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Advocate depute, Alex Prentice KC, representing the prosecution, said discussions over the case had been going on "for a long time".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The fiscal depute said the Crown position was that the number of fastening clips had been insufficient, and wave action on the journey would have been sufficient force to cause them to fail.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Advocate depute William Frain Bell KC told the men's trial: "The tax collectors in this case were a group of individuals who never had any intention of parting with the VAT."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

The advocate depute referred back to the statement she made in May 2024.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

To none could he depute this power without making him, in fact, the only person with whom the inferior party has to do, i. e. the God of the inferior party.

From The Essential Faith of the Universal Church Deduced from the Sacred Records by Harriet Martineau

Thirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2023

Under the terms of the latest offer, pay rises would be capped for those earning above £60,000 - principally some heads and deputes.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022

The deputes start moving toward him and he starts walking at them again.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

At about 10:40 p.m., deputes in Nash County tried to pull the vehicle over, Stone said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

"He deputes me to show you what we have."

From Lady Connie by Mrs. Humphry Ward

"But media teams deputed inside Jinnah Convention Centre do not know what's happening outside."

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

When he failed to do so, his cousin Amy Lowell took on the task: “I like to imagine that the task has been deputed to me in his stead.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

The day after his death, she was deputed to deliver an emotional speech to the world's press, who had gathered at the quayside.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021

He was usually deputed to pick up the opposing playmaker and the coach Bobby Haarms described him as being "like a kamikaze pilot" as he pursued him, often deep into opposition territory.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

On leaving Naghun we were joined by Aziz Khan, a petty chief, a retainer of Isfandyar Khan, who has been deputed to attend on the Agha, and who may be useful in various ways.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."

From Time Magazine Archive

On such a night as this he could not affront his Emperor and this brilliant assemblage by deputing his task to a subordinate.

From The Intriguers by William Le Queux

At one moment they half resolved on deputing a message to the chamber of the Prince; at another they discussed the propriety of departing in a body.

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever

But the ancient view, on which instructions are founded, made the deputy the agent of the deputing power, and much French history turns on it.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis

"Don't be deputing people to go on reckless errands!" she vociferated.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly