Sentence examples for a learned counsel from inspiring English sources

He was knighted in 1603 and was created a learned counsel a year later.

Today he's still a freshman senator, but a guy the elders are turning to for learned counsel.

As the learned counsel say: Hunh? "It is probably correct that 'recuse' is a transitive verb," he half-concedes as he argues his case in Scalia v. Safire (with me presiding in this, my courtroom, and not recusing myself), "but it seems to me common and proper usage, with some transitive verbs, simply to omit the object that is clearly implied from the context.

The expert is the attorney; that's why we refer to him as learned counsel.

Their verdicts do differ hugely, as learned counsel (like the David Eady of long ago) are wont to tell their clients.

Those summoned were not required to give their evidence under oath, nor were they subject to cross-examination by learned counsel.

Two of them, Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears, were civilian Pentagon employees; the third, Rick Kammen, was the team's "learned counsel," required for commission death-penalty cases.

James, the eager mollifier, was too ready to seek refuge in convoluted references to "distinguished outside learned counsel" mixed with patronising explanations for the plebs on how large corporations delegate small details like paying off villains.

Learned counsel for the State Department and the White House are giving answers to such questions that would make medieval scholastics and others who prize logic and semantics blush with embarrassment.

Mr. Gompertz persisted, and Mr. Hoon said: "Learned counsel is suggesting that there was some sort of conspiracy right across government for all these people to be involved in giving out small parts of information which he had concluded provided a picture.

But when the moment arrives to consult one, it ain't there, and he has to borrow the relevant passages from one of his classroom of learned counsel.