(n.) A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.
Example Sentences:
(1) An appeal judge also condemned the proceedings and ordered a retrial .
(2) Oliver Glasgow QC, for the prosecution, said the crown would seek a retrial with a date to be set at the Old Bailey on 6 February.
(3) But a court accepted his appeal earlier this year and ordered a retrial.
(4) The military retrial opened in the absence of Sanad, his family and his lawyers.
(5) The jury failed to reach a verdict on two other charges Coulson faced relating to alleged payments to public officials, and he now faces a retrial along with former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman .
(6) Al-Jazeera journalists celebrate welcome turn in Egyptian retrial Read more Fahmy said he just wanted the trial to be over.
(7) They and a further six al-Jazeera journalists were found guilty in June 2014, but their convictions were overturned and the latest sentences were handed down after a retrial.
(8) In Dobson's case, three appeal judges ordered a retrial in May 2011.
(9) During this year’s retrial, key elements of the prosecution’s case unraveled in Farid’s courtroom.
(10) This prompted the judge to intervene, saying this apparent manipulation of the evidence meant he had three options: to order a retrial; to allow bad character evidence against Mahmood; or to drop the case entirely.
(11) Partly in response to the Bowraville case, and following changes to the law in England, the NSW parliament in 2006 passed amendments to the Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act allowing for the retrial of an acquitted person where, in serious cases, there is “fresh and compelling” evidence that had not been “adduced” in the proceedings which saw the accused acquitted.
(12) At this point the judge intervened to say this appeared to show Mahmood had lied to manipulate the evidence and that he was considering whether to order a retrial, allow bad character evidence against Mahmood, or drop the case entirely.
(13) The Muslim Brotherhood issued an immediate statement after the verdict calling for a retrial.
(14) The reporters with the Qatari al-Jazeera English channel won a retrial that will conclude at the end of the month.
(15) In January, an appeals court recognised these flaws, rescinding the trio’s jail terms, which ranged between seven and 10 years, and sending the case to retrial .
(16) The controversy centred on Jordan's potential use of evidence obtained by torture in Abu Qatada's retrials.
(17) We believe that the case must be sent back for a retrial, at the very least”.
(18) The bloody print was also ignored at Woodfox's retrial.
(19) Mohamed Fahmy hits out at al-Jazeera over its protection of journalists Read more In December 2014 an appeals court ordered a retrial.
(20) Swaibu, 25, of Tooley Street, Bermondsey, south London, denies a single count of conspiracy and was granted unconditional bail pending a retrial.
Unfair
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of fairness or beauty.
(a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(2) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(3) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(4) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
(5) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
(6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(7) Miliband said: "Unfair pricing which hits the most vulnerable hardest is completely unacceptable.
(8) Trump variously complained that the Khans had been unfair to him, that Khizr Khan had no right to speak, and that Ghazala Khan was forbidden from speaking.
(9) Chris Leslie, the shadow Treasury minister, said the IFS analysis highlighted the "massive complexity of this unfair policy".
(10) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
(11) We think the sector rules were operating unfairly in the provider's favour, with consumers having little choice but to accept price increases or pay to exit their contract.
(12) It confirms that Fifa, through its internal bodies, is conducting a one-sided, unfair and biased investigation against Michel Platini, repeatedly violating his right to defend himself.” The Fifa appeals committee, chaired by the Bermudan Larry Mussenden, said the appeals had been rejected in full and the decision of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans Joachim-Eckert, confirmed in its entirety.
(13) "The suggestion that I deliberately misled the committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair," she wrote in a letter to Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman.
(14) It was unfair because the court would decide a case by reference to evidence produced by the government, which was not seen by the other party to the case, giving the latter no real opportunity to answer it, he told the BBC.
(15) Trump’s transition team reportedly told French diplomats they disapproved of the conference going ahead, seeing it as an attempt to put unfair pressure on Israel and give an unjustified reward to the Palestinians.
(16) The problem is the practical one of doing something about it without being unfair to the cohorts of pupils who start sitting exams when the previous trend of ever-improving grades is put into reverse.
(17) There’s been a sharp rise in the number of death sentences and executions since Sisi came to power, some of which have taken place after grossly unfair trials.
(18) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
(19) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
(20) Junior doctors contract row: an explainer Read more “This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, but the government’s refusal to work with us through genuine negotiations and their threat to impose new contracts that we believe are unsafe for patients and unfair for doctors, leaves us with few options”, said Dr Johann Malawana, chair of the JDC.