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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mete .
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Examples
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Examining the social costs, Mummert exposes the rank injustice and provides action links for battling outrageous terms meted for nonviolent crimes.
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Japan's ancient sport has been rocked to the core by numerous scandals in recent years, including drug offenses, a death threat and a six - year prison term meted out to a stablemaster over physical abuse leading to the death of a 17-year-old wrestler.
News On Japan 2010
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Rajah added that the jail term meted out to Lim Teck Choon, 56, took into account mitigating factors raised by his lawyer.
Lim Kit Siang 2009
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Rajah added that the jail term meted out to Lim Teck Choon, 56, took into account mitigating factors raised by his lawyer.
Lim Kit Siang 2009
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Rajah added that the jail term meted out to Lim Teck Choon, 56, took into account mitigating factors raised by his lawyer.
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Hopefully there will be maximum prison terms meted out to send the message south that Americans don't like our horses killed for the sick fun of illegal aliens.
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Hence, actively, it means here "a people meting out, -- an all-destroying people"; which suits the context better than "meted," passively [Maurer].
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Even more remarkably, in many cases, the resistant slave was allowed to live, and sometimes no punishment was meted out at all.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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But American administrations, first at a state then a national level, became disgusted by the justice they saw meted out to their citizens by the Strand.
As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it? 2011
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It marks the third such punishment that the network has meted out to a host in the last year.
Ed Schultz Apologizes: Laura Ingraham Comments 'Vile And Inappropriate' (VIDEO) 2011
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