Sentence examples for dormant cases from inspiring English sources
'dormant cases' is a proper and commonly used phrase in written English
It is used to refer to a legal case that has been unresolved for a significant time period and is not currently being actively pursued. For example, "The justice system has hundreds of dormant cases that have been unresolved for years".
A few of the state's business leaders, displeased that the new administration is aggressively pursuing thousands of dormant cases against polluters charged with damaging natural resources, have threatened to take the department to court or leave the state.
Health care workers in Baltimore discovered that those who tested positive for TB, as well as 37 others with dormant cases, were carrying the same strain, said Dr. Peter McElroy, an epidemiologist at the disease control center, in Atlanta.
Arlene Cardinez, a nurse specialist charged with assessing new arrivals' needs, said she faced a huge backlog of cases she was unlikely ever to clear without more staff - no trivial matter, given that last month she came across eight dormant cases of tuberculosis.
But now, as the medical examiner's office conducts a systematic review of its old cases, the office is not only reopening dormant case files; it is also opening old graves.
The decision to try Ghailani in New York revives a long dormant case, charging Bin Laden and the top al-Qaida leadership with plotting the embassy attacks that killed more than 200 people and injured thousands, including many who were blinded by shards of flying glass.
In 1962, she was given steroids which activated a dormant case of bone marrow tuberculosis.
They said that New York was one of only five states with a deadline of five years or less, that DNA technology had made it possible to positively identify suspects in long-dormant cases, and that the limit provided little incentive for the authorities to devote resources to old rape cases.
He is a police volunteer, part of an experiment by departments across the country that enlists trained amateurs to perform a broad — and occasionally dangerous — array of investigative duties like collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses, searching for missing persons and looking into long-dormant cases.
State authorities in Washington seemed jubilant that they had solved a long-dormant case and brought a measure of relief to Miss Sumstad's relatives.
Reopening an all-but-dormant case that has been a lightning rod for Asian-Americans, a judge in upstate New York has agreed to hear fresh evidence in the case of an illegal Chinese immigrant who was convicted of killing a fellow inmate more than 15 years ago.
The dormant legal case surrounding Roman Polanski has started up again.
