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Nilsson
Nilsson Singer, songwriter Signed by RCA Music for Movies and Television The Schmilsson Years Selected discography Sources Some have praised Nilsson as a genius and others have criticized him as indefensibly self-indulgent, but few deny the singularity of his work. And though his... Read more |
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Defendant
DEFENDANT The person defending or denying; the party against whom relief or recovery is sought in an action or suit, or the accused in a criminal case. In every legal action, whether civil or criminal, there are two sides. The person suing is the plaintiff and the person against whom the suit is... Read more |
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Counterclaim
COUNTERCLAIM A claim by a defendant opposing the claim of the plaintiff and seeking some relief from the plaintiff for the defendant. A counterclaim contains assertions that the defendant could have made by starting a lawsuit if the plaintiff had not already begun the action. It is governed by... Read more |
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Appearance
APPEARANCE A coming into court by a party to a suit, either in person or through an attorney, whether as plaintiff or defendant. The formal proceeding by which a defendant submits to the jurisdiction of the court. The voluntary submission to a court's jurisdiction. In a criminal prosecution, an... Read more |
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Rejoinder
REJOINDER The answer made by a defendant in the second stage of common-law pleading that rebuts or denies the assertions made in the plaintiff's replication. The rejoinder allows a defendant to present a more responsive and specific statement challenging the allegations made against him or her by... Read more |
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Prosecutor
PROSECUTOR One who prosecutes another for a crime in the name of the government. State and county governments employ prosecutors to represent their local communities in complaints against criminal defendants. On the federal level, the president appoints prosecutors to represent the United States... Read more |
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Defenders
Defenders, secret society, originally the Catholic opponents of the Peep of Day Boys in Co. Armagh. From 1790 Defenderism spread into other Ulster counties, and into the northern half of Leinster, including Dublin city. During 1794–5 an explosion of Defender activity in Connacht led to Lord... Read more |
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Chicago Defender
Chicago Defender The Chicago Defender was founded in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, a journalist and lawyer from Georgia. He started the newspaper with almost no capital and worked out of the dining room of his landlady, who supported him during the first years of operation. The paper was... Read more |
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Plea
PLEA A formal response by the defendant to the affirmative assertions of the plaintiff in a civil case or to the charges of the prosecutor in a criminal case. Under the old system of common-law pleading, a plea was the defendant's first pleading in a case, the document in which he set out reasons... Read more |
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SENATE REPUBLICAN BUDGET COMMITTEE MEMBERS: "SENATE DEMOCRATS MUST STOP...
...Majority Democrats to stop defending the continuation of...continues to defend the indefensible. It is totally incomprehensible...Majority Democrats to stop defending the continuation of...continues to defend the indefensible. It is totally ... |
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Defending indefensible
...experience in other states indicating rates in the beginning years of a choice program are modest. PSBA is defending the indefensible -- years of persistent failure in approximately 144 school buildings with nothing to offer except its tired... |
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Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, Defending the Indefensible: The Global...
...and Geoffrey Tweedale, Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos...asbestos? After reading Defending the Indefensible the emphatic answer I...McCulloch and Tweedale make Defending the Indefensible the book on asbestos ... |
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Defending the indefensible.(Commentary)(Editorials)
...all too eager to defend the indefensible and to spin whatever military...words, Gen. Shelton was defending the indefensible, hailing a White House defense...commander-in-chief's indefensible defense budget for fiscal... |
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DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE?
...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-24-2001 DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE?Date: 08-24-2001, FridaySection: OPINION...reading "Free the Emerson 60" and finds himself defending the indefensible. Who would have the gall to buy these shirts... |
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DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE
...The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-29-1996 DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLEDate: 12-29-1996, SundaySection...what they really are -- a scheme team! Lawyers defending the indefensible should not be extolled for their efforts. My three... |
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Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for...
Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival. By Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Oxford University... |
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Defending the indefensible in claiming planning system works;...
TYPICAL of Coun Maton (right), chair of planning committee, defending the indefensible when he says he believed the present system was working. (Planning chief defends meeting no-Shows, Telegraph, June 14... |
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DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE?(Defence policy of defense ministers in european...
...To distract discussion from the principal questions with a decoy of minor tasks risks compounding the problem. It could leave the EU without an adequate defence capability and condemn it in policy terms to defending the indefensible. |
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Defending the indefensible
...against such odds? Britain abandoned the Channel Islands as indefensible in 1940. British submarines and aircraft based on Malta...convoys to North Africa, but there is a good argument that defending the island cost the British more than they would have gained... |
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