Word Finder - trial

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An opportunity to test something out; a test.

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They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.

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Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.

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A difficult or annoying experience.

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That boy was a trial to his parents.

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A tryout to pick members of a team.

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soccer trials

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A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.

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An internal examination set by Eton College.

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To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.

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The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.

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To try out (a new player) in a sports team.

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The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.

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Pertaining to a trial or test.

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Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

He would simply have to learn by trial and error.

He was sent for trial and condemned to hard labor, I believe.

He may turn pale when the trial comes.

I thought I might be able to fix the time setting by trial and error but I was at a loss establishing a location.

A formal appeals process and trial by jury are commonplace.

Princess Mary says it is a trial sent from above.

The Senate elects a president, confirms or rejects the nominations of the governor, and acts as a court of impeachment for the trial of public officers, besides sharing in legislative functions.

The trial of St Athanasius led to extensions of the right of appeal.

The next evening after the trial the little girl begged Ozma to allow her to look in the enchanted picture, and the Princess readily consented.

What is the trial for, when he is not here and will never return?

His demeanour at the trial was quiet and dignified; and on the 31st of October 1793 he died bravely with several other Girondists.

One Gallup poll at the time said more people knew about the trial than knew the full name of the president.

To distract his thoughts he drove that day to the village of Vorontsovo to see the great balloon Leppich was constructing to destroy the foe, and a trial balloon that was to go up next day.

She hesitated again, not sure she was ready for another trial.

On the 27th of October 1457 he took part in the trial and condemnation for heresy of Reginald Pecock, bishop of Chichester, who had been ordained subdeacon and deacon on the same day and by the same bishop as Waynflete himself.

The court of the metropolitan takes the place of the provincial synod, except possibly for the trial of bishops, and even this becomes doubtful.

Filippo married and then beheaded Beatrice after a mock trial for adultery, having used her money and her influence in reuniting several subject cities to the crown of Milan.

It wouldn't do to taint Fred O'Connor's open mind about the Dawkinses before the trial.

You'd think you were on trial today instead of sitting in a jury box.

The ordinance establishing the special tribunal for the trial was passed by a remnant of the House of Commons alone, from which all dissentients were excluded by the army.

Verres vainly tried to get the trial postponed till 69 when his friend Metellus would be the presiding judge, but in August Cicero opened the case.

However large the wealth he brought back from India, all was swallowed up in defraying the expenses of his trial.

I interfered.  You have until he passes or fails the final trial.

Chip Burgess was killed in a prison knifing before standing trial.

I'm considering keeping you, Jessi, assuming you survive this trial.

From 1875 onwards Smith contributed to the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long series of important articles, which, together with the articles of Cheyne, Wellhausen and others, made that work an important factor in the change which was to pass over English thought in regard to the Bible; in 1878, by his pleadings in the trial for heresy brought against him on the ground of these articles, he turned a personal defeat in the immediate issue into a notable victory for the cause which led to his condemnation; and subsequently (in 1880), in two series of lectures, afterwards published 2 and widely read, he gave a brilliant, and, as it proved, to a rapidly increasing number a convincing exposition of the criticism of the literature, history and religion of Israel, which was already represented in Germany 2 The Old Testament in the Jewish Church (1881); The Prophets of Israel (1882).

Gregory XIV., by the bull Ecclesiae Christi (July 28, 1591), again confirmed the Society, and granted that Jesuits might, for true cause, be expelled from the body without any form of trial or even documentary procedure, besides denouncing excommunications against every one, save the pope or his legates, who directly or indirectly infringed the constitutions of the Society or attempted to bring about any change therein.

The bill passed, among its provisions being one enabling the Irish government to arrest without trial persons "reasonably suspected" of crime and conspiracy.

Martha rolled her eyes, beginning to share her husband's opinion of our little trial.

Fred continued to be mum about the trial.

Its function is to examine criminal cases and to decide whether they shall be referred for trial to the lower courts or the cours dassises.

Jarrah timber is nearly impervious to the attacks of the teredo, and there is good evidence to show that, exposed to wear and weather, or placed under the soil, or used as submarine piles, the wood remained intact after nearly fifty years' trial.

During the next few weeks Cromwell appears to have made once more attempts to come to terms with Charles; but the king was inflexible in his refusal to part with the essential powers of the monarchy, or with the Church; and at the end of December it was resolved to bring him to trial.

In many instances the conviction of a temporal court is made conclusive on the bishop without further trial.

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction on the civil side for the trial of causes soon disappeared.

Laptyev sailed, but was stopped by the drift ice in August, and in 1739, during another trial, he reached the mouth of the Indigirka, where he wintered.

On the demand of Lennox, Darnley's father, Bothwell was put upon his trial, in April, but Lennox, having been forbidden to enter the city with more than six attendants, refused to attend, and Bothwell was declared not guilty.

The trial occupied two days and resulted in a verdict of guilty, and a sentence of imprisonment for a year with a small fine.

Wholesale arrests were made by the police, and many of the accused were imprisoned or exiled to distant provinces, some by the regular tribunals, and others by so-called " administrative procedure " without a formal trial.

The last two of these engines broke down under trial, but the Rocket fulfilled the conditions and won the prize.

The best proportions are found by trial in all cases.

She urged that both should be brought to trial under the new statute of succession passed in 1 534, which declared her own children the lawful heirs to the throne.

Her father, who was excused attendance, had, however, been present at the trial of the other offenders, and had there declared his conviction of his daughter's guilt.

Again, the appeal to " God's judgment " in the trial by battle in Lohengrin is a subject of which no earlier librettist could have made more than a plausible mess - which is the best that can be said for the music as music. But as dramatist Wagner compels our respect for the power that without gloss or apology brings before us the king, a model of royal fair-mindedness and good-nature, acquiescing in Telramund's monstrous claim to accuse Elsa without evidence, simply because it is a hard and self-evident fact that the persons of the drama live in an age in which such claims seemed reasonable.

In the early periods of the history of other countries this seems to have been the case even where the dog was esteemed and valued, and had become the companion, the friend and the defender of man and his home; and in the and century of the Christian era Arrian wrote that "there is as much difference between a fair trial of speed in a good run, and ensnaring a poor animal without an effort, as between the secret piratical assaults of robbers at sea and the victorious naval engagements of the Athenians at Artemisium and at Salamis."

The baron Cerro Azul was shot down without trial; Marshal de Gama Eza, an old imperial soldier of eighty years of age, was murdered in cold blood, and numerous executions of men of lesser note took place, among these being two Frenchmen for whose death the Brazilian government was subsequently called upon to pay heavy compensation.

Elected to the Convention, he sat in the centre, "le Marais," voting in the trial of Louis XVI.

He made no attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies, and this, together with the way in which he reported the trial and death of Louis XVI., brought him in peril of his life; to avoid this danger he enlisted in the army, but after Thermidor he returned to Paris and to his newspaper work.

In 1859 he was tried on a charge of murder, having shot Philip Barton Key, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whom Sickles had discovered to have a liaison with his wife; but was acquitted after a dramatic trial lasting twenty days.

For a given jet tube there is _ a position of maximum efficiency easily obtained by trial.