(a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission.
(a.) The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
(a.) Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(3) But she had particular backing from those on the Labour benches who want to stop May’s hardline Brexit plan to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice.
(4) This proportion varied between the jurisdictions: from 43 per cent in Tepatitlan to 70 per cent in Ameca.
(5) In September the court was asked to issue one for the arrest of Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, which gives courts in England and Wales universal jurisdiction in war crimes cases.
(6) An attempt by the UK to challenge the court's jurisdiction was defeated.
(7) The Gambian government has not officially confirmed reports but a statement issued late on Friday said: "All persons on death row have been tried by the Gambian courts of competent jurisdiction and thereof convicted and sentenced to death in accordance with the law.
(8) Jurisdiction in the Supreme Court though, has shown the way of going on.
(9) We note the ongoing work under the UN General Assembly of an Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.
(10) The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent – contrary to international norms, and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorised use of computing and networked systems,” they conclude.
(11) Along with the organization of control and supervision while conducting sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic measures at the territories within the jurisdiction of SES, the role and participation of sanitary and epidemiological institutions in the control of health status in view of harmful effect of environmental factors and prevention of diseases among population are demonstrated.
(12) Because he was outside British jurisdiction at night, this allowed him to extend the number of days he could stay in the UK without paying tax.
(13) In jurisdictions that sometimes award compensation, the reasons for acceptance or rejection of a claim vary from case to case and are not necessarily based on our present knowledge of the disease.
(14) In Iceland, the first jurisdiction to pass legislation to put tobacco out of sight in 2001, the number of young smokers fell significantly, and laws have now been successfully implemented in nearly all Canadian provinces and Ireland too.
(15) All deaths coming under its jurisdiction will be reported in a timely manner and, when required, authorization for autopsy will be granted from the AFME.
(16) The US took jurisdiction after the second world war and turned them over to Japan in 1972.
(17) In question time on Tuesday, Pyne said officials were still finalising the details of the in-principle agreements with the three jurisdictions to benefit from the restoration of the $1.2bn, but the government was treating the states as “adult” administrators.
(18) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
(19) This boundary was chosen because MSAFP values that predict a greater risk than this point for younger women or a lower risk for older women are likely in many jurisdictions to alter a decision about amniocentesis that would be reached without knowledge of MSAFP.
(20) Other drugs, which are legal in some jurisdictions, were classified as soft.
Prelate
Definition:
(n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
(v. i.) To act as a prelate.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of those called to hear the announcement, the Mexican prelate Monsignor Dr Oscar Sánchez, said none of the cardinals had expected it.
(2) Read more The Labour leader had previously indicated he would have to think about whether to attend the Buckingham Palace ceremony, at which new members have to kneel, kiss the monarch’s hand and swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(3) Both prelated, lyophilized tissue lenses and freshly cut lenticules have been employed with good results.
(4) The frequency of iron deficiency--prelatent, latent or manifest anemia -- can be understood from the peculiarities of iron metabolism in this early period of life.
(5) The speculation peaked in February when, soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed he had decided to step down after receiving a dossier investigating the Vatileaks scandal containing details of a network of gay prelates , some of whom were vulnerable to blackmail.
(6) Training caused an initial depletion of body iron stores (prelatent iron deficiency).
(7) The prelate can also demand to see any document he cares to inspect.
(8) On 15 June, the pope appointed Monsignor Battista Ricca, an Italian cleric and former Vatican diplomat, to be "prelate" of the bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR).
(9) Since information pertinent to the effect of prelatent or latent iron deficiency on tissue iron is scare, the present study was aimed at producing this stage of iron deficiency in rats by phlebotomy and to determine whether the mitochondrial iron-containing enzymes, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) were affected.
(10) I’m labeled as ultra-conservative because I’ve been outspoken on issues that are politically unpopular and on the conservative side of the political spectrum,” said Cordileone, a balding man with water-colored blue eyes who serves as prelate to the approximately 500,000 Catholics in the San Francisco area, and was a key force behind the state’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage that was ultimately overturned by courts.
(11) Nicola Gratteri, who has battled Calabria's shadowy 'Ndrangheta mafia , said on Wednesday that Francis's attempt to bring transparency to the Vatican was making the white collar mobsters who do business with corrupt prelates "nervous and agitated".
(12) He joked about Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a prelate alleged to have tried to fly €20m in cash into Italy illegally, saying he "didn't go to jail because he resembled a saint".
(13) Six women and two men had ferritin levels below 28 ng X ml-1, which suggests prelatent iron deficiency.
(14) One month after two Orthodox Christian bishops were kidnapped by gunmen in Syria , officials say they still have no idea what has happened to the missing prelates.
(15) And one of the first actions Pope Francis took was to visit perhaps the most high-profile corrupt prelate on the planet, Cardinal Bernard Law, who remains a powerful church official despite having been drummed out of Boston for hiding and enabling crimes by hundreds of child molesting clerics," Dorris said in a statement.
(16) They also have to swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(17) The null hypotheses were that there are no differences in the manifestations of sexual and aggressive drives during the prelatency and latency as well as the latency and postlatency stage groups.
(18) • Pope Shenouda III (Nazir Gayed), prelate, born 3 August 1923; died 17 March 2012
(19) The increased diagnostic 59Fe2+ absorption is a reliable and sensitive indicator of at least depleted iron stores or prelatent iron deficiency as caused by iron malnutrition or maldigestion, increased iron requirement in pregnancy, infancy, urogenital or gastrointestinal blood loss.
(20) New members are also meant to swear to defend the monarch against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.