Sentence examples for local bench from inspiring English sources

Today few top-flight attorneys choose to participate in the undignified clubhouse process, and even fewer wind up making it to the local bench, slots that party leaders tend to reserve for the politically loyal or the reliably grateful.

Voters there have a rare chance to register their disgust with the hack-infested local bench and the clubhouse-driven selection process, and -- who knows -- maybe even elect some good, politically independent judges.

Still, the floor speeches were contentious at times as some Republicans seized on Ms. Kagan's work as a domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton and her lack of experience on any federal or local bench to paint her as a risky choice.

Within a few years settlers numbers increased greatly and before 1850 a local bench of magistrates and a place for holding petty sessions was established.

In fact many blasphemy prosecutions are overturned by the appeal courts, which are to some degree immune to the pressures of the mob that afflict local benches.

Now, it faces risks as another charitable gift of food aid undermines Haitian autonomy by threatening to bench local farmers' peanuts production, our cultural practices, and even our tastes.

In his book, Reynolds describes a group of London anarchists who engaged in "guerrilla benching," installing their own wooden benches on sidewalks when a local government began removing benches from public space.

The new bench of local men refused to renew the injunction, even refusing Soggot leave to appeal to the Appellate Division in South Africa.

She joins the home secretary and two junior ministers in abandoning Prime Minister Gordon Brown's front bench before local and European parliamentary elections on Thursday.

It offers all the trappings of a luxury hotel spa complex but in a more democratic setting: local grannies sharing a bench with Zurich businessmen in their Speedos.

Representative Steve Chabot, Republican of Ohio and chairman of the subcommittee, said that "rogue judges legislating from the bench" and local officials who have disregarded marriage laws in their own states had led to the need for the amendment.