Sentence examples for summonses from inspiring English sources

The pair - one Labour and one Tory - had received court summonses, issued by their own local authority, after failing to pay a total of £4,600 council tax on time.

His inner circle is tasked with keeping crime low while rebuilding trust by deciding which summonses to back off from, while keeping violence down.

Why should we keep giving chemo and radiation when we don't need it?" A recent gun crime spike in the city, however, makes it more challenging to sell what he calls the "peace dividend" of fewer arrests and summonses (especially outside impact zones) – but Bratton says it's not the cause of the violence.

Still, he acknowledges that summonses and arrests for low-level offenses can brand young people as criminals.

In that case it used creative legal tools, including grand-jury subpoenas and "John Doe" summonses (which allowed it to go after unnamed miscreants).

See articleProminent figures involved in a pro-democracy campaign in Hong Kong complied with summonses to report to the police.

For that is the post's last residual market: the jury summonses, government forms and other nasty effluents of American officialdom.

He has refused many summonses since mid-May (as have his family, though his daughter has been arrested in France) and is now eluding a dragnet involving 50,000 police officers.

Thirty deputies have been issued with court summonses in the past year last weekendd, a deputy was given a two-year sentence for speaking out of turn.

Living in Chile, he has defied summonses from three different judges investigating allegations of corruption during his rule.

But, give or take a rotten apple, it has always seemed fundamentally honest.Yet in little more than a month, that benign view has been swept away in a slew of prosecutors' warrants and summonses.