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America’s criminal justice system does not need to be heavily dramatised for the silver screen. The realities of mass incarceration are bleak enough
The cities of New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are suing the Department of Defense for failing to consistently report convictions to a federal database that is checked before firearms purchases
The cities of New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are suing the Department of Defense for failing to consistently report convictions to a federal database that is checked before firearms purchases
Suspect’s Conviction Was Never Put Into National Database
By RICHARD FAUSSET
Judge Upholds Conviction of Ex-Italian Leader6
On June 20, 1967, the boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
In “Summertime” he takes this schism one bracing step farther, by imagining himself already dead. The book is nominally a kind of rough-draft effort by Coetzee’s own biographer, an Englishman named Vincent, to build the case — through transcribed interviews with lovers and colleagues and other figures mentioned by Coetzee in his “posthumously” opened notebooks — for the years 1971-77 as an especially formative period in the late author’s life, “a period,” as Vincent would have it, “when he was still finding his feet as a writer.”
- the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment.
"the public would not be served by her incarceration" rough and ready
incarceration
ɪnˌkɑːsəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
draft
- 発音記号[drǽft | drɑ'ːft]
[名]
3 [U][C]((主に米))すきま風, 通風；（ストーブなどの）通気；[C]（ストーブ・暖炉などの）通気装置.
4 [U]（積み荷・車を）引くこと, 牽引(けんいん)（力）；[C]引かれる物, 引き網, 一網（の漁獲高）
5 [U]((米))（糧食・軍勢・資金の）調達, 徴発；((the 〜))徴兵［徴募］制度（((英))the conscription）；((集合的))徴募兵；《スポーツ》ドラフト制
6 ((時にthe 〜))選抜隊, 分遣隊.
7 [U][C]((主に英))手形振り出し, （手形などによる）金の引き出し；[C]為替手形, 小切手, 支払い命令書
10 [U][C]（船の）喫水.
11 《鋳造》抜き勾配(こうばい)；《石油工学》小叩縁(こたたきぶち).
in draft (form)
草稿で；計画［設計］の段階で.
━━[動](他)
2 …を引く, 引っ張る.
3 ((米))
(1) 〈人を〉（軍に）徴兵する（((英))call up）((into ...))
(2) 〈新人選手を〉ドラフトでとる.
(1) 〈人を〉（軍に）徴兵する（((英))call up）((into ...))
(2) 〈新人選手を〉ドラフトでとる.
━━(自)（自転車競技で風圧を避けるため）前車の直後を走る.
━━[形]((限定))
2 下絵の, 草案の.
3 たる出しの, 生の
Jobs question: What is a rough draft? Answer A pre-write, your first attempt, at a formal paper that usually is critiqued and improved on until you are ...
Definition of conviction
nounconviction[con・vic・tion]
- 発音記号[kənvíkʃən][名]
1 [U][C]（…との）確信, 信念((that節, of ...))
con・vic・tion・al
[形]conviction (CRIME)
noun [C or U]
when someone is officially found to be guilty of a particular crime:
As it was her first conviction for stealing, she was given a less severe sentence.
He has a long record of previous convictions for similar offences.
The conviction of the three demonstrators has caused public outrage locally.
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