Sentence examples for be complainant from inspiring English sources
noun
The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff
If the perpetrators of MH17 are identified and caught, they can be brought before the international criminal court, its location a testament to Holland's dedication to justice and to Nelson Mandela's dictum before the Lockerbie trial: "No one country should be complainant, prosecutor and judge".
"Many of them will be complainants," Lord Judge said.
I said that these are complainants.
Were complainants visited by Unite representatives or lawyers in order to persuade them to change their testimony?
But, as a British citizen, the real story here is who the complainants are complaining to.
"He portrays himself as being a complainant," said Sgt. Arnoldo Martinez, who was working that day.
(An inexact equivalent of the partie civile in Anglo-Saxon law is the "complainant").
At the centre of Operation Midland was the complainant, Nick, a pseudonym to hide his real identity.
"You need to reach a conclusion on what was the complainant's state of intoxication," he told jurors on Thursday.
The problem, Molloy said, is the complainant had "specific memories that are demonstrably wrong".
Would-be complainants are also advised not to trawl for obscene Web sites, noting that "men are particularly vulnerable to pornographic addiction".
