13 sentences with 'court'
Example sentences and phrases with the word court and other words derived from it.
• « In a span of four years, the court instituted with IARC removed some 400 first-time nonviolent felony offenders from the normal, mostly ineffective criminal process and forced them into treatment. »
• « The court calculated that the Russians had made reasonable payments to him, totaling $140,000 net, for his espionage. »
• « The Centurial Assembly voted for consuls each year, declared war and peace, and acted as a court of appeal in legal cases involving the death penalty. It could also propose legislation, but the Senate had to approve it for it to become law. »
• « Pompey himself escaped to Egypt, where he was quickly assassinated by agents of Ptolemy's court who had read the proverbial writing on the wall and knew that Julius Caesar was the new power to deal with in Rome. »
• « According to Roman sources, the power of the ruling dynasty was limited both by court intrigue and by the frequency of invasions from the steppes (the usual problem of the settled dynasties of Mesopotamia and Persia going back to the very origins of civilisation). »
• « the peasants could not afford to fight the rich at court, and the rich had few scruples about hiring thugs to terrorise the peasants into submission. »
• « By Roman law slaves were held in such a subordinate position by the law that a slave's testimony was only permitted in court cases if it had been obtained by torture. »
• « Likewise, the emperors, being all generals at this point, constantly travelled with their armies and held court wherever they had to while campaigning. »
• « By the late 1400s virtually every royal court in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa had a Venetian ambassador in residence. »