Sentence examples for corespondent from inspiring English sources

When Parnell was named corespondent in Capt.

Through the 1880s he was perhaps the most important ally of the greatest 19th-century Irish nationalist, Charles Stewart Parnell, but, after Parnell's involvement as corespondent in a divorce case, Dillon repudiated him for reasons of political prudence.

On Dec. 24, 1889, Captain O'Shea filed a petition for divorce, naming Parnell as corespondent.

The issue was never put to the test, for, a month later, Dilke was cited as corespondent in a sensational divorce suit.

When O'Shea saw that he could not share in the estate and had no further reason for preserving the appearance of marriage, he filed a petition for divorce on Dec. 24, 1889, charging adultery and naming Parnell as corespondent.

For some time following the O'Shea divorce case (1889 90), in which Parnell was corespondent, O'Brien attempted to mediate between the Parnellites and their opponents, although he sided with the majority in rejecting Parnell's continued leadership of the Irish Home Rule struggle.

It was also during this time that Lugosi was the subject of a national scandal when his wife of three days filed for divorce and named actress Clara Bow as corespondent.

(Getting up and pacing back and forth — with growing intensity) Now it comes, Jimmy — what I wanted to tell: I don't remember much about getting there — or my choosing the corespondent.

He eventually left Scotland for a post as foreign corespondent on Illustrated magazine.

As of 1857, the relaxation of certain laws significantly increased the number of English divorces, but the courts still refused to allow petitioners, respondents or even corespondents to speak on their own behalf.

Updated at 3.44pm BST 3.38pm BST "Dear Corespondent et al," starts Edward Somerville, before answering a question posed earlier.