(n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
(n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
(n.) A magistrate of a borough.
(n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(3) It’s not everyone’s idea of death, and I don’t know if I could do it either, but for Martin he was quite determined, obviously very determined right to the end.” Burgess visited his friend at her house the weekend before his death and did not tell her of any plans to end his life.
(4) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
(5) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
(6) Janet Burgess is Islington council 's executive member for health and wellbeing.
(7) The year before West annointed a Gregory XVII, another one had appeared in Anthony Burgess ’s Earthly Powers (1980).
(8) Simon Burgess, a specialist PPI broker who claims to undercut bank rates by 50%, says: "It is easy to hide profits through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
(9) First, when he travelled to the Ashbourne set of Robin Hood to meet Russell Crowe and sign for the South Sydney Rabbitohs ; then when he was followed to Australia by his elder brother, Luke, and the twins, Tom and George, the quartet making history when they teamed up for Souths against Wests Tigers in August ; and this week when Sam, Tom and George were included in England's squad for the World Cup to leave Julie, the Burgess mother, feeling devastated for Luke.
(10) Less well known is that Burgess separately saw Redgrave.
(11) A labour economist, interested in behavioural change as well as poverty and fairness issues – unequal access to good schools, for example – Burgess doesn’t strike me as a Tory, judging by his CV.
(12) Burgess fled to Moscow with Donald Maclean in 1951 after being tipped off by Kim Philby, the "Third Man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
(13) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
(14) The FWC has yet to release its official finding, but shark expert George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville said he had spoken to one of the commission's scientists on Friday afternoon, who told him "eye in hand" that he was sure that it came from a impressively-sized swordfish.
(15) The documents, released at the National Archives , include a letter Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge spy ring, wrote to his mother shortly after meeting Redgrave, whom he described as his old friend, in Moscow.
(16) The gene for RNA polymerase subunit alpha is a co-transcribed with several ribosomal protein genes (Jaskunas, S.R., Burgess, R.R., and Nomura, M. (1975) Proc.
(17) But Scotland are the only squad with two pairs of brothers: the Hull KR forwards Jonathan and Adam Walker; and the Hendersons, Ian and Andrew, whose story is almost as appealing as that of the Burgess boys.
(18) Photograph: National Archives MI5 began to take close interest in her in 1951, at a time when the agency was desperate to prove that Philby had warned Burgess and Maclean that they had fallen under suspicion, enabling them to escape to Moscow.
(19) Those options should include the choice to end their life at the time and place of their choosing if they are suffering a terminal illness.” Burgess’s friend said she was choosing to speak to Guardian Australia in the hope that her friend’s legacy might help push along the “dying with dignity” campaign, which polls consistently highly in Australia.
(20) Previous studies (Lukas, T. J., Burgess, W. H., Prendergast, F. G., Lau, W., and Watterson, D. M. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 1458-1464) indicated the importance of positive charge clusters in the calmodulin-binding protein, myosin light chain kinase.
Magistrate
Definition:
(n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(2) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(3) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
(4) At 12, Focus E15 were served with a notice to appear in Bow magistrates court at 2pm.
(5) Minor injuries, which are likely to receive short sentences, are generally more suitable for magistrates court trial,” the report said.
(6) He appeared at Ipswich magistrates court on Monday and was remanded in custody.
(7) Anderson Fernandes, 22, appeared before magistrates in Manchester charged with burglary after he took two scoops of coffee ice-cream and a cone from Patisserie Valerie in the city centre.
(8) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.
(9) Bob Hutchinson, who was deputy bench chairman of the Fylde Coast magistrates, has resigned after 11 years.
(10) He was found guilty of assault by beating and causing criminal damage on 13 July at Brighton magistrates court.
(11) This drew the attention of the district magistrate who ordered an inquiry into the cases identified, and for local employers to provide a ration shop, a primary health centre and clean water supply for workers.
(12) The magistrate delayed Pistorius's bail hearing until next Tuesday and Wednesday, and ruled that the 26-year-old would be held at a Pretoria police station until then.
(13) Paris police launch inquiry after Chelsea fans seen abusing black man on film Read more Handing down the orders at Stratford magistrates court on Wednesday, he said it was a racist incident that tarnished English football.
(14) Magistrates are taking note of all the Geneva-based lawyers and other agents named in media coverage of the leak.
(15) Non-payment of the licence fee accounts for around 10% of all criminal prosecutions in magistrates courts.
(16) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
(17) In every pancreatic islet an afferent arterial vessel is described, two types of its branching are determined: magistral and scattered.
(18) Dressed in a dark suit and dark tie, Pistorius, 26, appeared composed as he entered Pretoria magistrates court and faced a wall of cameras.
(19) Alexis Bailey, 31, who works at Stockwell primary school in Stockwell Road, south London, was arrested in Richer Sounds, Croydon, just after midnight on Monday, Highbury Corner magistrates in north London heard.
(20) Lisa Jones, prosecuting, told Swansea magistrates at an earlier hearing: "Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch and was believed to have died.