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The advocate depute added: "The accused's vehicle crashed head-on, which caused both vehicles to come to a stop."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The advocate depute suggested there were "significant similarities" in the testimony of each witness.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The fiscal depute said the Crown position was that the number of fastening clips had been insufficient, and wave action on the journey would have been sufficient force to cause them to fail.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Advocate depute Chris McKenna previously told the court that the 15-year-old girl had spent the evening at a friend's home before walking along Lothian Road to a bus stop.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Do not let her sacrifice, or depute any one else to sacrifice, without the orders of her master or mistress; for it must be understood that the master sacrifices for all the household.

From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton

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

Here we made our first acquaintance with those fascinating gentry, whom his Imperial Majesty deputes to watch that nothing treasonable or contraband finds entrance into his dominions.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

"But media teams deputed inside Jinnah Convention Centre do not know what's happening outside."

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

"So far we have captured 10 leopards," says AK Singh, the forest official deputed of the district.

From BBC ● May 18, 2023

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

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

He was, however, soon liberated, took his seat in the parliament of 1659-1660, and was one of the twelve members deputed to carry the message of the Commons to Charles II. at the Hague.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Sooba's wife followed closely at her heels deputing another woman to take up her duties.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

The practice of deputing certain vessels to art as "parent ships" to a covey of waterplanes has proved as successful in practice, as in theory.

From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

The Church is chary of deputing these powers, which she undoubtedly possesses; and few ladies are likely to receive them.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett