Sentence examples for bench hearing from inspiring English sources

(The Zong owners' representatives had highlighted such a phrase in seeking their claim at the King's Bench hearing).

M. NourbeSe Philip's 2008 poetry book, Zong!, is based on the events surrounding the massacre and uses the account of the King's Bench hearing as its source.

Vizcaino and a couple of others on the Yankee bench heard it.

The bench heard a range of arguments from 10 convicted rioters attempting to have their sentences reduced.

In mid-April of 2009, the police in Guatemala City found Lyttle sleeping on a park bench, heard him declare, in English, that he was an American, and took him to the U.S. Embassy.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, June 23 , 1934P. 9 Owning no radio, we stole down into the garden of our apartment house, and there sitting on a stone bench, heard the fight coming from the radio in the ground-floor apartmment of a lady whose windows were open.

Early October will also see the bench hear arguments in a major case on affirmative action in public universities.

The average panel holds two or three judges, but a rare nine-member bench heard this case.

Demonstrating an acute awareness of his rapidly waning power, Mr Musharraf has now reportedly agreed to the former Supreme Court judges' reinstatement on the condition that "they don't sit on benches hearing cases against the president", according to an unnamed official.

He was blocked from appearing on the company's behalf at its appeals court argument in Manhattan after two appeals judges suggested that he had been retained to create a conflict of interest that would have prevented a former law partner who had been elevated to the bench from hearing the case.

The Supreme Court of Japan is made up of 14 justices and a chief justice, who sit as the Grand Bench to hear constitutional cases and cases that a petty bench (made up of five of the justices) has been unable to decide.