Sentence examples for general courts from inspiring English sources

In general, courts defer to the administration when it cites the U.S. national interest.

General courts deal with criminal, civil, and family matters; commercial courts deal with civil law disputes between businesses.

Landing in the SHU can be extremely arbitrary, and it's not a process that extends out to the general courts.

Following the transition to democracy in the 1970s, the official name of the legislature was changed to Cortes Generales ("General Courts").

In general, courts have held, a decision on benefit claims may be overturned only if the patient shows that the decision was unreasonable or arbitrary and capricious.

Poland has a Supreme Court and other special judicial bodies (including the High Administrative Court, military courts, and industrial tribunals) as well as general courts, comprising appellate, provincial, and district courts.

"In general, court decisions are good at generating debate and producing backlash," he told me.

The two men will be tried in general courts-martial, which can impose more severe sentences than are available in the special court-martial Specialist Sivits will face.

"This would include the common procedures used before general courts-martial permitting military judges to hear evidence and decide factual and legal matters concerning the court's own jurisdiction over the accused appearing before it," the appeals judges wrote.

More trials are on the way: three of the principal figures in the scandal, Sgt. Javal S. Davis, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick II and Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., were arraigned Wednesday on charges stemming from their suspected abuse of Iraqi prisoners and face general courts-martial.

St. § 2308a), to empower 'the commanding officer of any district or of any force or body of troops' to appoint general courts-martial, and by the exertion of that power by the President manifested by General Orders, No. 56, conferring upon the commanding officer at Camp Sevier the authority to call a general court-martial.