The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

If we have five problems whose solution we seek in relatively united fashion, then there are twice as many issues which, I judge, sharply divide us, intergroup relations practitioners and lay people.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

A frustrated judge in an English ( adversarial ) court finally asked a barrister after witnesses had produced conflicting accounts, ' Am I never to hear the truth?

In the year AD 381, Pope Timothy I of Alexandria presided over the second ecumenical council known as the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, to judge Macedonious, who denied the Divinity of the Holy Spirit.

I judge it more suitable to shun and avoid the account of these things, as I said at the beginning.

It ... afforded scope for picturesque treatment, scenery and costume, and I think that the idea of a chief magistrate, who is ... judge and actual executioner in one, and yet would not hurt a worm, may perhaps please the public.

* If a man wants to throw his son out of the house, he has to go before a judge and say, " I don't want my son to live in my house any more.

Half-kidnapped into staying, he became chief judge and married into the royal family of Omar I.

In recognition of Davis ' bravery and initiative, commanding general Zachary Taylor is reputed to have said, " My daughter, sir, was a better judge of men than I was.

Landis later wrote, " I may not have been much of a judge, nor baseball official, but I do pride myself on having been a real shorthand reporter.

At the very end of the show, in " Court Charades ", the Inquisitors are caught by surprise when a defendant ( who is also a judge from another court ) in session at the Old Bailey says: " Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

" Five years after the publication of Hitler's Pope, Cornwell stated: " I would now argue, in the light of the debates and evidence following Hitler's Pope, that Pius XII had so little scope of action that it is impossible to judge the motives for his silence during the war, while Rome was under the heel of Mussolini and later occupied by Germany ".

" Dawkins therefore commits himself here to an empirical claim about the geological record, in contrast to his earlier claim that, " The paleontological evidence can be argued about, and I am not qualified to judge it.

* Giovanni Fasanella and Alberto Franceschini ( with a postface from judge Rosario Priore, who investigated on Aldo Moro's death ), Che cosa sono le BR I Miserabili ( " BRIGADES ROUGES.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

Once or twice there I thought the judge was going to wake up.

* March 12 – Innocent I dies after a 16-year reign in which he has restored relations between the sees of Rome and Antioch, enforced celibacy of the clergy, and maintained the right of the bishop of Rome to judge appeals from other churches.

In that case, concerned with a guarantee of payment for goods rather than payment of rent, the presiding judge explained that a guarantee effectively says " Let him have the goods ; if he does not pay you, I will.

I am not sure how to judge it, and have read no commentator who even begins to make sense of it ".

The Court's judge in respect of Russia, Anatoly Kovler, explaining his frequent dissenting opinions, noted that " I dislike when the Court evaluates non-European values as reactionary ( Refah v. Turkey )".

e all know that permanent judges acquire an esprit de corps ; that, being known, they are liable to be tempted by bribery ; that they are misled by favor, by relationship, by a spirit of party, by a devotion to the executive or legislative ; that it is better to leave a cause to the decision of cross and pile than to that of a judge biased to one side ; and that the opinion of twelve honest jurymen gives still a better hope of right than cross and pile does.

The judge ruled that when the novel was being discussed in class, the parents were allowed to have their children leave the classroom.

The state sentence was overturned on appeal, however, on grounds that the presiding judge had " the appearance of prejudice " because smoke from the fire had motivated him to voluntarily leave his home for one night.

" Nichols pointed to the firing and rehiring of police chief Bruce Nichols and to a town judge, who later was forced to leave his post, who pleaded no contest to clearing a woman's speeding ticket in exchange for solicited sex.

According to the judge, the 265 inscriptions found on December 6, 1992 after demolition of the disputed structure, along with other architectural remains, leave no room for doubt that the inscription is written in the script of Devnagri of 11th and 12th century.

The trial was so scandalous that at times, the judge would make everyone leave the room so as to listen to what young Vanderbilt had to say without anyone influencing her.

If the subject is unable to take care of his / her life necessities or if he / she is in conditions of absolute poverty, the judge may authorize him / her to leave his / her home for the strict necessary time to take care of said needs or to exercise a job.

* At sentencing the judge can grant offenders who receive a short-term sentence ( two years or less ) leave to apply for home detention.

In 1993, he asked for an extended leave of absence as a judge and went into politics, running for the Congress of Deputies ( the lower house of parliament ) on the party list of then ruling party PSOE.

A state court judge issued an injunction ordering the strikers to leave the plant.

How well they work I shall leave for you to judge.

If such an association does not exist, in most jurisdictions the property owner may petition a court of law to have the restrictive covenants modified or repealed, and the judge presiding over the case will making a ruling to either leave the covenants in place as is, amend the covenants, or strike them from the deed.

In April 2010 a judge released Castillo from probation " on the condition that he leave the United States and not return for a minimum of three years.

The YCJA reveals that a review, “ can be issued at anytime after six months of the initial youth sentence or, with leave of a youth justice court judge ” ( 56 ).

( b )) without the leave of the judge or of the court of appeal, and, in matters of practice and procedure, the appeal lies directly to the court of appeal from the judge in chambers.

On occasion, a judge will leave office at the end of a term, in which case a general election determines their replacement.

Only when they have satisfied a serving judge that they can handle themselves on the streets of Mega-City One can a rookie leave the Academy with his or her black helmet and full eagle badge.

The leave is likely to be used by batsmen during the first few balls they receive, to give themselves time to judge the conditions of the pitch and the bowling before attempting to play a shot.

After being arrested and impounded overnight, McQueen is ordered by the town's judge and doctor, Doc Hudson, to leave town immediately.

This is rather difficult to judge, contemporary accounts are dubious and it can be seen that the arrival of the Breton army of Arthur de Richemont, future duke of Brittany, Arthur III, with his powerful force of cavalry on the flank of the English, forcing them to leave their prepared defensive position, was more significant, although the early artillery fire from the two French guns played a role in that as well.

On 3 February 2006 the High Court refused leave to appeal, arguing that the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal had been left with no choice because of the many errors by the trial judge in sentencing Skaf to 46 years.

Although both Whiley and Bowman moved to weekend slots on Radio 1, the news that the duo would leave their weekday shows led to controversy, with BBC bosses facing allegations of being biased against older presenters, particularly as the announcement came shortly after the revelation that 30-year-old singer Alesha Dixon would replace the much older Arlene Phillips as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.

He was charged with " refusal to leave a police station " but was acquitted by a judge.