(n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
(n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
(n.) The seat where judges sit in court.
(n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
(n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
(n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
(v. t.) To furnish with benches.
(v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.
(v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Welbeck, meanwhile, was not even able to feature on the substitutes' bench.
(2) The prediction equations significantly (t = 6.59, p less than 0.01) underestimated bench press performance in the more extensively weight trained subjects.
(3) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(4) Bench testing of forces produced at the probe tip was performed with an electronic balance.
(5) But she had particular backing from those on the Labour benches who want to stop May’s hardline Brexit plan to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice.
(6) Sterling was left out of the team for that match, coming off the bench to win the free-kick from which Wayne Rooney scored the only goal, which led to accusations he had said he did not want to play.
(7) The other method allowed the castings to bench cool to room temperature.
(8) Sometimes I play with two, one on the bench, sometimes someone will be injured or suspended.
(9) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(11) Josh King restored the lead moments after coming off the substitutes’ bench, but the Hornets levelled for a second time through Isaac Success three minutes later.
(12) The XI the Scot sent out featured no Robin van Persie, who was on the bench, while Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, Chris Smalling, Danny Welbeck and Marouane Fellaini did not make the squad due to injuries.
(13) Oxygenator exhaust capnographic measurements systematically underestimated PaCO2 measured by a bench blood gas analyzer.
(14) The technical difficulties can be avoided by en bloc removal, perfusion in situ with Collins solution, and bench surgery during graft preparation.
(15) Bench testing for accuracy of volume loss was checked by ventilating the device into another calibrated spirometer and achieving equal volumes.
(16) Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor, has had her responsibilities at the club scaled back after being on the receiving end of a rant from José Mourinho on Saturday, and she is not expected to continue being on the bench during games.
(17) None of us is locked into a harness on a bench, being made unwillingly acquainted with tobacco products.
(18) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
(19) If you are on holiday in the local area please come along and have a look, buy a garden bench or a potted plant.
(20) Interinstrument variation during treadmill experiments while subjects wore two accelerometers at the same time was on average 22% and was not improved after adjustment for differences found in the bench test.
Judiciary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.
(n.) That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(3) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
(4) In a democracy, she said, it was important that rights and responsibilities be decided by a judiciary more reflective of society as a whole "and not just a very small section of it".
(5) Maryann Hunter, a deputy director with responsibility for regulation of foreign banking organisations, declined to tell a Senate judiciary committee hearing if, or when, the Fed received the data leak.
(6) Testifying before the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia, said the court's ruling had left him devastated.
(7) This included guaranteeing: independence of the judiciary, the rule of law and our rights and freedoms and, in particular, that we would move steadily towards genuine universal suffrage.
(8) And secretary of state Hillary Clinton, visiting Hungary in 2011, pleaded for “a real commitment to the independence of the judiciary, a free press, and governmental transparency”.
(9) Iran's English language TV channel, Press TV, reported on Monday that according to Iran's East Azerbaijan Prosecutor Malek Ajdar Sharifi "the behaviour of the Germans showed they entered Iran as spies and tried to create negative atmosphere against Iran and the East Azerbaijan judiciary."
(10) Judge Aydin Akay was detained in September as part of a crackdown on the judiciary following the coup attempt.
(11) Public interest was eventually served, but the judiciary does not seem willing to learn the lessons of Trafigura.
(12) But somebody has to preside over the most demanding criminal appeals and lead the judiciary of England and Wales.
(13) The problem with this argument is that all publicly available evidence presented to Congress, the judiciary, or independent executive branch review suggests that the effect of bulk collection has been marginal .
(14) Accustomed to a world in which violence is pervasive, life is cheap and the public authorities – police and judiciary – cannot be relied upon to keep the peace or administer justice, many of Brazil's young men go armed and ready to use their weapons.
(15) The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd , is head of the judiciary.
(16) Lord Judge has seniority in the judiciary of England and Wales, serving as lord chief justice in that realm, as the article noted.
(17) Ja'fari-Dowlatabadi told a press conference on Sunday that Shourd would be freed on health grounds but criticised the initial announcement of her release, saying it had been made while the judiciary was still working on the case.
(18) Others are unhappy about the president's clampdowns on the private media and the weakening of the judiciary.
(19) It’s of the utmost importance that the judiciary should not be immune from robust criticism,” he said.
(20) Iran's semi-official Isna news agency quoted a judiciary official in Isfahan, saying that an explosion had been heard.