`` My experience as public safety commissioner '', Roos said, `` has shown me that the office of sheriff is best filled by a man with law enforcement experience, and preferably one who is a lawyer.

A memorable scene in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny involves the defense lawyer humorously trapping a prosecution witness in a contradiction by using the cooking time of grits.

My father was a lawyer and was in partnership with two Jews, who with their families were close to us.

His other television roles include: Hagath in the episode " Business as Usual " in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; Stilgar in the 2003 miniseries Children of Dune ; a gangster ( Mr Wiltshire ) in episode 8 of the BBC's Hotel Babylon series ; a lawyer ( Freddie Eccles ) in an episode of ITV's Marple entitled By the Pricking of My Thumbs ; and Adolf Hitler in the mini-series War and Remembrance, role he originally baulked at taking, primarily on moral grounds ; he later relented.

* Harvey Richards Esq., Lawyer for Children is about a lawyer who works for children by using the standard children's tricks for getting out of things or getting people to do things (" My fingers were crossed!

Criminal defenders, professors, and other lawyers use the film to demonstrate voir dire and cross examination, and United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has cited My Cousin Vinny as an example of the principle that a client can choose his own lawyer.

My lawyer said that I was under mental duress when I signed the contract so the contract is void.

And when a speaker delivers the utterance, " My husband is a lawyer ", it implies that the speaker is married to a man.

My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candour: how to kill him without getting into trouble ... I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from whose nonexistence the college would benefit, but I balked at the prospect of misleading a coroner's jury ... consulting a lawyer to see if would be legally at risk if ignored a suicide call.

In November 1969, after the My Lai massacre became known, the Bertrand Russell Foundation, with antiwar activists Jeremy Rifkin and lawyer Tod Ensign, organized the Citizens Commission of Inquiry ( CCI ) in the United States to document American war crimes in Vietnam.

* My girlfriend and I met my lawyer for a drink, but she became ill and had to leave.

Meanwhile, Baltar smuggles writings out of his cell through his lawyer, which are published in a memoir, My Triumphs, My Mistakes.

Charles Lowell, D. D., wrote in a personal letter eight decades later, “ My father introduced into the Bill of Rights the clause by which Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts ... and when it was adopted, exclaimed: ' Now there is no longer Slavery in Massachusetts, it is abolished and I will render my services as a lawyer gratis to any slave suing for his freedom if it is withheld from him ...' and he did so defend the negro slave against his master under this clause of the constitution which was declared valid by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1783, and since that time Slavery in Mass.

She added, though, " My husband may not have the education of a lawyer, scholar or the like, but if reputation, honesty, service and truth were the only requisite, he is amply qualified to fill the high position to which his friends would elect him.

On television, in addition to a recent stint on All My Children, Kudisch played a kinky lawyer on Sex and the City and was also the spokesperson for Toyota in the U. S. for several years.

My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;

`` My personal view is that not one patented invention in ten is worth making '', he later told a Congressional committee.

** My " friend " just told the whole school my secret.

Cassavetes told Scorsese he should do something like Who's That Knocking At My Door, which Cassavetes had liked, and then came Mean Streets, which was based on actual events Scorsese saw almost regularly while growing up in Little Italy.

At that supper, then, Mary received the glorious encomium, " she hath wrought a good work upon Me ... in pouring this ointment upon My body she hath done it for My burial ... wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached ... that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her.

As the sun shone, he went to Edebali and told him: “ My Sheik, I saw you in my dream.

" Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that: " My favorite single is ' My Favorite Mistake ,' it was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play.

During his debriefing, his son Dr. Asim Mahmood, who's a family medicine doctor told ISI officials that: My father did meet with Osama bin Laden and Osama Bin Laden seemed interested in that matter but my father only showed mild interest in the matter as he met him for food, water matter issues that he was sent there for official work.

His teacher is said to have told him: " My boy, you will be nothing insignificant, but definitely something great, either for good or evil.

My husband told me that when he was a lad of seventeen a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries.

When my parents traveled on the lecture circuit, she once laughingly told a Lansing, Michigan, paper ...: ' My husband never knows where his trips will take him ....

* The Residents included a song called " My Nigerian Friend " in their 2008 multimedia production The Bunny Boy: " He said that he was hiding from the government, And said that he was dying and had to find a friend, He offered me some money, if he could use my name, I told him I liked bunnies, then he went away.

A more fictional account is given in the My Story book series, The Queen's Spies ( retitled To Kill A Queen 2008 ) told in diary format by a fictional Elizabethan girl, Kitty.

There is also a story told by Murdoch's son John of a visit by Trevithick and Andrew Vivian to see a model engine in 1794: The model of the wheel carriage engine was made in the summer of 1792 and was then shown to many of the inhabitants of Redruth – about two years after Trevithick and A. Vivian called at my father's house in Redruth ... My father mentions that ... on that day they asked him to show his model of the wheel carriage engine which worked with strong steam and no vacuum.

In 1998, after Welch was snubbed by the Hall, he told Cleveland's daily newspaper, The Plain Dealer, " My era was the bridge era.

" It was in response to Linda's loss that we chose Tears ," he told the Phoenix, " because Flow My Tears is in fact a novel about grief, and not necessarily just about loss of identity.

described some of the atrocities by the soldiers at My Lai, that he had been told about.

Thomas Mara Jr. testifies that his father had told him that Santa was real and that " My daddy wouldn't tell me anything that wasn't so.

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

McGee dropped My Bloody Valentine from Creation soon after the album's release because he could not bear working with Shields again ; " It was either him or me ", he told The Guardian in 2004.

He recorded All That May Do My Rhyme for the Trance Syndicate label, owned by the Butthole Surfers's King Coffey, who claimed Erickson told him it was the first time he'd ever been given a royalty check for his music.

After a long silence, Rubinstein told Cortot, " My boy, don't you ever forget what I am going to tell you.

My men, they all left me.

`` My doctors assure me that this increased percentage of risk is not great ''.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink, scented stationery and the unsloped, almost printed configurations of her neat, studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer, so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when ; ;

'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.

My enemies were only too anxious to level against me such charges as `` reactionary '', `` robber baroness '', and even `` traitor ''!!

My instructions were that Mr. Nishimo would meet me at the hotel, but instead he and three others were at the station with a very warm welcome.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

`` My aunt raised me.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

My mother wanted to call me Sylphide, but it sounded too affected ''.

`` My mother never wops me.

My folks and my faith protected me from things like that.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

He always made it a point to send me champagne whenever he happened to see me in a restaurant ..." ( from Frank Sinatra, My Father by Nancy Sinatra, 1985 ).

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

It was after returning to Edinburgh in 1752, as he wrote in My Own Life, that " the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library ".

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.