could "begrudgingly" affirm the lower court "on alternative grounds" and take up some of the questions it avoided in its previous ruling.
Justices Leery of Bush's Guantanamo Stance
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Here the mufti, or jurisconsult, appears to play a role remarkably similar to that of the roman jurist or contemporary European law professor (in providing Gutachten or opinions to courts).
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He believes that there's a distinct possibility this is the real ossuary of James, although he admits that the current evidence would not hold up in court.
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He cowered in a hedge fearing she would return to run him over, the Feilding High Court was told.
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Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court.
United States v. Leonard Peltier
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This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing.
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Separate from civilian courts, the military judicial system handles violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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In frustration, she talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
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A and chronic smelly while stumbling out the telly lyrics courtesy of www. killerhiphop.com Im so fly Im so ferry and the way I flow is very ginsu or machete, move my pencil move his deli platinum band platinum bezzie make a straight girl out of lezzie magazine mac bezzie keep my windows like the prezzie press a button than Im stuntin my roof look like its duckin meter go
WN.com - Business News
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Maybe then the Supreme Court would stand up for equality of opportunity, and Gandhi's vision of a casteless society could be realized.
Caste Out
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Ankur Bhatt has a great piece on this on The Court.
Athanasios Hadjis Rules in Lemire v. Warman : Law is Cool
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Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.
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The knee injury that kept her away from the courts for more than eight months was a huge hurdle to overcome.
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She fidgeted in her chair during the 10-minute hearing before Superior Court Judge Elden S Fox.
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This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
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On appeal to the CAFC, the court stated that the applicants "misapprehended" the BPAI's decision, noting that none of the rejected claims contained the limitations which prompted the reversal.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Due to the large numbers of those indicted, the court clerks eventually tired of writing the charge in full and began to abbreviate it.
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A curb on foreign libel claimants using English courts in the hope of big payouts is also being considered.
Times, Sunday Times
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In two cases, courts have struck down such laws, but these cases seem aberrational.
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A court's competence to grant an anti-suit injunction seems to derive from its jurisdiction to adjudicate.
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That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Television newspeople hail the benefits that broadcasts from the Court could provide to the public.
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Now, the Pastons had recourse to the courts, but also felt able to join the political conflict themselves.
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The courts eventually upheld her claim to the property, but only because she had no son to inherit it.
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It is likely that the court will accept that this evidence is admissible, since the strict common law rule is generally ignored.
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In court, both defendants apologised.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gunmen also torched a van parked in the courtyard, as well as a large toolshed.
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At his behest, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has been looking at the legality of the EU constitution and it has now announced that it would not rule on it until after there was a final decision on the fate of the EU treaty.
Germany to dump EU constitution?
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They range from reserved and courtly to warm and expressive.
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The main focus for improvement was the school's internal courtyard, a new sandpit with cover, a revamped pond changed into a herb garden and the creation of play and quiet areas.
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After giving the aforesaid directions, the court again had two options before it.
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Trying to determine where the bulk of investors' money has gone is the primary goal of the bankruptcy court.
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A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
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He was convicted and jailed for four years and three months for evading 8,000 excise duty at Maidstone crown court.
The Sun
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He is due to face a court-martial on drugs charges.
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True, Olbermann and Patrick would also make plenty of references to pop culture, but the references came across as charmingly haughty, as if the anchormen were showing us that they had interests that extended beyond the court or field.
The Enthusiast
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He would also wake her when he feared intruders in the middle of the night, the court heard.
The Sun
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We are grateful for the tolerance and humanity of the court panel as the trial unfolded.
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The Supreme Court has directed the State Governments and Union Territories to abide by the norms.
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Did the Conservatives win courtesy of the division of the opposition vote between Labour and the Liberal Democrats?
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Ultimately, under the Court's decision, a successful plaintiff will have to prove she was singled out for disadvantageous treatment in the workplace.
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To fly with such a burden in daylight is simply to court disaster.
Development of Aircraft in War
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Inmates feel isolated and are already overburdened by the tension of courts and hearings.
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The title elevates her to the most highest ranking woman in the court besides the Empress.
