"gavel" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word "gavel" to refer to a hammer-like tool that is used to call for attention in a courtroom or to signify the end of a session in a meeting. Example sentence: The judge brought down the gavel signaling the beginning of the court session.
Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) chairs the panel for the Un Certain Regard sidebar; Jane Campion wields the gavel over on the Cinéfondation wing.
Luck of the devil Getting stuffed Cross-dressing Good at killing Reprints Related items The Supreme Court's ruling: Opening a gavel of wormsDec 14th 2000AFTER 100m Americans had voted for president last November, the election was finally decided by a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Just after the new House convened and Nancy Pelosi passed the speaker's gavel to John Boehner came a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and severely injured a congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords.
JUST over a year ago, while most of his colleagues were home for the holidays, a lone senator entered the Capitol and banged the gavel twice.
During this adjournment, a lone senator would drive to the Capitol every three days to gavel in and, seconds later, gavel out.Since Republican senators had pledged to block his preferred candidates, Mr Obama laughed off these pseudo-sessions and installed his nominees something George W. Bush did not dare to do when Democrats used similar tactics against him in 2007.
He rattled through the process with military efficiency, bringing down his gavel even as another angry crowd stormed the gym where the hearing was being held.Another farce developed over the report on the project's environmental impact.
BBC Parliament, the digital channel providing "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of proceedings, has limited reach and tiny audiences.
The Supreme Court had never, before Thursday, weighed in on the scope of the recess appointments clause, but Mr Obama's lawyers assured him he was on secure ground in dismissing the gavel-in, gavel-out affairs as shams; the Senate is in recess, they told him, if it isn't doing any real business.
The channel has been airing gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives since 1979; it ventured to the floor of the Senate in 1986 and has added committee hearings, interviews and coverage of some foreign political events.
With the advent of television, national conventions in the United States became spectacles that received a great deal of attention and nearly gavel-to-gavel coverage.
In 1987 Pacifica and Bensky were acclaimed for their live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate's Iran-Contra hearings.
