How to Use bring before in a Sentence

bring before

phrasal verb
  • Instead, judges are doing their best to rule fairly, and within the boundaries of the law, on the cases that are brought before them.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • Should the issue advance out of the committees, it would be brought before the full House.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 May 2024
  • The -- this says that it's limited to the case that - that was brought before him initially.
    CBS News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Dozens of activists have been brought before the courts in recent weeks due to the traffic blockades.
    Kate Brady, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • The charges against Haslett were brought before a grand jury this week, which indicted him on 10 felonies.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
  • The county argued the issue should have been brought before the election, not after.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
  • On other claims the court ruled Trump waited too long to raise objections that could have been brought before the election.
    Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2023
  • One source added that Baldwin’s case will be brought before a grand jury in mid-November.
    Chloe Melas, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In Ohio, grand juries are held in secret, so details about why the charges were so quickly brought before the jurors and why they were ignored is not known.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 13 May 2024
  • Trump will be brought before a federal judge and may be asked to enter a plea at a formal arraignment.
    Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • But the supreme court showed little alacrity in hearing the multiple legal challenges brought before it.
    Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2024
  • This must have come as a relief to the President, ending the uncertainty about whether charges would be brought before the 2024 election.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • The matter will be brought before the commission again at next month’s meeting, scheduled for July 25.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • Leading up to the day, there had been concern about what a crowd of election deniers and conspiracists might do when their hero leader was brought before a judge.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That bill remains in committee in both the House and the Senate; that's the step between a bill being sponsored and a bill being brought before the chamber to be voted on.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • This action was the result of another rule change to allow alumni to be brought before the committee.
    Andrea Mew, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The bill, sponsored by Carter, was initially brought before the legislature in 2023.
    Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Most often, a prosecutor files charges and the defendant is brought before a magistrate court to hear them and be advised of their rights.
    Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • However, the matter was postponed, and the case wasn’t brought before the grand jury until two months later, in mid-January.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
  • The case was brought before the Supreme Court this week as the school district wanted a final answer to this ongoing debate over transgender students' rights.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In some ways, the three women brought before the House committee represent a new era of Ivy League leadership, which has long been dominated by men, most of them white.
    Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Franco must be brought before a judge within 24 hours, according to Dominican law.
    Martín Adames, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024
  • If a search was legal, the people who were arrested were brought before the Public Ministry, along with the evidence, but there were ten legal searches out of every hundred.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In 1954, he was brought before the Atomic Energy Commission and lost his security clearance at the hearing.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2023
  • The parties were brought before a judge in a Philadelphia courtroom for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday.
    Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Cogdell said Paul will be brought before a magistrate judge, likely Friday morning, after more information about the charges will be released.
    Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
  • Stinson is expected to be brought before the court Friday and served with an outstanding warrant charging him for his direct involvement in the robbery, police said.
    Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Witnesses brought before the grand jury, per the people with knowledge, have been asked about this exchange and any other mentions by Trump of any classified documents or maps or talk of Milley.
    CBS News, 2 June 2023
  • Soto was brought before a federal judge and pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
    Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Second, as to the judiciary, the basis of our justice system is for judges to decide cases brought before them and to do so fairly and impartially, based on the facts and the law, free from extraneous influences.
    Jeffrey Rupp, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024

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