(n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.
(n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.
(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva).
(n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa).
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) On the way back to Pristina later, the lawyer told me everything was fine.
(3) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(5) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(6) 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.
(7) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(8) 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.
(9) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(10) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(11) said Bengis, a Miami-based lawyer who campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton four years ago before she conceded the Democratic Party's nomination to Barack Obama.
(12) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(13) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
(14) With her expert legal aid and the help of her lawyers, I was released along with the 300 others who had been rounded up.
(15) We have the president of the tribunal, Sir Michael Burton, arguing that his work needs to be done in secret to secure the trust and co-operation of the intelligence services – but what about the trust of the British people and the confidence of the lawyers who seek to establish the rights of ordinary members of the public?
(16) Shaker Aamer , a Saudi who lived in London before travelling to Afghanistan, has given a statement to one of his lawyers in which he says British intelligence officers were present while Americans beat him and smashed his head against a wall.
(17) A lawyer advising one of the newspaper groups opposing the deal said: "All the regulator has to prove is that there is a potential for a reduction in plurality in the UK.
(18) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(19) His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian jail in 2009 after being refused medical treatment.
(20) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
Sawyer
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
(n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
(n.) The bowfin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
(2) Meanwhile, unlike kick-off's Simon McMahon, Phil Sawyer is not off to France on Thursday.
(3) Sawyer, William D. (U.S. Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.
(4) Photograph: Reuters Sawyer is believed to have contacted the virus from his sister, who died of Ebola earlier this month.
(5) Lutz points out that he's talked to Natalie Sawyer, so I think he's stepping forward.
(6) We previously demonstrated that a heterotypic complex of the two rat asialoglycoprotein receptor subunits was assembled during cell-free translation (Sawyer, J. T., and D. Doyle.
(7) The team also includes Julie Sawyer, Indyk’s senior aide, economics expert Hady Amyr, and Michael Yaffe, who oversees liaison with world powers with an interest in the region.
(8) "I think handshakes should be introduced into all forms of work," announces Phil Sawyer.
(9) "No," he says in response to Sawyer's question about whether the US should "brace" for retaliation from Assad, whose military capabilities are "insignificant" compared to those of America.
(10) Even though that involved hunting through crowded buildings in streets without door numbers, Nigerian teams managed to trace everybody who had been in contact with Sawyer and everybody who had contact with those who later developed the disease.
(11) Yvonne Roberts’s baby boomer view: ‘The perils of a moneyless old age have been brought forward’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer Miranda Sawyer says she hasn’t written a self-help manual, but it’s an often wise and reflective book that drops more famous names than currants in a fruitcake.
(12) In 2016, in the Sawyer version, she is wobbling, “carrying several large suitcases from the past, plus a few significant others who are clinging to you”.
(13) For the love of God will you be quiet, Sawyer, you'll be giving people ideas.
(14) Thanks for reminding me of Arachnophobia," writes Phil Sawyer.
(15) Eighty-three patients (47 male, 36 female) meeting the inclusion criteria of Sawyers et al.
(16) Written and directed by 31-year-old Richard Tanne, Southside with You stars Parker Sawyers as Barack and Tika Sumpter as Michelle; the executive producer is the musician and Obama fan John Legend.
(17) I am a woman, Bruce Jenner tells Diane Sawyer in ABC interview Read more Bruce Jenner’s public announcement that she identifies as a woman is likely to elicit a “mixed bag” of reactions in track and field and society as a whole, Bert Bonanno, Jenner’s coach at the 1976 Olympics, said on Saturday.
(18) But Sawyer highlights the difficulties for over-50s of finding employment after the economic crisis.
(19) The German samples were not analyzed by the Sawyer method.
(20) Authorities said they were considering applying for an experimental drug used on two Americans to treat the doctor who headed Sawyer's team and is now battling the virus herself.