(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.
Penthouse
Definition:
(n.) A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.
(a.) Leaning; overhanging.
Example Sentences:
(1) While Hefner's pinups were dubbed Playmates, Guccione's centrefold models – whom he sometimes photographed himself – were named Penthouse Pets.
(2) Or Malcolm McDowell’s performance in the semi-pornographic 1979 film Caligula, produced by Penthouse supremo Bob Guccione .
(3) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
(4) Behind these slogans rises a concrete lift shaft that will soon service some of the most expensive penthouses in London.
(5) • Where to stay: Ipanema Penthouse (three-bedroom flats from $250 a night, including maid service).
(6) Although Penthouse published some quality writing by authors including Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, Guccione purposely went downmarket from Playboy with racier news stories, scandal coverage and tabloid headlines.
(7) Rob Tincknell, who runs the Battersea Power Station Development Company, set up by the Malaysian consortium, says the proposal – to fill the power station with shops, offices, luxury apartments and £30m-plus penthouses, and surround it with yet more apartment blocks, all designed by star architects Lord Foster and Frank Gehry – “was the last chance to save it”.
(8) But estate agency gossip, he said, suggested a Saudi prince was paying £7,000 a week for a penthouse on Park Lane .
(9) Last November, she joined St Edward where, as deputy project manager, she is responsible for the construction of 206 luxury flats and penthouses at the Strand development.
(10) In the penthouses, alarm clocks can be set to slowly open the skylights to the sound of soothing music, and artworks rotate to reveal TV screens.
(11) She posed naked in London's Reform Club for Penthouse magazine, and published a book of photographs under the title Rock Stars In Their Underpants, which was described by Andy Warhol as "the greatest work of art in the last decade".
(12) A penthouse one of London's landmark property developments is set to become the capital's most valuable apartment after changing hands for a reported £140m.
(13) He has a flat in Abbey Mill on his books a the moment – a three-bedroom penthouse for £265,000.
(14) Madoff was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse five years ago last month after his $20bn scam came to light.
(15) The clan of Gabon's late leader Omar Bongo and its current leader, his son Ali Bongo; the Congo-Brazzaville leader, Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his family, and President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea and his clan are accused of having assets worth €160m in France , from penthouses and villas to scores of bank accounts and luxury car fleets.
(16) Longtime resident Jeannie Saunders, whose home is a four-cube penthouse, says that Habitat will always be a “a community, where people have a feeling of friendship with neighbours, a special place to live”.
(17) His rides across Tehran carry him from penthouse to pavement, from the miserable teenage soldiers staking out a decadent party to the lonesome playboy adrift in his parents' apartment.
(18) Vitamin Water can cure cancer Rohan Oza went to Harrow School, but can now be found residing in his luxury hillside penthouse overlooking Los Angeles, thanks to the product that distills fear marketing into a single bottle of sugary water.
(19) Penthouses in the lavish Battersea Power Station redevelopment are expected to go on sale – most likely to overseas buyers – for £30m.
(20) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.