presentment
Example Sentences
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Four other officers who were on the scene and had taken cover did not fire their weapons, according to a grand jury presentment.
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2020
In 1811, a grand jury in the Mississippi Territory forwarded the House of Representatives its presentment specifying charges against federal territorial Judge Harry Toulmin, which set in motion a House impeachment inquiry.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2020
“Hopefully," he said, "we can end this with his arrest and presentment before the court.”
From Fox News • May 22, 2019
A presentment is a formal accusation brought by the grand jury on its own motion, rather than that of the prosecutor.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
Increasing complexities, structural and functional, are indispensable to the presentment of the attributes of the higher species, Man.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
