(n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
(n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
(n.) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
(n.) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Example Sentences:
(1) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
(2) Most of the main protest zone at Admiralty remains, although a small patch was cleared last week and protesters still hold a third site at Causeway Bay.
(3) Two of the pro-democracy leaders Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central, and 17-year-old student activist Joshua Wong urged their supporters as the clashes broke out to leave Mongkok for their own safety and concentrate on the protests around the government complex in Admiralty.
(4) It is rare for Hong Kong.” Police had already said they would support the enforcement of a court order for the removal of protestors from three sections of the Admiralty site, but made it evident that they planned to clear the whole area.
(5) I never thought I would see anything like this in Hong Kong ,” a resident marvelled as we rounded the corner of the flyover and saw for the first time just how many people had flowed into the roads around the government offices at Admiralty.
(6) However, as they returned to the scene of last year’s occupation outside government headquarters in Admiralty on Monday, activists young and old vowed to fight on.
(7) History was made the next day, when Hong Kong’s annual gay pride parade culminated in Tamar park, adjacent to the Admiralty occupation.
(8) The demonstrators, equipped with goggles and face masks to ward off teargas and pepper spray, flooded the streets around the government complex in Admiralty – a bustling commercial area in downtown Hong Kong – leading authorities to divert bus routes and shut down a subway station.
(9) Eighteen-year-old Wong became the face of the movement following his earlier arrest at Admiralty at the very beginning of the pro-democracy protests, as some voiced unhappiness about Beijing’s restrictions on who is eligible to stand as the territory’s next chief executive in 2017.
(10) At 5.58pm on Monday – the exact time that a volley of police tear gas is credited with kicking off the occupation – activists will return to the site of the main protest camp in Admiralty to remember, to celebrate and in many cases to mourn a movement that shook Hong Kong.
(11) A few hundred slept on the tarmac at the main occupation zone at Admiralty, around government offices, but allowed workers to enter the buildings.
(12) Banks was born in Dunfermline, the only child of an admiralty officer and a former professional ice skater.
(13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
(14) The other Churchill was then a father of two, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty under Herbert Asquith's Liberal government.
(15) Speaking at a press conference at Admiralty House marking the end of the parliamentary term, the deputy prime minister said: "I don't think it helps at all, when we are looking forward at trying to work out what comes out of the discussions on the reform of the eurozone, to prioritise what we think we can kind of get out of it.
(16) He had been working for the Admiralty as a cryptographer since 1914 and, disliking rowdy young men, got special permission to work with an all-female team.
(17) On Tuesday night, thousands of people gathered at three main protest sites – near government offices in the district Admiralty and on bustling commercial streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay – to watch a live broadcast of the dialogues projected on to big screens.
(18) Last night I was in Mong Kok, but tonight I am here as I worried the police might do something in Admiralty,” said Samantha Choi, a trader who has been part of the movement since its early days.
(19) He tweeted: “Please all my friends, at this stage, do not surrender before the battle even begins – we still have a chance.” Yvonne Leung of the Hong Kong Federation of Students told local broadcaster RTHK: “Further actions include a possibility of some escalations pointed at government-related buildings or some of the government-related departments.” After almost two months demonstrators are still occupying the main protest area at Admiralty and a smaller site at Causeway Bay.
(20) It’s another second world war airfield, bigger than Momote, blasted and built by the Americans to receive and launch their bombers in the Admiralty Islands campaign.
Jurisprudence
Definition:
(a.) The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(2) The authors have searched through French and western jurisprudence about transsexualism.
(3) It points out that the supreme court itself banned executions of intellectually disabled prisoners – still known as "mentally retarded" in US jurisprudence – in 2002.
(4) Certain of the enhanced interrogation techniques apparently approved by US senior commanders in Afghanistan in the period from February 2003 through [to]June 2004, could, depending on the severity and duration of their use, amount to cruel treatment, torture or outrages upon personal dignity as defined under international jurisprudence,” the ICC prosecutor’s office said in an annual report on its activities .
(5) In two states that require physicians to pass a separate medical jurisprudence examination for licensure, all four-year medical schools offer a course on health law for medical students.
(6) Public health jurisprudence now presupposes that illness is primarily a matter of individual concern.
(7) Concerning poorly controlled epilepsies, we believe that experts will be allowed to express their opinion and a new jurisprudence will make up for the silence of the law.
(8) Development of a sound jurisprudence of predictions faces major hurdles given the trend toward unscientific predictions in the law and the enormous judicial confusion in dealing with predictions.
(9) French jurisprudence about outpatient anaesthesia is resolutely unfavorable.
(10) Abbott said he was focused on letting Indonesians know it was in their best interests “and in accordance with their best values, with the quality of mercy that has such a big a place in Indonesian jurisprudence” to stay the executions.
(11) The subjects are religion, astrology, history, jurisprudence and medicine.
(12) Some derogations could attenuate the severity of these dispositions--as jurisprudence had taken progresses of Epileptology and therapeutics into consideration.
(13) What happened next passed into the annals of international jurisprudence as the first time a former head of state had faced arrest under international human rights law, principally the Convention Against Torture that came into force in 1987.
(14) Medical ethics, medical jurisprudence, and medical economics are recognized as important components of a medical school curriculum.
(15) The supreme court, Grieve said, was not bound to apply the Strasbourg jurisprudence, but only to take account of any judgment of the European court of human rights, adding: "This court is entitled to take its own course and should do so where it has sufficient doubt about the soundness of the reasoning adopted by the European court of human rights."
(16) The obligation of the result appears to be distorted in the course of jurisprudence.
(17) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
(18) First preparation camps For the mujahid on the day he joins the Islamic State, whether as a muhajir or from the ansar: and the camp includes sharia sessions through which the mujahid studies the fiqh [jurisprudence] of the rulings, Islamic doctrine, al-wala’ and al-bara’ [loyalty and disavowal], in addition to the arts of fighting and the arts of using weapons, with screening of every mujahid in a specialty in which he excels and completing his camp according to his skill in specific weapons.
(19) "The view that sensitive issues of social policy, of this kind, should be decided by national parliaments is," Grieve maintained, "entirely consistent with the jurisprudence of the court.
(20) There are no Islamic courts, no practice of its jurisprudence, no laws from the Quran, and yet on Saturday we saw Reclaim Australia rally violently, their placards demanding the country say “No to Sharia!” Reclaim Australia rallies 'hurtful' to new migrants and refugees Read more Seeing barricades, lines of mounted officers, rivals groups brawling over the truth of the “Islamification” of Australia, is a little overblown when we consider that Muslims, as 2% of the population, possess little by way of political power, have no significant representation, and own no capacity to impose their will.