Sentence examples for writ being from inspiring English sources

Electors must also have resided in the territory for at least 12 months to the day of the writ being dropped.

The colonel's territorial writ is shrinking.

The writ was peculiar, being directed solely at Bower.

But Whitehall's writ is so easily disrupted by nature.

But it is also evident that Mr Karzai's writ is circumscribed.

The central government's writ is no longer as powerful as it once was.

Moore's writ is a surprise to those involved with the show.

The writ is expected to be moved when the Commons resumes next week.

Lincoln's willingness to suspend the writ was matched, if not outdone, by the zeal of Seward.

No authoritarian state can survive a sustained decline in its authority and the government's writ is shrinking visibly.

(At first, the writ was chiefly used by the king, to establish his jurisdiction, rather than by prisoners).