(a.) One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the request of the American Association of Jurists, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was called upon to consider violations of international law of the self-determination of peoples by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as to make proposals for change.
(2) The other signatories include John Dugard, a South African jurist and former UN special rapporteur in the occupied territories; Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European parliament; Cynthia McKinney, a former member of the US Congress; Ronnie Kasrils, a South African former cabinet minister; and the dramatist Caryl Churchill.
(3) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
(4) Buergenthal is a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the power of his testimony is magnified by a jurist's coolness and eye for detail.
(5) For example, a 1976 report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists concluded: There is abundant evidence showing the systematic use of impermissible methods of psychological and physical torture of political suspects during interrogation.
(6) They also coincided with a report by the International Commission of Jurists , which singled out the UK for complicity in torture and abusive counterterrorism laws.
(7) The public can see through this partisan political attack by the unions and the Labor party on one of Australia’s most distinguished and eminent jurists.” “Our political opponents, the Labor party, have been seeking to attack the umpire in this royal commission, namely justice Heydon himself, from day one,” he said.
(8) Having failed to get the Christian Democrat trade unionist Franco Marini appointed in the first two votes, after dissent from its left wing – and in the face of the inspired proposal of Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement to make the progressive jurist Stefano Rodotà its own candidate – the PD had a paper majority to elect Romano Prodi, the only politician its camp has produced in the past 20 years who has actually defeated Berlusconi.
(9) The eminent jurist apparently expects more leeway in terms of not reading things and not remembering things than he would be likely to afford one of his witnesses.
(10) We, the undersigned lawyers and jurists, write to express our deep concern about the scores of lawyers detained or intimidated in China .
(11) The issue then was how to discover it, and the jurists devised elaborate rules for doing so.
(12) The purpose of judging the dead was to "inflict terror on the living", explained a French jurist in 1784, and the message of the Magnitsky trial was similarly blunt: cross us and we'll nail you, dead or alive.
(13) Professor Michael Scharf of Case Western Reserve University, acting as spokesman, told The Associated Press that a draft for such a court been quietly under development for nearly two years by many of the key figures from other national and international war crimes tribunals, as well as Syrian jurists, politicians and leaders.
(14) Today a group of eminent jurists accuse governments and enterprises of being in clear and flagrant breach of their legal obligations on climate change – under human rights law, international law, environmental law, and tort law .
(15) Participation in geronotology by anthropologists, theologians, and jurists is pleaded.
(16) Schröder's concern to provide pedagogues, psychologists, and jurists with a study of the characterology of children deviating from the average or norm, which has been made from the psychiatrist's point of view, may be considered fully realized even today.
(17) Amnesty International, Justice (the British affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists), and Redress, the human rights organisation helping torture survivors obtain justice and reparation, have oined the case.
(18) However, the legislature did not take into accout that some jurists believe that loss of the capacity to procreate is a permanent affliction prohibited by article 5 of the Civil Code.
(19) Islamic jurists resolved it by concluding that such children must have an underlying “hidden” sex which was waiting to be discovered.
(20) Furthermore, despite the initiative proposed by the Ecuadorian government to create a bilateral group of jurists to facilitate a solution to the case (accepted by the British government in June 2013), it’s unfortunate that no results have been reached to date.
Purist
Definition:
(n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
(n.) One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(2) But there are two problems for Turkey's entry Düm Tek Tek: linguistic purists will be angry that the song is in English except for the title; and some more traditional members of the national juries and televoters will be offended by Turkey's crop-top aesthetic.
(3) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
(4) No: people want to see live animals!” The purists will grumble.
(5) Quite right too, purists would say: Hinkley Point is already hideously expensive.
(6) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(7) And rather than to the purists of Camra, it was to the anything-goes craft brewers of America that many turned for their inspiration: to exuberant beers with exotic ingredients (chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, mustard, even myrrh), but also to hip design, guerrilla marketing and social media savvy.
(8) What might be even less acceptable to purists are the ballpark traditions that have sprung up around Fenway recently.
(9) Early celebrating is a serious violation of baseball protocol to some purists.
(10) Eric Gordon, director of Emerson College's Engagement Lab in Boston, takes a more purist approach.
(11) The 1995 Judge Dredd movie , starring Sylvester Stallone, angered some purists because he took his helmet off.
(12) If he gets there, at 32, in two such daunting matches, acclaim will have to flow, but there will be trouble from the purists.
(13) I know lots of purist Conservatives say this is not something the Tory party should do,” he says.
(14) The purists will brook no such change, insisting Republicans must stay true to their small government, socially conservative message.
(15) I was kind of hoping they might manage a reprise of their purist-bothering act at Euro 2004, only on the biggest stage of all.
(16) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
(17) It can be demonstrated that puristic ideologies tend to be inhumane.
(18) Though such innovations are anathema to many purist climbers, some Sherpas welcome them.
(19) As a purist I would love the fighters to be able to kick the head of a downed opponent,” he says.
(20) It might be less deadly than it was, and the miles of fixed ropes appal climbing purists, who say it’s not real mountaineering, but it’s still a dangerous, acutely uncomfortable environment that could end up killing you.