(n.) The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
(n.) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said that some voters would see Monday's acquittal as a positive step in the reforms recently enacted by the prime minister, Najib Razak.
(2) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
(3) Noye claimed the way the press had reported his acquittal in the Fordham case was "absolutely scandalous".
(4) Speaking outside Southwark crown court minutes after the acquittal by the eight-man, four-woman jury, Redknapp said he and his family had been through a "nightmare" as they waited for justice.
(5) After winning stage three, he maintains his advantage until the end of the race, despite the UCI revealing it would challenge the Spaniard's domestic acquittal on doping charges.
(6) Today's verdict ‑ the striking-off of Wakefield and Prof John Walker-Smith, who was in charge of the department of paediatric gastroenterology at the Royal Free hospital in London, where the research took place and the acquittal of the-then junior consultant Simon Murch, who had doubts about the project ‑ was about ethics and honesty, not science.
(7) If the law was changed, Macpherson predicted, fresh trials after acquittal would be exceptional and appropriate safeguards would be essential.
(8) Announcing that the acquittal on 1 November was erroneous, the Athens public prosecutor's office said the journalist should be retried by a higher misdemeanour court on the same charges.
(9) The appeal judges concluded that there was "sufficient reliable and substantial new evidence to justify the quashing of the acquittal and to order a new trial".
(10) "These writers keep getting tried, and we keep getting acquittals."
(11) Many will have been surprised by the officer's acquittal yesterday after a district judge concluded that the prosecution had failed to prove that he had not acted in "lawful self-defence."
(12) Yet not one had raised similar concerns about the acquittal of Nicholas Jacobs on a charge of murdering PC Keith Blakelock at Broadwater Farm the previous day ( Report , 10 April).
(13) The verdict is above all a triumph of state power, exemplified by the acquittal of the interior ministry's main commanders who oversaw police actions during the revolution.
(14) It is not uncommon for illiberal – in this case, deeply authoritarian – regimes to use a security threat (whether real, imagined, or self-created) as a pretext for singling out alleged ‘traitors’ and cracking down on civil society and individual critics.” Lawyer Khalid Bagirov, who is acting on behalf of all four activists, said the arrests are politically motivated, and added that their acquittal is nigh on “impossible”.
(15) The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada will not be able to return to Britain despite his surprise acquittal by the Jordanian state security court on terrorism conspiracy charges.
(16) He said the "adversarial nature of our criminal trial system in this country is designed to test the evidence given by witnesses; be they for the prosecution or defence so as to ensure safe conviction and acquittal of the innocent".
(17) "We were innocent when the Kremlin locked us up: it was not amnesty that we expected from Putin; we demand acquittal," she told the Guardian.
(18) If white Americans need black villains to feel superior in their decline as 2015 closes – and as the leading demagogue Republican candidate for president can confirm, they do – then innocent victims like Tamir will continue to be killed, and those who do so will be rewarded with acquittal, fame or even promotion .
(19) Rees, a convicted criminal, attacked the police's conduct after his acquittal claiming they had ignored 40 other suspects and added: "One disgraceful aspect is that senior police purported to take seriously people with mental health problems and career criminals merely trying to benefit themselves."
(20) They conclude that dismissal based on incompetence to stand trial became a substitute for acquittal based on the insanity plea under mens rea.
Deliverance
Definition:
(n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
(n.) Act of bringing forth children.
(n.) Act of speaking; utterance.
(n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
(n.) Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.
(n.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
(2) The treatments were equally deliverable, with 76% of patients completing their allocated regimen.
(3) Surgical resection of regional lymph nodes and renal vein thrombus, if present, is recommended, since the deliverance of full radiation doses is not likely without exceeding tolerance of vital normal tissues.
(4) Compared to Heathrow we are cheaper, quicker, have a significantly lower environmental impact and we are the most deliverable solution."
(5) There are some very serious question marks about whether others will ever really happen in practice and whether they are deliverable.
(6) However, health care deliverers and users in general are expected to increase their support and consideration for the information provided by the Board, in order to fulfill the purpose for which it was established.
(7) "However, there are major political risks over this scenario, reflecting uncertainties over whether the post-2015 spending squeeze is politically deliverable, especially if the 2015 election produces a Labour-led majority or coalition government," he said.
(8) The nurse will be the healthcare change agent of the twenty-first century using the expertise developed as the deliverer to the patient while the physician will become the advisor to patients, business, and the community.
(9) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
(10) The provider leadership task must be deliverable – an averagely performing foundation trust or trust has to be able to stay in surplus and carry a reasonable level of risk.
(11) What I want is an immediate and urgent ceasefire, but we want it to be based on deliverables for the future."
(12) One-hundred nineteen control patients, exposed 789 times to noncarrier health care deliverers, were also negative.
(13) Deliverances or exorcisms can often involve physical violence.
(14) The in vitro response of P. falciparum to amodiaquine, quinine and quinidine was assessed in Tanga region where chloroquine resistance is established, to determine baseline susceptibility levels which could guide health care deliverers on the suitability of these drugs for the treatment of falciparum malaria in the areas studied.
(15) One plausible explanation for the discrepancy between fact and remembrance is that the survivors, who regarded their own deliverance as miraculous, found the chances slim that someone as helpless as a dwarf could escape death.
(16) The truth is that Nigeria is a failed state as a deliverer of safety, health and education to its people, but a very successful state for those who own and control or benefit from its increasingly dynamic economy.
(17) Other medications might be deliverable via the GI tract in the early postoperative period.
(18) As reports of possible bid for child protection contracts make clear, it hopes to be a prime deliverer of many more important, sensitive services.
(19) "Exam boards agree with us that, on the face of it, this timetable is deliverable, but of course we will take action if at any time the timetable is at risk," Stacey told Gove in a letter published on Friday (pdf).
(20) He said: “I just don’t think it makes sense to say you’re never going to have a single metre of extra concrete anywhere, in any runway anywhere in the United Kingdom...It will need to be discussed again because – how can I put it – I’ve seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.” But Clegg said he accepted the vote.