depute
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Bain served as an advocate depute in the Crown Office from 2002 to 2011, securing the first murder conviction against serial killer Peter Tobin during that time.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In 2009 she was appointed the principal advocate depute, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this post.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Advocate depute William Frain Bell KC told the men's trial: "The tax collectors in this case were a group of individuals who never had any intention of parting with the VAT."
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Advocate depute Alan Cameron KC told the hearing a list of witnesses and documents had been lodged which included a draft joint agreement of evidence.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
If anyone charges a clerk, let him go to his bishop, for the bishop himself to hear the case, or depute judges.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Thirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2023
Under the terms of the latest offer, pay rises would be capped for those earning above £60,000 - principally some heads and deputes.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022
The deputes start moving toward him and he starts walking at them again.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
At about 10:40 p.m., deputes in Nash County tried to pull the vehicle over, Stone said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022
He must be able to feel that the thing which he deputes to each will be as surely and as faithfully done as though done by his own hand.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
"But media teams deputed inside Jinnah Convention Centre do not know what's happening outside."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
When he failed to do so, his cousin Amy Lowell took on the task: “I like to imagine that the task has been deputed to me in his stead.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
The day after his death, she was deputed to deliver an emotional speech to the world's press, who had gathered at the quayside.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
He was usually deputed to pick up the opposing playmaker and the coach Bobby Haarms described him as being "like a kamikaze pilot" as he pursued him, often deep into opposition territory.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
In 1584, Gregory also sanctioned the league, on the exposé of the Jesuit Mathieu, who was deputed to Rome for this purpose.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."
From Time Magazine Archive
One-half the learned world is amused in tinkering obsolete armour, as Don Quixote did his helmet; deputing it, after a series of catastrophes, to be at last sound and invulnerable.
From The Life of Reason by George Santayana
The white men, deputing with the consent of all the chiefs, were to be allowed to pass down the river.
From Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Emperor now became seriously anxious, and, after a consultation with his attendants, resolved on deputing Manzur Ali to seek a personal explanation with Gholam Kadir and Ismail Beg.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
This resulted in Dost Mahomed sending his son and heir-apparent, Sardar Ghulam Haidar Khan, to Peshawar, and deputing him to act as his Plenipotentiary in the negotiations.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
