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Example sentences for: magistrate

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As a long-time magistrate (English— now retired), I understood the legal definition of theft was something akin to to take possession permanently and illegally.
In the French and Italian press, many column inches were devoted to Robert De Niro's interrogation as a witness by a Paris magistrate in connection with an international call-girl scandal, and in the British press much space was given to Mohammed Al Fayed's interview with the tabloid Daily Mirror saying he believed that the deaths of his son Dodi and his friend Princess Diana had been the result of a "conspiracy."
If he refuses his permission for them to do so, they will get a W (warrant) from a magistrate or, in some parts, a Panel of experts bench of lay justices.
Some of the material is international underworld slang: hoist `steal,' beak Brit . `magistrate or judge,' chiseller swindler,' dip `pickpocket,' the rap the punishment, blame, etc.', screw Brit . `prison guard.
That's a mystifying charge: Biswas' paranoias, the magistrate's coming apart in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians , the antihero's inability to connect with the world around him in his Life & Times of Michael K , are all directly traceable to the traumas of political change and the individual's need to find stability within it.