(n.) The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.
(n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation.
(n.) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.
(n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
(n.) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state.
Example Sentences:
(1) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.
(2) Then they become increasingly unable to afford the probation fees that are piled on by private companies paid to oversee them, including fees for everything from basic supervision to drug tests.
(3) Characteristics found to be significantly associated with program outcome included: race; probation; drug abuse; program intervention; home visits; and runaway behavior.
(4) The triage car is a partnership between Leicestershire police, Leicestershire Partnership NHS trust and Leicester probation service.
(5) He said the “bleak alternative” would have been to go through numerous probate courts while distant relatives of Gurlitt made their claims on the collection.
(6) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
(7) The shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, said the three letters were evidence that those who really know and understand the probation services were warning the government that their plans were not only half-baked but were being rushed through at breakneck speed.
(8) Second, the probation officer who had prepared my pre-sentence investigation report – the official version of a defendant’s story – prevented me from participating in the storytelling and then lied to the court, claiming I had refused to contribute.
(9) The cuts affect a wide spectrum of projects: youth offending teams will shrink, probation staff numbers will dwindle, refugee advice centres will halve in size, Sure Start services will disappear, domestic violence centres will have to restrict the number of people they can help, HIV-prevention schemes will end, lollipop wardens will no longer be funded, help for women with postnatal depression will vanish, a work scheme for people who are registered blind will be wound down, day centres for street drinkers will close their doors, theatres will get less money, debt advice services will have fewer people available to help, fire stations will shut.
(10) The Ministry of Justice announced that Serco , in partnership with London Probation Trust, had won the four-year contract worth £37m, under which 15,000 offenders carry out 1.3m hours of unpaid work.
(11) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(12) Good folks and bad folks Sentinel spokeswoman Ann Marie Dryden said that the company is committed to helping the offenders it supervises fulfill the terms of their probation and leave the criminal justice system.
(13) The new code of conduct says external agencies must find "opportunities to reduce costs and waste" during their contracts, publish more information about results achieved, and accept that payment will be "in line with results" – a reform being introduced across public services from probation to drug rehabilitation, and in effect teachers' pay.
(14) Under a partnership that dates back at least a decade, the Greater Manchester West NHS trust posts two community psychiatric nurses (CPNs), plus a support worker, at the probation service-run hostel.
(15) The probative value of a match is often calculated by multiplying together the estimated frequencies with which each particular VNTR pattern occurs in a reference database.
(16) The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is expected to be released from federal custody on 20 July but will be on probation for three years.
(17) The solution of the problem shown there should be extended: Not only the first driver's licence should only be given on probation but also a renewed one.
(18) But without structural reform to privatized probation, courts will continue to throw low-income, nonviolent offenders in jail – because those who are poor and commit misdemeanors simply can’t afford the high costs of going free.
(19) Napo, the probation union, argues that the £350m cost of imprisoning them would be better spent on intensive community orders.
(20) Grayling made clear that he was making a virtue out of the inability of two of the biggest outsourcing companies in criminal justice to bid for £450m of contracts covering the probation service in England and Wales, which are to be put up for competition later this year.
Probationer
Definition:
(n.) One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.
(n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples of Cook County (Chicago) probationers were educated about either HIV or heart disease in small group and in one-on-one sessions.
(2) Lack of concentration and dizziness were reported by the probationer.
(3) Laser acupuncture was administered to 39 probationers using a helium-neon laser under double-blind conditions.
(4) The present findings result from a check of probationers representative for approx.
(5) Sixty-three probationers were interviewed and classified by moral development, I-level, and by ratings on relevant personality dimensions.
(6) Saliva of probationers with partial dentures was analyzed for their nickel contents.
(7) The results are presented from the analysis of 10,000 urine specimens from Los Angeles County probationers in early 1976 for the following drugs: amphetamine, methamphetamine, allylbarbital, amobarbital, butabarbital, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, secobarbital, morphine, codeine, methadone, primary metabolite of methadone, cocaine, benzoylecgonine, propoxyphene, norpropoxyphene, methaqualone, and phencyclidine.
(8) Forty probationers were needled with stainless steel needles in the point Hegu (L.I.4) on both sides under single-blind conditions.
(9) By 80% of probationers are the lectures one form of continued professional training.
(10) This study explored the relationship among love deprivation, Performance greater than Verbal discrepancy, and violent crime in a sample of juvenile probationers.
(11) Pain threshold was measured in terms of the time (in msec) that the probationers needed to perceive the cutaneous heat stimulus of 43 degrees C. The painful stimulus was generated by a computer-controlled standardized procedure.
(12) Two examination groups were formed: in group 1 60 patients with a arthroscopically secured lesion of the anterior cruciate ligament were registered and set against 300 probationers with "empty" anamnesis of the knee-joint of group 2.
(13) Five dental probationers each of the clinical courses for prosthodontics manufactured maxillary cast partial dentures from 7 nickel-bearing alloys according to given guidelines.
(14) This study examines the relationships between P-V discrepancy scores, love deprivation, and juvenile delinquency among a sample of juvenile probationers.
(15) This investigation of offenders' knowledge about court mandated mental health evaluations indicated the 30 adult probationers had significant knowledge deficits.
(16) The Institute of Hygiene at Rostock initiated studies in 1980 on schoolchildren (1st to 4th form) in air-hygienically differently affected areas of the former GDR, as well as studies on probationers of the same age in non-polluted areas.
(17) In this respect dreams are suitable for diagnosing and anticipating the actions of the probationers for whom the social rehabilitation worker has to care.
(18) And when probationers like Hayes fail to pay their fines and company fees, the companies can, and do, push law enforcement to arrest them.
(19) On account of the increasing exchange of staff and the increasing number of probationers and students from tropical countries also in our country the physician working in the field of urology and radiology will more frequently be confronted with the typical forms of this parasitosis.
(20) He welcomes and, considering it more deeply, supports the demand that with investigations through experts and with the corresponding valuation through jurists prejudices are to be avoided and that defendants and probationers are to be fully informed.