Sentence examples for courts rough from inspiring English sources

In "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantánamo Bay," Mr. Bravin sets out to chronicle what he portrays as "the legal equivalent of a war of choice," the from-scratch alternative justice system President George W. Bush created by fiat in November 2001 to deal with captured Qaeda suspects.

As Jess Bravin, the Wall Street Journal's Supreme Court correspondent, reports in "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantánamo Bay," Ashcroft expected the prosecution of people involved in 9/11 to be handled criminally, by his department, as had been done, successfully, with earlier terrorism cases.

Truth to tell, I found the drama (a co-production of The Theatre@Boston Court) rough going as one test followed another followed another.

"The hard courts are rough on the body," she said.

The singer, actor and model Tyrese courts a rougher image: he is best known for his role in the film "Baby Boy," with Snoop Dogg.

Just this past week, Ellie Goulding called out Hackney council via Twitter for a new public space protection order (PSPO) that could see homeless people fined and taken to court for rough sleeping.

"There are more hard courts now that have rough surface because of the cushion on the top of the surface which gives our knees and our joints a little bit less stress.

"Maybe did they paint the court a bit too rough?" The United States Tennis Association, which hosts the Open, acknowledged that court surfaces were playing a bit differently this year.

During a drunken revel characteristic of the rough Macedonian court, an Athenian woman named Thais, the mistress of one of the high officers present, made a startling suggestion.

By unwritten rule, the seven-member court has maintained a rough political balance, with no more than four members of the same party as the current governor.

In addition, a landmark court decision that required rough parity in spending among districts had the effect of lowering the overall average, not increasing it, and education spending as a share of the state's personal income shrank dramatically.