(v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Example Sentences:
(1) The panel of seven judges disbarred him for 11 years, effectively ending Garzón's career .
(2) Li Heping said he had not been notified personally but had been told he was disbarred.
(3) Who knows what further horrors a rump of British jihadis disbarred from coming home might fashion from the safety of Islamic State ?
(4) My English mother (resident in France for over 15 years and thus disbarred from voting in a referendum that may affect her much more directly than most of her compatriots on this side of the Channel) is investigating naturalisation as the only way to continue receiving the costly healthcare on which she depends, but is terrified that such a step might deprive her of her UK state pension once Brexit occurs.
(5) The fact that I will continue to do no government work while I am chair of the EHRC I think should satisfy the committee and the secretary of state that that perceived interest is something that should not disbar me from proceeding in this role.” But Harman argued that conflict of interest was as much about “perception” as anything else.
(6) Together with Donald Lam, a streetwise disbarred lawyer who becomes her partner, Bertha had incredible longevity and featured in more than two dozen books.
(7) He was acquitted of criminal charges but the Michigan supreme court disbarred him, finding "overwhelming evidence" that Jenkins "sold his office and his public trust", according to the bar records.
(8) Rights lawyers, activists and others have been disbarred, detained and jailed.
(9) It runs on the new 3GS iPhone, last year's 3G, the original 2G and the iPod Touch and has addressed many user demands, although not the provision of Flash, which Apple has its own reasons for disbarring from the iPhone: Flash provides a back door through which developers could smuggle in unauthorised apps and Apple (for good reasons and bad) is allergic to the word "unauthorised".
(10) The church has an exemption from equalities and employment legislation allowing it to disbar women from the episcopate.
(11) "This will not affect his disbarment or the guilty verdict," said Mariola Urrea, a law professor at the University of La Rioja.
(12) At least 17 rights defence lawyers did not receive the new licences they needed at the end of last month, in effect disbarring them.
(13) When these laws reach the statue book just after the new year, the home secretary, Theresa May, will be able to disbar those she “reasonably suspects” of engaging in terrorism from returning to the UK for two years unless those suspects (who can include children) agree to their subsequent lives in Britain being monitored, controlled and directed by the authorities.
(14) That rule is now expected to be challenged at a UK level by a coalition of anti-domestic violence campaigners and women's aid groups, who will press for new laws that would automatically disbar a parliamentarian who is convicted of violence against the person, regardless of the type or length of their sentence.
(15) Thousands of people rallied on Sunday in Madrid in support of a disbarred judge well known for taking on international human rights cases.
(16) Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish human rights investigator disbarred as a judge on Thursday , announced he would appeal against his sentence, and launched a fierce attack on the supreme court judges who found him guilty of illegal wiretapping.
(17) Its methods disbar it from serious consideration as a natural science and its claims to therapeutic efficacy are in tatters.
(18) It just never happened.” He said he was considering taking legal action to have Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, the lawyers who filed the motion, disbarred for “knowingly filing … a false, malicious and defamatory statement in a lawsuit”.
(19) "Public interest lawyers who took cases deemed sensitive by the government faced disbarment and the closure of their firms, and in some cases were subject to arrest and detention.
Profession
Definition:
(v.) The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
(v.) That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
(v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
(v.) The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
(v.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(3) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(4) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
(5) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(6) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(7) Dawson argued that the health profession has a history of thinking that social care can be "subsumed by medical decisions" when in reality they are two different cultures.
(8) Several of the profession's objectives directly parallel those of adult day-care--to enable individuals to function as independently as possible despite their physical and mental limitations.
(9) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
(10) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(11) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(12) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
(13) Until the dental profession defines quality to include psychological, sociologic, and economic factors and establishes measurable standards of performance, dental quality assurance cannot exist in any meaningful way.
(14) These findings highlight limitations of the data supplied and suggest that the usefulness of this enviable and unique data source could be enhanced if the medical profession took greater care in clearly stating an International Classification of Diseases diagnosis in a patient's hospital record.
(15) An adequate mechanism to implement recertification can emerge only from the profession itself, working through the American Board of Medical Specialties and specialty boards.
(16) The duration and severity of the pulmonary abscess, the method of surgical treatment, the lapse of time after the operation, the course of the restorative processes, complications and concomitant diseases, the degree or respiratory and circulatory insufficiency, the patients' age, profession, and the conditions and character of work are taken into account during examination.
(17) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(18) One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle injury from the curriculums of the health professions schools.
(19) Directing volunteer nursing expertise and services can greatly benefit the community, the nursing profession, and the nurse.
(20) The shock death of the 65-year-old designer in Miami on Thursday has brought renewed focus on the chronic lack of female representation in the profession’s upper ranks in the UK.