(v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
(v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
(v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
(n.) Hindrance; impeachment.
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.
Remove
Definition:
(v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
(v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
(v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
(v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
(n.) The act of removing; a removal.
(n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
(n.) The state of being removed.
(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
(n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
(n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
(2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(3) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(4) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(5) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(6) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(8) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(9) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(10) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
(11) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
(12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(13) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(14) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(15) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(16) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(17) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(19) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(20) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.