Sentence examples for powerful justice from inspiring English sources

"The mitigating evidence counsel failed to discover and present in this case is powerful," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote.

When Alito replaced O'Connor, in 2006, the Court was locked into a consistent four-four conservative-liberal split, and Kennedy became the most powerful Justice in decades.

This was a slick, almost faultless one-man blockbuster by Sean Michael Verey, doing powerful justice to a script by Philip Ridley.

In November the SPLM-N and three of the Darfur rebel groups that did not sign the agreement, including the powerful Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), announced that they had formed an alliance.

Mujuru and the powerful justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa – who in the past controlled the secret police and military – are seen as the leading contenders to replace the 90-year-old Mugabe when he steps down or dies.

Most of today's justices, like most justices of the past, Rosen argues, are not very talented writers, whatever the quality of their legal arguments: Anthony Kennedy, the most powerful justice today (thanks to his status as a swing voter) is "also the most painful writer.

Its powerful chief justice, invigorated from a power struggle with Mr. Zardari in the spring, is not expected to be gentle.

"Speech is powerful," Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority in that case.

A sense that the rich and powerful evade justice is pervasive.

Like Spitzer, he was a zealous Manhattan politician credited with youthful ambition and a powerful social justice agenda.

But analysts argue the details are less important than the fact that the dispute pits a weak, unpopular president against a powerful chief justice.