Acquitted
in sentence
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Judge Mahmoud Mekki has been acquitted, and Judge Hisham al-Bastawisy, who suffered a heart attack the night before, has merely been reprimanded.
Last month, however, the military prosecutor accepted Colonel Budanov's argument that he was temporarily insane when he killed the girl, and so
acquitted
Budanov on the charge of murder.
(Medina was
acquitted
of murder.)
The post-pandemic economy is likely to be anemic, not just in countries that have failed to manage the pandemic (namely, the United States), but even in those that have
acquitted
themselves well.
The group
acquitted
itself well in responding to the global financial crisis, and, for a while, its emergence as a forum for international policy coordination seemed like one of the only silver linings of that mess.
The House’s lead prosecutor, Adam Schiff, was probably correct that Trump, once acquitted, would likely go further in undermining the integrity of the coming presidential election.
But that can happen only if he is
acquitted.
Yet, after several years in ICC custody, Gbagbo was recently
acquitted
of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Almost six months later, it is clear that South Korea has once again
acquitted
itself well.
The second was the special counsel investigation of President Bill Clinton, who was impeached in the US House of Representatives in 1998, but
acquitted
by the Senate in February 1999.
Such change was the goal behind Black Lives Matter, a nonviolent movement founded seven years ago, after George Zimmerman was
acquitted
of all charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Florida.
Trump assumes that, with a two-thirds majority required to convict him and remove him from office, he will be
acquitted.
To be sure, the world’s leading democracies have not
acquitted
themselves well in the current crisis.
Julien
acquitted
himself in a decent fashion of everything that is due to public opinion in the provinces.
It's odd, but true, that people feel more confidence in this time than they do after they've been
acquitted.
I've been talking here as if there's a long delay between apparent acquittal and re-arrest, that is quite possible and I do know of cases like that, but it's just as likely that the defendant goes home after he's been
acquitted
and finds somebody there waiting to re-arrest him.
The trial doesn't stop, but the defendant is almost as certain of avoiding conviction as if he'd been
acquitted.
"But they also prevent his being properly acquitted," said K. quietly, as if ashamed to acknowledge it.
Henry must be acquitted; perhaps not tried.
He looked a little disturbed at the assurance with which I seemed to speak it, and came and sat down by me, having first shut the door; upon which I began, for I was very much provoked, and turning myself to him, 'I am afraid,' says I, 'my dear' (for I spoke with kindness on his side), 'that you have a very great abuse put upon you, and an injury done you never to be repaired in your marrying me, which, however, as I have had no hand in it, I desire I may be fairly
acquitted
of it, and that the blame may lie where it ought to lie, and nowhere else, for I wash my hands of every part of it.'
In short, I was found guilty of felony, but
acquitted
of the burglary, which was but small comfort to me, the first bringing me to a sentence of death, and the last would have done no more.
They had been duped, for they had just
acquitted
him.
Mr. Weller, by his master's permission, retired to spend the evening in his own way; and was shortly afterwards elected, by the unanimous voice of the assembled company, into the taproom chair, in which honourable post he
acquitted
himself so much to the satisfaction of the gentlemen-frequenters, that their roars of laughter and approbation penetrated to Mr. Pickwick's bedroom, and shortened the term of his natural rest by at least three hours.
And as they cried at the subsequent ceremony in the proper places, and trembled at the right times, they
acquitted
themselves to the admiration of all beholders.
James McCarthy was
acquitted
at the Assizes on the strength of a number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and submitted to the defending counsel.
But you really do admit the justice of what I have said in his defence?--I am happy--and he is acquitted."
Willoughby, "poor Willoughby," as she now allowed herself to call him, was constantly in her thoughts; she would not but have heard his vindication for the world, and now blamed, now
acquitted
herself for having judged him so harshly before.
This caused so rapid and complete a diversion from the attack that d’Artagnan’s adversary, while the latter turned round to face this shower of blows, sheathed his sword with the same precision, and instead of an actor, which he had nearly been, became a spectator of the fight--a part in which he
acquitted
himself with his usual impassiveness, muttering, nevertheless, "A plague upon these Gascons!
If not, I will apply to the chancellor, I will apply to the king, I will apply to the hangman, I will move the courts against you, I will denounce you as branded, I will bring you to trial; and if you are acquitted, well, by the faith of a gentleman, I will kill you at the corner of some wall, as I would a mad dog.’""I like the means well enough," said d’Artagnan, "but where and how to meet with her?""Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man.
Quick, attentive, he
acquitted
himself perfectly, changing the plates, bringing dishes, pouring out water, all with a gravity which gave intense amusement to the settlers, and which enraptured Pencroft.
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