Sentence examples for which magistrate from inspiring English sources

One option is a 225-year-old law called the All Writs Act, which magistrate Sheri Pym cites in her three-page order dated 16 February.

Danforth was not assigned to the special Court of Oyer and Terminer that Phips established shortly thereafter, and he was opposed to the manner in which magistrate William Stoughton conducted the witch trials, which controversially accepted spectral evidence in its proceedings.

"They even approve the lists of which magistrates are on duty and at what time".

His defence barrister asked for 21 days to pay, which magistrates laughed at, but granted.

The charge can be up to 10 times higher if someone is found guilty after pleading innocence, which magistrates say is undermining the justice system by encouraging innocent but impoverished defendants to plead guilty.

The flight and initial convictions followed many years during which magistrates in Palermo and Milan had investigated charges that he was an ambassador for Cosa Nostra to the premier's party and media empire, and vice-versa.

Defenders of Mr. Berlusconi have pointed to what they call a "Jacobin" climate in which magistrates have become a de facto opposition instead of Parliament, where the center-left opposition is weak and divided and groupings that have broken from the center-right coalition are not seen as having enough power to form a new government.

JOHN F. BURNS Italy: Bishop Cites 'Moral Unease' Over Public Figures The head of the Italian bishops conference said Monday that Italians felt a "moral unease" toward their public figures, an indirect reference to a sex scandal in which magistrates accuse Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of compensating "a significant number" of women for sex.

The head of the Italian bishops conference said Monday that Italians felt a "moral unease" toward their public figures, an indirect reference to a sex scandal in which magistrates accuse Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of compensating "a significant number" of women for sex.

Battestin reckons that the tales of his early libertinism - which other biographers have dismissed as myth - are probably true, although they need not detract from the heroic aspects of his later career; at Bow Street, for instance, Fielding lived in near-poverty because he refused to accept the bribes with which magistrates, traditionally, were expected to supplement their meagre income.

Shortly after the founding of the republic, the Century Assembly became the principle Roman assembly in which magistrates were elected, laws were passed, and trials occurred.