Unusual Historicals
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In fact in the recent case before the High Court, the counsellor failed to come up with a clear finding.
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Blackmore and Oler are scheduled to appear in provincial court in Creston on Jan. 21.
Canadian polygamist leaders charged; reaction mixed
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The court declared that no money would be awarded for ecological restoration.
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Getting there from the town involves a taxi or the hotel's courtesy bus up a very steep hill.
The Sun
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So I began running up and down the court pigeon-toed, just like Dominique, hoping that would make me an ethereal dunker.
In the Time of Bobby Cox
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The common characteristic of criminal summary procedure in a narrow sense is the exemption or substantial reduction of courtroom investigation procedure.
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Their convictions were reaffirmed by the higher courts and their sentences were similarly upheld.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
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Zoobow is just another name for a nunchaku – courtesy of THR (The HighRoad).
The Volokh Conspiracy » What is a zoobow?
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The case was settled out of court two weeks ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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The principle of comity is that when one court exercising proper jurisdiction renders an opinion concerning a specific case, then that opinion is binding on other courts to which this same case (same parties, same facts, same issues) is re-presented to a different court under some pretext, except where the second court is exercising appellate review over the first decision.
The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
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She took a long drink of water, swallowing it slowly as she looked around the courtyard.
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If we consider the independence of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court has the right to determine the constitutionality of all legislation.
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The figure on the right is Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador to the English court of Henry VIII.
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He said the company's internal disciplinary hearings procedure have been found by the Labour Court to be fair and proper.
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It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.
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Anyone who refuses to pay an on-the-spot fine for allowing their pet to foul a footpath, for example, could be taken to court and find their name in the newspapers.
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She said it was regrettable that a policeman, who had taken an oath, had come before the court and deliberately misled the court.
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He said most of the trouble was down to a handful of hard-core troublemakers who were well known to police and the courts.
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In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence.
France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
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This general rule of construction should especially guide a court of admiralty in interpreting a contract of bottomry and respondentia.
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In all three cases the conclusion reached was that a deliberate intention to breach the order was not a necessary element for a finding of contempt of court.
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The court also upheld the decision of the assistant recorder to reject the counterclaim which the defendant sought to introduce.
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Category: elena kagan, supreme court nomination, war of jenkins 'ear
News media starting to get ornery over Kagan thing. | RedState
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Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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Our already overcrowded court rooms could be swamped with such otherwise upright and law abiding citizens.
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The Court of Appeals held that Hallberg was judicially estopped from indemnity from Portland because his claim was factually inconsistent with claims he made defending the previous suit on which he had prevailed.
One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The quality of legal argument and analysis in American courts, in particular state supreme courts, is often quite poor on issues of private law that the readers of this blog are likely to think arcane or technical.
Balkinization
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A man who attacked a prison officer while in a court dock has been jailed for three months.
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Like the trial court, we, too, find the case of California Medical, supra, 79 Cal.App.4th 542 applicable and dispositive to the issue raised on appeal.
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Maluleke assured him that the court offered him more protection than any other place and that it was important he felt able to speak freely and truthfully.
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The court heard that he still maintained his innocence over the offences which were years old.
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A cross-court forehand brought a break point saved with a 133 mph serve.
Times, Sunday Times
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After being a supernumerary for twelve years, M. Popinot would no doubt die a puisne judge of the Court of the Seine.
The Commission in Lunacy
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They could not commit the defendant to the crown court to deal with bail.
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She is a freewheeler and likes to have many males to court her and vie for her attention.
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Latin courtesy is a highly refined art, of which exaggeration is a part.
Communicating In Latin America
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For the first time appeals can be broadcast live, allowing the public to view the court at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.
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A Superior Court judge ruled after a preliminary hearing Monday that there was enough evidence for 41-year-old Melvin Shane Sparks to stand trial on six counts of lewd acts on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16.
Melvin Shane Sparks, MTV Dance Judge, Ordered To Trial On Child Oral Sex, Lewd Acts Charges
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The solution is a world government with a full legislature, courts, and enough military strength to enforce its power.
