Sentence examples for asserting the privilege from inspiring English sources

It is said that a witness can protect himself against some of the many abuses possible in a secret interrogation by asserting the privilege against self-incrimination.

Asserting the privilege requires the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to certify legally the potential harm to national security.

The problem he faces is that asserting the privilege could be considered by the administrative law judge handling the case as evidence that can help establish the failure-to-supervise charges.

Lytton Strachey, the elongated and stork-like object of obsession for Gertler's lover Dora Carrington, was prepared to buy paintings for which he did not care: as a way of asserting the privilege of being able to do it.

As the majority opinion states: 'Nothing before us indicates that the hazard of incrimination faced by Knox was less substantial than that faced by Marchetti, or that Knox would have been disqualified for any other reason from asserting the privilege * * *.' At 83, 90 S.Ct. at 367 n. 6.

Nothing before us indicates that the hazard of incrimination faced by Knox was less substantial than that faced by Marchetti, or that Knox would have been disqualified for any other reason from asserting the privilege in defense of a prosecution for failure to comply with § 4412.

Are they finished with asserting the privileges that have always accrued to men.

Petitioners asserted the privilege in their answers to the Attorney General's petitions; they did not testify at the Board hearings; they again asserted the privilege in the review proceedings in the Court of Appeals.

Judge Greene said later that Mr. Reagan's claim of executive privilege would be stronger if the Bush Administration also asserted the privilege over the diary material.

Whether to assert the privilege is a difficult choice because of the potential for losing one's position in the government for not being cooperative in an investigation.

Before final judgment was entered against this petitioner, she asserted the privilege not to incriminate herself under federal law, and was sentenced for standing on this ground.