How to Use attorney general in a Sentence

attorney general

noun
  • However, the attorney general's office announced last month that Miller had agreed to settle his suit.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Garland has said the review would look at protocols put in place by Trump’s attorney general, William Barr.
    Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Instead, they would be submitted for approval to the attorney general’s office, never known for its cybernetic genius.
    Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But the charges brought by the New York attorney general are broader in scope.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The attorney general's office will then present its case to the grand jury, which will meet for up to two weeks.
    Amanda Garrett, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The state attorney general's office said in a statement that three men, three women, and a male child were killed.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Three of the complaints were from out of state and the other did not contain an address, the attorney general's office added.
    Mickey Doyle, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Step 2 is to send it to the state attorney general for a non-binding legal opinion.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
  • The former president is enraged by the fraud charges and furious with both the judge and the attorney general.
    Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Almost all the attorneys general in this case are Democrats.
    The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The entire recording has already been turned over to the FBI and the Oklahoma attorney general’s office, the law firm has said.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Biden’s campaign at the time said it had been referred to the attorney general, and slammed the call as disinformation.
    David Wright, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The attorney general's office is reviewing whether to try the three suspects as adults, Woods said.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But the attorney general filed a brief with the Supreme Court to request that Mr. Glossip’s sentence be vacated so that the case can be retried.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Would the new law be used to fire the attorney general, currently overseeing the trial?
    Tara John, CNN, 27 July 2023
  • At the end of the meeting, the full council voted 5-3 to reappoint Halpern and also to ask the state attorney general to weigh in on any potential conflict.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • But the New York attorney general, Letitia James, whose office is bringing the case, was sitting in the front row of the spectators’ section.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The city is now suing the attorney general’s office in an attempt to keep the policy under wraps.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Nessel is the first state attorney general to issue charges in the fake elector cases.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 18 July 2023
  • All eight of the employees were fired or resigned from the attorney general’s office.
    James Barragan, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And if the value drops below $175 million, the bond is no longer secured, according to the attorney general.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The charges were filed in four counties and will be prosecuted by the state attorney general’s office.
    Holly Ramer, Fortune, 24 May 2024
  • Last year, the unit worked with the state attorney general to sue Huntington Beach for failing to develop a housing plan.
    Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • So there would be no sugarcoating it, not for the attorney general.
    Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Trump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to a New York attorney general court filing.
    CBS News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But in 2014, as the council debated whether to repeal the measure, the attorney general’s office cited due process concerns with the law.
    Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The state’s attorney general’s office has since linked robocalls to two companies based in Texas.
    Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • All three bodies had a gunshot wound to the head, Reuters reported, citing a source from the attorney general's office.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 10 May 2024
  • The officers ran out of the room to look for a fire extinguisher, according to a statement from the attorney general’s office.
    Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Advertisement The rule goes against the advice of the state attorney general’s office, the secretary of state’s office and an association of county election officials.
    Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024

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