justice - use in sentences

Noun used with modifier

  • licensing: Licenses are granted by the local licensing justices or magistrates ' court.

Converse of object

  • administer: The courts aim to administer justice as defined by the law.
  • do: The picture on the cover did justice to the old ship.
  • uphold: No bullying of the innocent is allowed and it is encouraged to take up the cudgels to uphold justice and truth.
  • obstruct: Obstructing an investigation is an offense, and covers altering, concealing or destroying documents, or attempting to obstruct justice.
  • seek: It gave normal people the ability to directly access the King, to seek justice or to make complaint.

Possessives

  • clerk: Back to top Where do justices ' clerks fit?

Adjective modifier

  • criminal: By its nature, criminal justice is almost entirely negative.
  • distributive: Rawls, in contrast, argues that an egalitarian metric of distributive justice is uniquely appropriate in the domestic context.
  • social: Once social justice has been achieved, there is nothing more to talk about.
  • racial: They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice.
  • poetic: Poetic law has its place, as does poetic justice, but imprecise legal writing is poor legal writing.

Preposition: in

  • eyre: Earlier on, they could also be made in the Exchequer and before justices in eyre.

Modifies a noun

  • agency: Ministers have made it clear they wanted to see a much more strategic and 'joined up ' system of all the criminal justice agencies.

Noun used with modifier

  • youth: Further progress was also being made on speeding up youth justice.
  • trade: Now we're campaigning for trade justice, with new rules weighted in favor of the poor.

Preposition: of

  • peace: Power of justice of the peace to grant warrant to enter certain places.

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