magistrate

Definition:
1. A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice.
2. An official who acts as a judge in the lowest courts of law.

Use 'magistrate' in a sentence:

• 1. In wind and cold, the county magistrate himself came to direct operations.
• 2. Set the public telephone and E-mail county magistrate;
• 3. Long long ago, a county magistrate named Wang Lu worked in present Anhui Province, east China.
• 4. But the woman failed to turn up to court and the magistrate struck out the case.
• 5. In the North, a magistrate might have imposed a fine or a brief jail sentence for aiding those escaping.
• 6. The Magistrate System and Its Reference.
• 7. They came in a huge truck full of police men, plus two police women, plus a plain clothes intelligence agent and a magistrate.
• 8. Then one day two farmers came to the magistrate hoping he might settle a dispute.
• 9. The magistrate refused his bail .
• 10. The magistrate refused his bail.
• 11. Why did you tell the magistrate your name was waters?
• 12. And you tell me this magistrate expressed great sympathy and commiseration for you?
• 13. The president is the chief magistrate of the United state.
• 14. This great poet used to be the magistrate of yangzhou.
• 15. The lawyer made a brief, telling speech to the magistrate.
• 16. When the magistrate asked Wang what had happened, he answered, "Zhou said that there were fresh red dates in it when he gave me the jar a year ago." The magistrate examined the jar and the fresh red dates in it carefully. Then he said: "Bring the ingots back, Wang Wu!" How did the county magistrate infer that Wang was lying?
• 17. He set to work to draft his statement to the magistrate.
• 18. The thief was brought before the magistrate.
• 19. The magistrate committed him to prison for a month.
• 20. 'Too late. He must go before the magistrate now.'
• 21. I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
• 22. Mr Linton was a magistrate, and though he had fifty wives dead, he should inquire into this.
• 23. He came up before the local magistrate for speeding.
• 24. As magistrate of Chun'an for four years.
• 25. He was wanted for the murder of a magistrate.
• 26. At last one day, when he was Deputy Magistrate of Hawrah, I made bold to call on him.
• 27. The magistrate imposed a fine.
• 28. On the Examination of the County Magistrate in the First Years of the Republic.
• 29. The trattic magistrate heard the man's explanation for getting a parking ticket.
• 30. Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
• 31. "Come nearer," said the magistrate, with a patronizing wave of the hand, "and tell me to what circumstance I owe the honor of this visit."
• 32. The magistrate should obey the Laws, the people should obey the magistrate.
• 33. It may be done under a warrant granted by a magistrate.
• 34. Magistrate seems to be different for each computer to calculate the time stoppage time.
• 35. And although often painted as a recluse, Darwin served as a local magistrate, meting out justice in his dining room.
• 36. Cases involving minor summary offences are heard by magistrates' courts presided over by a full-time legally qualified resident magistrate.
• 37. I was terrified with news that the magistrate had ordered that I should go to service.
• 38. Tao Yuanming wouldn't bow and scrape for five pecks of rice ( the regulation salary of a magistrate).
• 39. The magistrate bound him over to be of good behaviour.
• 40. This is the last case which the magistrate will hear before lunch.
• 41. There is not among them an esquire, saving the unlettered magistrate.
• 42. And she traveled in this way to the magistrate's home.
• 43. She will face a local magistrate on Tuesday.
• 44. Would their new magistrate be as nice?
• 45. The man came up before the magistrate on a charge of theft.
• 46. A magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house.
• 47. A city magistrate ruled that the novel was obscene and copies should be destroyed.
• 48. I hope the magistrate has not been too severe with him.
• 49. He chose not to appear in court, where a magistrate revealed his identity.
• 50. John is a police magistrate and he works very hard.
• 51. I thought that the magistrate was going to fine me but he let me off.
• 52. In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.
• 53. Local people demanded that the District Magistrate apprehend the miscreants.
• 54. The crown court, however, upheld the magistrate's decision.