Sentence examples for writs on from inspiring English sources

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.

It also did not involve the policing of government conduct in international affairs, because it only implicated the procedures private litigants had to take to serve writs on defendants residing in Hong Kong.

In accordance with electoral regulations, the Electoral Commissioner then advertised key dates for the election of the House of Assembly and half of the Legislative Council – close of rolls on 27 February 2006 at noon, nominations to be received by 2 March 2006 at noon, polling day on 18 March 2006, and the return of writs on or before 28 April 2006.

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.

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.

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.