Sentence examples for writ on from inspiring English sources

Mr Desmond, one of the wealthiest men in Ireland, first served a writ on Mr Morrison two years ago, after the hedge fund manager was charged with assaulting a cleaner at the Sandy Lane hotel in Barbados.

Centurion Ministries filed a writ on Mr. Spencer's behalf in 2004.

Indeed, he and his section editor had worried that I might serve a writ on him.

Google, intriguingly, only has 1 writ on its doorstep, from Oracle - but that pertains to Android.

Gregory Corso's Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem is more personal still.

THE work of a stage actor, however great, is writ on water.

It's an elusive dynamic, but it gives Mendieta's best images of death and transfiguration the heartbreaking writ-on-water sting of fine poems.

Her best images, like one in which her nude body seems to be growing flowers, are of death and transfiguration, and they have the heartbreaking writ-on-water sting of fine poems.

Both Eliot Spitzer, New York's crusading attorney-general, and the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC), America's chief securities-regulator, have launched probes into the industry, and the states are starting to slap writs on fund managers suspected of wrongdoing.

He attacked the law firm for "showering defamation writs" on consumer groups.

He also issued writs on his own authority, the so-called writs de cursu.