Sentences with phrase «put on trial»

I also share a disturbing number of other characteristics with women who were put on trial for being witches.

For more than a century, armchair psychiatrists have offered up a series of diagnoses to explain the behavior of a woman who held seances in the White House, dressed in widow's clothing for years after the death of her husband, and who was put on trial and convicted of insanity upon the urgings of her own son.

I think that everyone can agree that the executives in charge of Equifax should be put on trial and sentenced to decades in prison.

If arrested in the US, anyone can be put on trial for anything unless they have diplomatic immunity.

Heather Mallick in The Toronto Star said Shepherd was put on trial «Handmaid's Tale style.»

There are myriad interpretations and exegeses of this simple story, but because this is site about law, I feel obliged to offer you a mock trial script in which the wolf is put on trial.

Victims are put on trial instead of their alleged attackers.

So Judge Keller is the highest - ranking judge ever put on trial by the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Skansen, a tiny contracting company with 30 people working in an open plan office no bigger than a court room, was dragged to the quarter deck of Southwark Crown Court and duly put on trial before a jury on a charge of failure to prevent bribery under section 7 of the Bribery Act, the first contested trial of this offence since the Act came into force in the summer of 2011.

A defendant is put on trial and the prosecution points out that the defendant was googling or asking questions that seem somewhat related to the crime, suggesting the defendant was preparing for the crime.

The justice system is put on trial and the foibles of criminal barristers scrutinised in Nina Raine's new play Consent, which opened at the Dorfman Theatre in London last week.

As Miriithi is put on trial, so too is British justice.

Criminal Law Melody Izadi When Sexism Hits the Fan: how Female Defence Counsel are Put On Trial Because of their Gender

Some bodily injury victims feel they are the ones put on trial by the insurance company for the at fault driver.

This is a 1999 film adaptation a book about a former Japenese soldier put on trial for the murder his neighbour.

These issues include cases of conviction in absence (when someone is put on trial in their absence), and compatibility with the Human Rights Act 1998.

In addition to President Bush, others Velvel wants to put on trial include Vice President Richard Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo.

Including calls to put them on trial.

So when I am put on trial for Global Warming Heresy I will just claim that my skepticism is a direct result of global warming and beyond my control.

I guess what Roddy might be expecting in having climatologists put on trial is a moment similar to when on June 9, 1954 Joseph Welch said to Senator Joe McCarthy:

The automakers responded by stating: «The so - called «climate skeptics» are not on trial in this case, and the court should resist defendants» attempt to put them on trial.

He has endorsed industrial sabotage as justified by the climate crisis we are facing and said that oil company executives should be put on trial for «high crimes against humanity and nature.»

Hansen raised eyebrows again in June 2008 when he suggested fossil fuel executives should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for their contribution to global warming in an op - ed published by The Guardian.

In each case, unspoken rules governing the placement of the signified and the signifier are put on trial, held up to scrutiny through various unexpected inversions.

In addition to his own incarceration, the terrorist's rural home was also seized, as if architecture itself were to be put on trial.

With a quarter century passed since Mapplethorpe's artistic integrity was put on trial, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last spring offered up «Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium,» offering a chance to survey the whole range of Mapplethorpe's work with a fresh eye.

The game begins with Kilo being put on trial by Colonel Loomis of the COG for disobeying orders during a post E-Day battle at Halvo Bay.

Looking at the story, the game picks up from the Mass Effect 2 «Arrival» DLC episode which ends with Shepard being put on trial.

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He is put on trial before the Charred Council because he arrived on Earth too early — before the seventh seal broke.

Ganondorf is put on trial and executed (as seen in Twilight Princess) and the events of Majora's Mask transpire.

That unless Hess was raving or foaming at the mouth, he'd be put on trial.

When Henry Ward Beecher was put on trial for adultery in 1875 his trial not only split the country, it split apart his family, causing a particularly bitter rift between his sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, an ardent suffragist.

When Henry Ward Beecher was put on trial for adultery in 1875, the question of his guilt or innocence was ferociously debated.

This nonfiction book chronicles the life of a Victorian woman who is put on trial for adultery.

In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, and six other Libyans were put on trial in absentia for the 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772.

In the late 19th century a large number of shipwrecks led to tales of atrocities committed by those who survived; many were put on trial under charges

The sect's leader, Shoko Asahara, was put on trial in 1996 but not convicted until 2004 (primarily due to his uncooperativeness - he refused to enter a plea and would not speak except for occasional incomprehensible mumblings) but he was eventually convicted in 2004, and is currently in prison awaiting execution.

The instrument was then put on trial with 141 teachers for statistical validation.

Despite greasing the skids for his pals Hitler and Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, Harlan somehow managed to beat the rap when he was put on trial after World War II for crimes against humanity.

Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self - defence and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.

When retired actress «Lizzie» (Olivia Cooke) is accused of poisoning her husband, playwright «John Cree» (Sam Reid), she's put on trial for murder, and if she is found guilty, she will hang.

Warwick Thornton Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self - defense and goes on the run as posse gathers to hunt him down.

Sweet Country / Australia, Director: Warwick Thornton (Kaytej Nation), Screenwriters: Stephen McGregor, David Tranter (Alyawarra Nation)-- Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self defense and goes on the run as posse gathers to hunt him down.

It's the pomp and circumstance of religious posturing that's put on trial in «Don Verdean,» and what matters in the end is faith in oneself and fellowship between one another.

When two suspects are captured and put on trial, she attends the proceedings.

Steven served as mayor of Pitcairn from 1999 to 2004, when he along with six other men (comprising about a quarter of the small country's male population) were put on trial for a slew of child rapes and sexual assaults.

Kirk and McCoy (who tried in vain to save Gorkon) are put on trial for the disaster, leaving the remaining crew with little time to coordinate an effort to clear their names and secure their release before whatever faction responsible commits more assassinations in response to the peace process.

Shannon, who has appeared in all of Nichols» features up to now, is set to star in the new film which is inspired by Nancy Buirski's documentary The Loving Story, and follows Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who were put on trial in 1958 in Virginia.

Director: Patrick Hughes Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim de Almeida, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Richard E. Grant Plot: When a murderous dictator (Oldman) is put on trial, Interpol need notorious hitman, Darius Kincaid (Jackson) to testify against him.