Committals

He referred to the recommendations for promotion that Grant and Sherman had given these officers in a former campaign, and to "committals" which had been drawn from him which he "could neither honorably nor safely disregard." ❋ Jacob Dolson Cox (1864)

DCWs can't do committals, at least not yet, but as the system continues to dumb down and take the cheap option I expect that these 'Lawyer-Lite' types soon to be renamed 'Associate Prosecutors' will end up doing everything that qualified lawyers now do, at least in the lower courts. ❋ Bystander (2008)

I was in a remand court, dealing for the most part with first appearances, committals, and sentencing. ❋ Bystander (2008)

CHAPLAIN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: Yes, T.J., it is it's an interesting thing to imagine that you would do 30 committals per day five days per week. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We then dealt with a few committals to the Crown Court, that were put before us because we had a proper Crown Prosecutor, rather than the Designated Case Worker who was in the Remand Court. ❋ Bystander (2008)

“Away,” he declared, “withall parties, all platforms, all previous committals, and whatever else will stand in the way of restoration of the American Union!” ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)

As for the current negotiations, Munro pointed out to me that the Chinese Society of Psychiatrists is relatively powerless compared to the Chinese government's Public Security Bureau, which does most of the actual psychiatric committals of dissidents and Falun Gong activists. ❋ Mirsky, Jonathan (2003)

He was one of the few defence barristers who shone at committals. ❋ McDermid, Val (1999)

In the fiscal year ending March 31, 1977, there were approximately 60,000 committals to Ontario jails. ❋ Unknown (1978)

In a union revival in an Eastern city practically all the Protestant churches worked together for a month, and we could not count five definite committals to Christ. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Both are fatally handicapped by their connections and committals. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The objections to a premature presentation of a plan by the National Executive consist in the danger of committals on points which could be more safely left to further developments. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

Sometimes these perpetual evadings and non-committals seemed to Dr. Macgowan like art; but they were really the very simplicity of absolute unselfishness; and, gradually, as he came to perceive and understand this, he came to have a reverence for Hetty. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)