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- noun Plural form of
lawyer . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lawyer .
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/24/09: The Risks of a Partial Prosecution yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Risks of a Partial Prosecution'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: If Attorney General Eric Holder creates a special prosecutor for torture but forbids him or her to prosecute the lawyers who facilitated torture or the top officials who ordered it, proposing to go after only torturers who exceeded the limitations outlined in the lawyers\' memos, what are the risks? '
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Success of the lawyers 'movement in Pakistan yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Success of the lawyers\ 'movement in Pakistan'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: About the successful lawyers movement in Pakistan which turned into people\'s struggle for revival of democracy and free judiciary.'
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But I guess Corporations that retain lawyers is OK to the troll.
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"This is a case about a family's right to send a 14-year-old honor student to public school without her being forced to renounce her family's religious beliefs," wrote lawyers from the ACLU and the Raleigh firm Ellis & Winters in a brief supporting the lawsuit.
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And a legal group of lawyers is also at the stand-down.
Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Three Purple - Heart Recipient Jim Bryan Expects Victory As Florida Write - In Candidate J.D. Kathleen Wells 2010
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But on a deeper level, all the tax code is divert the efforts of these lawyers from a useful to a useless activity.
Faith in Leaders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It has since opened up to include lawyers from the UK, Canada, and Australia.
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"This is a case about a family's right to send a 14-year-old honor student to public school without her being forced to renounce her family's religious beliefs," wrote lawyers from the ACLU and the Raleigh firm Ellis & Winters in a brief supporting the lawsuit.
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A common protest, especially among non-lawyers, is that the judges are unelected.
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And a legal group of lawyers is also at the stand-down.
Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Three Purple - Heart Recipient Jim Bryan Expects Victory As Florida Write - In Candidate J.D. Kathleen Wells 2010
chained_bear commented on the word lawyers
Q: What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start.
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April 8, 2008