(v. t.) To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
(a.) The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.
(a.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.
Example Sentences:
(1) The applicant I had countersigned for had visited a GP surgery where she began talking to another patient who was there for a GP's signature on an application, for a fee of £20.
(2) The content of the explanation should be written and countersigned by the patient.
(3) Clearly in most cases the doctor does no more than countersign the patient's declaration of his fitness or not to work.
(4) My application was reviewed and countersigned by the HMRC chief executive.” He adds it was “HMRC’s chairman who took an interest in the work of the Enforcement and Compliance directorate.
(5) Jane Duffield-Bish Norwich • Fifteen years ago, as a police constable, I countersigned a passport application for a resident.
(6) I signed it; the cardinal camerlengo [chamberlain] countersigned it; and then, on the balcony, there was the Habemus Papam [announcement of a new pope].
(7) The seven passenger manifests, countersigned by travel agents in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria , suggest there was a period of formalised passage on the Syrian side of the border.
(8) Speakers from the Islah party, members of which countersigned the deal in Riyadh on Wednesday, were forced to flee for cover in Change Square after a group of youth activists launched a co-ordinated attack on the main stage, pelting it with stones, eggs and plastic bottles and shouting: "Our stage, our revolution, down with the opposition!"
(9) Misinterpretations were identified by staff radiologists, who checked all examinations and countersigned the reports.
Parole
Definition:
(n.) A word; an oral utterance.
(n.) Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (Mil.), promise, upon one's faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against one's captors, to return to custody, or the like.
(n.) A watchword given only to officers of guards; -- distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards.
(n.) Oral declaration. See lst Parol, 2.
(a.) See 2d Parol.
(v. t.) To set at liberty on parole; as, to parole prisoners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(2) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(3) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(4) If a prisoner is in the process of taking a programme this can hinder or even curtail their progress – many prisons don't offer certain programmes so if you are moved to a prison without a particular course you are back to square one when it comes to the crucial Parole Board assessment.
(5) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole,’ his sister said.
(6) A conman has been jailed for a minimum of 40 years and told he will never be paroled after the cold-blooded murder of his parents to collect his £230,000 inheritance .
(7) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
(8) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
(9) He apparently was paroled, but Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Alison Morgan said she could not release information on prisoners because of the ongoing investigation into Clements' death.
(10) More than 6,000 prisoners are serving IPP sentences, which has led to a big increase in the parole board's workload without an increase in resources.
(11) The latest Ministry of Justice figures show that in July there were 6,130 serving indefinite IPP sentences, of whom 2,850 were being held well beyond their "tariff point" – the minimum date after which the parole board can authorise their release.
(12) Last month a judge commuted the death sentences of three convicted killers in the state from death to life without parole on the basis of the Racial Justice Act.
(13) Hasan, 42, faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
(14) If you want to be paroled as soon as possible, you have to confess your guilt.
(15) The board of pardons and parole had received a letter on behalf of Pope Francis urging them not to allow Gissendaner’s execution, the first since the pope’s address to the US Congress last week in which he called on the United States to abolish the death penalty.
(16) Obama’s preferred pathway to adjudicating their fates is to perform quasi-parole hearings, known as Periodic Review Boards, whereby the administration comes to a consensus about whether or not they pose a continuing threat.
(17) In particular, Fitzgerald argued that to allow a politician, rather than judges, to decide how long a murderer should serve before they can apply to the parole board for release breached the guarantee of a fair trial.
(18) But the Archers themselves said nothing, a policy that they would stick to throughout a day that took the peer and novelist to his parole office in Stockwell, south London, and to the flat where he has elected to live.
(19) Russian courts have repeatedly denied early parole for Tolokonnikova or the other jailed member of the group, Maria Alyokhina .
(20) The present study compared the attitudes and feelings of law-enforcement, corrections, parole and probation personnel, and college students toward mental illness.