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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 Alan Cameron put it to her that it was "just nonsense" to suggest another child caused such injuries.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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

The advocate depute asked: "I am asking you as you stand here on oath if you remember were there any grievances on the Edradynate between Brian and David?"

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

By virtue of this, the corporation of Bewdley consists of a bailiff, a recorder, a high steward, and twelve capital burgesses, who depute one member to parliament, the bailiff being the returning officer.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

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

To that end Mr. Talbot, Tyrell, and Nicholas Wogan, amongst others, were deputed to travel into England, ready for the moment of striking.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

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

Then, instead of deputing ecclesiastics or great dignitaries to present the Emperor's letter to Pius VII.,

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various

Now really I do thank Madame for deputing me to wait more especially on Monsieur Manuel.

From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Pierrepont Edwards

In this dilemma the squatter was obliged to constitute the girl herself castellan; taking care, however, in deputing this important trust, to omit no words of caution and instruction.

From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper