What's the difference between court and impeachment?
Court
Definition:
(n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
(n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
(n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
(n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
(n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
(n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
(n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
(n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
(n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
(n.) The session of a judicial assembly.
(n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
(n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
(v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
(v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
(v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(3) Slager’s next court appearance is not until 21 August.
(4) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(5) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(7) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(8) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(9) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(10) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
(11) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(12) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(13) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
(14) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
(15) More likely is that the constitutional court would use its recently beefed-up powers to deal with separatists if they were to assume powers that the constitution does not allow them.
(16) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(17) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(18) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
(19) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(20) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
Impeachment
Definition:
(n.) The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached
(n.) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
(n.) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration.
(n.) A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(2) An impeachment effort would have no impact on the current proceedings "This is a case of our state's judges inserting their personal biases and political opinions into the equation," Christian told the Associated Press.
(3) China’s official Xinhua news agency wasted no time in responding to Park’s impeachment and accused her of dealing “a massive blow to [South Korea’s] relationship with Beijing” by agreeing to host the Thaad missile system.
(4) The [impeachment] process will be followed by the entire population.” To proceed, the removal proposal needs the support of at least two-thirds of the deputies, or 342 of the 513 votes in the lower house.
(5) The legislature is also due to begin impeachment hearings against a former house speaker and a former senate speaker for allegedly trying to amend the constitution, which the army suspended when it seized power.
(6) Last month, Lula’s successor president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and ejected from office less than halfway through her mandate on relatively minor charges of window-dressing state accounts ahead of the 2014 election.
(7) South Korea scandal explained: six key points on the cronyism claims engulfing the president Read more South Korea’s three biggest opposition parties claimed they had won the support of enough lawmakers from Park’s ruling Saenuri party to push ahead with impeachment.
(8) A recent petition backed by military officials sought to impeach Shwe Mann for his role in proposing amendments to the military-drafted constitution, which were anyway rejected.
(9) This followed the worrying decision to impeach the country's chief justice, through a process held to be illegal both by Sri Lanka's supreme court and by international experts.
(10) Instead, he wound up the debate by confirming that he would once again vote for impeachment.
(11) Mardom-e-Emrooz’s closure came after a number of conservative media outlets in Iran , including the daily paper Kayhan, demanded it be shut down and MPs threatened to impeach the culture minister if no action was taken.
(12) Of all the investigative work she's done, though, she is proudest of the inquiry she led into the independent counsel Ken Starr at the time of the impeachment of Bill Clinton .
(13) Questionable behavior is not the same as criminal or even impeachable conduct.
(14) We’re closer to impeachment than two or three months ago.
(15) The council previously suspended 22 junior judges who appeared in the video and investigated the conduct of high court judges to see if there was a case for their impeachment.
(16) Of course, Senate Republicans may decide this for themselves by voting Trump innocent in his impeachment trial in 2019.
(17) The House Republican leadership today called for the President's resignation and warned him that the alternative was a near-unanimous vote in the House of Representatives to be followed by an early trial in the Senate and probable conviction on the Bill of Impeachment.
(18) Park was impeached by parliament in December after accusations that she colluded with long-time friend Choi Soon-sil to pressure big businesses to donate to two foundations set up to back the president’s policy initiatives.
(19) Johnson, who was part of a campaign in parliament in 2004 to impeach Blair, told LBC: "It would be hard to mount criminal charges.
(20) South Korea’s opposition parties are working towards launching impeachment proceedings against her but they need votes from Park’s ruling party if the motion is to succeed.