Sentence examples for Supreme from inspiring English sources

Nostalgia was bittersweet in Roddy Doyle's The Guts (Jonathan Cape), which caught up with the music-mad hero of The Commitments, weighed down by illness and middle age, while Elizabeth Jane Howard, now 90, added a final volume, All Change (Mantle), to her upper-class family saga the Cazalet chronicles – still comfort reading supreme.

The most famous case was that of John Profumo, who paid the supreme penalty not directly for his association with Christine Keeler but for lying to the house when he denied their connection.

The future of Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms hangs in the balance after facing a rigorous challenge from conservative justices on the supreme court.

On Saturday, within a few minutes after 2 15am, the exact time when the year changed, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters including the country's nuclear dossier, appeared on national TV, declaring the new year one of "harmony and solidarity with the government".

She is facing charges of "insulting members of parliament through paintings" and "insulting the Iranian supreme leader".

The supreme court is heavily entwined in the Hill case because it was the court's own 2002 ruling, Atkins v Virginia, that banned the death sentence for "mentally retarded" prisoners.

Sanders also repeated his determination to overturn the 2010 Citizens United supreme court decision, which gave rise to unrestrained spending on elections.

Hill's attorney, Brian Kammer, issued a statement after the stay: "All the doctors who have examined Mr Hill are unanimous in their diagnosis of mental retardation, so there is no question that his execution would have been in violation of the US supreme court's 2002 ruling in Atkins v Virginia.

On Monday, the US supreme court will hear oral arguments in the Sheehan case, to decide whether and how disabilities regulations apply to police policies and procedures during arrests.

4. The US supreme court in 2002 banned executions for prisoners who are "mentally retarded" – in other words, those with learning difficulties.

Nine votes in the US supreme court can straighten out what has happened to our law.