Word: verdict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whether or not the Mariners advance to the World Series, the transformation will still have taken place. The city that has labored for so long in the cloudy depths of obscurity finally has its opportunity. Despite the verdict usually in favor of the prosecution...
...left him without the old-boy network essential to every Prime Minister. Instead, he surrounded himself with remarkably undistinguished loyalists who did not have the cleverness or clout to head off mistakes or remedy them. Last week, just before the bombing, the police were getting ready to deliver their verdict on allegedly corrupt deals behind his misguided appointment of a thoroughly underqualified Attorney General. Even if Netanyahu escapes direct taint, two close aides could face indictment...
During the question and answer period following the reading, Foster discussed the impacts, both negative and positive, of the Los Angeles riots following the "not guilty" verdict in the Rodney King beating trial...
Then, a hero rose from amongst the tortured masses. George Economou 100, an always enterprising young lad, ventured from the attic of Thayer's 5th floor to investigate the conspicuous absence of his housing verdict. Arriving on the 1st floor, he noticed the pile of mysterious envelopes and watched as an innocent custodian moved to dispose of them. Boldly intervening, George snatched the envelopes back from the brink of oblivion and confirmed that they were, in fact, the much awaited housing results. A lesser man would have simply removed his own envelope. George is not a lesser man. He removed...
...same people who cheered the verdict in Simpson's first trial criticized the decision in the second. As a black man, I understand their disillusionment just as I understood their jubilation. But why are so many so emotional about the whole affair? A number of those who rooted for Simpson's acquittal in the criminal trial openly expressed doubts about his innocence. Nevertheless they applauded the first decision with some misgivings. Why then are these people bemoaning the second verdict? The answer is that for blacks and whites alike, the issue was never Simpson's guilt or liability...