(n.) One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andrew Sexton Gray was born in Limerick, Ireland, medically trained in Dublin, and was assistant to William Wilde, the distinguished oculist and aurist.
Jurist
Definition:
(a.) One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the request of the American Association of Jurists, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was called upon to consider violations of international law of the self-determination of peoples by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as to make proposals for change.
(2) The other signatories include John Dugard, a South African jurist and former UN special rapporteur in the occupied territories; Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European parliament; Cynthia McKinney, a former member of the US Congress; Ronnie Kasrils, a South African former cabinet minister; and the dramatist Caryl Churchill.
(3) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
(4) Buergenthal is a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the power of his testimony is magnified by a jurist's coolness and eye for detail.
(5) For example, a 1976 report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists concluded: There is abundant evidence showing the systematic use of impermissible methods of psychological and physical torture of political suspects during interrogation.
(6) They also coincided with a report by the International Commission of Jurists , which singled out the UK for complicity in torture and abusive counterterrorism laws.
(7) The public can see through this partisan political attack by the unions and the Labor party on one of Australia’s most distinguished and eminent jurists.” “Our political opponents, the Labor party, have been seeking to attack the umpire in this royal commission, namely justice Heydon himself, from day one,” he said.
(8) Having failed to get the Christian Democrat trade unionist Franco Marini appointed in the first two votes, after dissent from its left wing – and in the face of the inspired proposal of Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement to make the progressive jurist Stefano Rodotà its own candidate – the PD had a paper majority to elect Romano Prodi, the only politician its camp has produced in the past 20 years who has actually defeated Berlusconi.
(9) The eminent jurist apparently expects more leeway in terms of not reading things and not remembering things than he would be likely to afford one of his witnesses.
(10) We, the undersigned lawyers and jurists, write to express our deep concern about the scores of lawyers detained or intimidated in China .
(11) The issue then was how to discover it, and the jurists devised elaborate rules for doing so.
(12) The purpose of judging the dead was to "inflict terror on the living", explained a French jurist in 1784, and the message of the Magnitsky trial was similarly blunt: cross us and we'll nail you, dead or alive.
(13) Professor Michael Scharf of Case Western Reserve University, acting as spokesman, told The Associated Press that a draft for such a court been quietly under development for nearly two years by many of the key figures from other national and international war crimes tribunals, as well as Syrian jurists, politicians and leaders.
(14) Today a group of eminent jurists accuse governments and enterprises of being in clear and flagrant breach of their legal obligations on climate change – under human rights law, international law, environmental law, and tort law .
(15) Participation in geronotology by anthropologists, theologians, and jurists is pleaded.
(16) Schröder's concern to provide pedagogues, psychologists, and jurists with a study of the characterology of children deviating from the average or norm, which has been made from the psychiatrist's point of view, may be considered fully realized even today.
(17) Amnesty International, Justice (the British affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists), and Redress, the human rights organisation helping torture survivors obtain justice and reparation, have oined the case.
(18) However, the legislature did not take into accout that some jurists believe that loss of the capacity to procreate is a permanent affliction prohibited by article 5 of the Civil Code.
(19) Islamic jurists resolved it by concluding that such children must have an underlying “hidden” sex which was waiting to be discovered.
(20) Furthermore, despite the initiative proposed by the Ecuadorian government to create a bilateral group of jurists to facilitate a solution to the case (accepted by the British government in June 2013), it’s unfortunate that no results have been reached to date.