Sentence examples for the verdict represented from inspiring English sources

The verdict represented a finely balanced muddle.

The verdict represented the first time Mr. Hynes' office has won a conviction of a prominent member of the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg for child sexual abuse.

Irrespective of the confusion, the verdict represented excellent news for England and Rooney, although Bevington was unable to give the reasoning for Uefa's decision.

With thousands of shooting victims around the state who might have filed similar suits, the verdict represented a serious financial threat to the entire gun industry.

They cheered the judge, Jazmín Barrios, chanting her name and shouting: "Yes it was genocide!" To many of the Ixil Mayan people who told the court of barbarous massacres and rapes by soldiers during General Ríos Montt's 1982-83 dictheorship, the verdict represented an unprecedented triumph against impunity.The jubilation spread abroad.

On the contrary, for many black Americans, the verdict represented vindication from a justice system that had for so long vehemently judiciously mistreated, violated, railroaded and incarcerated so many black people (especially young black men) who in a number of cases were unjustly prosecuted without probable cause.

The verdict represents a belated and significant victory for Mr. Hynes's office, which had failed to gain a conviction against Mr. Harris in a previous case.

Two years after the inquest began, the verdict represents a vindication for the bereaved families who have fought for 27 years against police claims that misbehaving supporters caused the disaster, as well as against the 1991 verdict of accidental death.

"Notwithstanding the insufficient years of the sentence, the verdict represents a milestone for the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), having achieved the arrest of all 161 indicted persons".

The verdict represents a significant development for the grassroots organisation Joint Enterprise Not Guilty By Association (Jengba), which led the campaign to overturn convictions and secured the support of the House of Commons justice select committee, the playwright Jimmy McGovern and senior lawyers.

The verdict represents at least a symbolic victory for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that has coordinated the music labels' expensive legal campaign, which has recently suffered some highly publicized setbacks.