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Example sentences for: magistrate

How can you use “magistrate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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."
On the cause of the princess's death in a car crash in Paris, Le Monde rejected all conspiracy theories and said the French investigating magistrate has already concluded it was fundamentally a banal road accident.
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.