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TO STAND TRIAL

Definition: TO STAND TRIAL

TO STAND TRIAL

1. To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Commercial Usage: TO STAND TRIAL

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Books

  • Competency to Stand Trial & Mental Illness (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO STAND TRIAL

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Civil Liberties

Turkey

Several Christians in Istanbul continued to stand trial on charges of opening a Christian training institute without legal permission and violating Law 2911, which "prohibits unauthorized meetings and demonstrations," for holding church and bible study meetings in an apartment. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

In late 1999, President Pastrana authorized the first extradition in almost 10 years of a Colombian trafficker to stand trial for U.S. crimes. (references)

Paraguay

In December 2001, Brazil rejected Paraguay's petition to extradite Oviedo to stand trial for the March 1999 assassination and "marzo paraguayo" incident. (references)

Human Rights

Trinidad and Tobago

If there is sufficient evidence to support the charge, the accused is committed to stand trial before a judge and jury of the High Court. (references)

Russia

Although independent psychiatrists deemed Obukhov mentally unfit to stand trial, a court-appointed commission found him competent; human rights activists charge that the evaluation was based on political considerations and pressure from the FSB. In June 2000, the Moscow city court sentenced Obukhov to 11 years in prison for espionage. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

The suspects were charged under the Hudood Ordinances and were scheduled to stand trial in September 2000. However, one of the suspects was released for lack of evidence. (references)

Political Economy

Chile

On July 10, the Santiago Court of Appeals ruled that former president Pinochet was mentally unfit to stand trial, and temporarily suspended all legal proceedings in the Caravan of Death case against him pending an improvement in his condition. (references)

Political Rights

Turkey

Three southeast HADEP mayors, who were arrested in February 2000, continue to stand trial for "supporting an illegal organization (the PKK)" under Article 169 of the Penal Code. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO STAND TRIAL

Language Translations for "TO STAND TRIAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

voorkomen (appear, appear to be, appearance, aspect, be found, be located, come about, find oneself, forestall, happen, look, occur, prevent, seem, sight, view), voor de rechter verschijnen (to appear before a court, to appear before the court), in rechten verschijnen (to appear before a court), in rechte verschijnen (to appear before a court). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saapua oikeuden eteen (to appear before a court, to appear before the court). (various references)

   

French

  

paraître en jugement (to appear before a court), comparaître devant une juridiction (to appear before a court). (various references)

   

German

  

vor Gericht erscheinen (to appear before a court, to appear before the court). (various references)

   

Italian

  

comparire in giudizio (to appear before a court). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay andstay ialtray

   

Portuguese

  

comparecer em juízo (appear). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inställa sig inför rätta (to appear before a court, to appear before the court, to appear personally in court), inställa sig inför en domstol (to appear before a court). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO STAND TRIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-t-t"

-2 letters: altostrati, trainloads.

-3 letters: antidotal, antisolar, atonalist, dilatants, rationals, saltation, stational, trainload.

-4 letters: alations, antidora, antistat, arnattos, attaints, diastral, diatrons, dilatant, dilators, intrados, laniards, loadstar, notarial, ordinals, orinasal, radiants, rational, rattails, strontia, titrants, tonsilar, totalist, trinodal, trolands.

-5 letters: alastor, alation, aldrins, altoist, anattos, antiars, arnatto, aroints, artisan, attains, attaint, attorns, daltons, diatron, dilator, distant, distort.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-t-t"
 

+2 letters: traditionalist.

 

+3 letters: tatterdemalions, traditionalists.

 

+4 letters: traditionalistic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO STAND TRIAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      53 54 41 4E 44      54 52 49 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0054 0041 004E 0044      0054 0052 0049 0041 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492535435483825452433546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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