Word: trialing
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...delicate handiwork, we were aware of the grandeur of what we had accomplished. Already the gummy bear gypsies began to congregate at the front steps. Neither war nor revolution, neither tableshaking nor hungry bystanders could destroy what we had created that day.Finally, we stood before the last judgment, a trial we were well prepared to face. House tutors walked around the dining hall, asking questions like “What does your gingerbread house represent?” (the House of God!) and “Is it to scale?” (YES!). Aliza took pains to explain...
...next stop is better, but not much better, and there are several more stops after that. Edwards' passionate, populist stump speech reminds you that his greatest strength as a trial lawyer used to be his closing argument. But this is Iowa, where all closing arguments are being delivered to hung juries. Even the people who support Edwards aren't so sure...
...were watching the movie version of the terrorism trial that ended Thursday in Miami, Fla., you might walk out around the time the seven suspects take an oath to al-Qaeda in a warehouse. The scene would feel so contrived, such a low-budget mockumentary of itself, that you might not be able to stomach another second...
...Thursday, after nine days of deliberation, a jury acquitted one of the defendants, Lyglenson Lemorin, and gave up on the remaining six. The judge declared mistrials in those cases, and a new trial is scheduled for next year. It was a major loss for the government. In 2006, after the arrests, then-U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales heralded the arrests and warned that, if "left unchecked, these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al-Qaeda...
...leaders have since disavowed any links to the men.) On March 16, 2006, the men were recorded by the FBI vowing to be Islamic soldiers and to act at the direction of al-Qaeda, according to a motion filed by the government, which played the tape twice during the trial...