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Definition of death warrant in English: death warrantnoun An official order for the execution of a condemned person. 死刑执行令 he signed the king's death warrant in 1649 figurative he signed his own death warrant by being seen as a peacemaker Example sentencesExamples - Even now she delayed signing the death warrant, and then disclaimed responsibility for the execution of Mary at Fotheringhay.
- But rumours soon surfaced that she had signed her own death warrant when she married the man she loved, instead of the man who was chosen for her by her adoptive family.
- Yet Elizabeth keeps her alive for twenty years, and even after she has been condemned to death, the death warrant has to be got out of the Queen by trickery.
- Tenants signed the death warrant for the decaying four-storey block of flats after voting in favour of relocating.
- Ridge signed a second death warrant for December 2, 1999, but Judge Yohn granted a stay of execution pending the disposition of the appeal.
- What kind of a man signs a death warrant on the basis of ‘the most cursory briefings’?
- When your ethnic identity could be a death warrant, would you still preserve it?
- After a long deliberation, Ryan himself signed the death warrant for the murderer prosecutors called monstrous.
- He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant.
- To close the account is equivalent to signing a death warrant for the customer's business.
- In short, Higham asserts Lincoln signed his own death warrant by permitting Union merchants to trade with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
- The executioner hugs her with one arm, like a dancing-master, to keep her upright, and adjusts the knot while an official reads the death warrant.
- His most famous opponent in this war was Oliver Cromwell - one of the men who signed the death warrant of Charles.
- Two days later, prison authorities read a death warrant to Smith, condemned last year for multiple murders committed in 2001.
- And then Florida's governor signed her death warrant, which led to her execution today.
- In 1649, ‘citizens’ signed the death warrant of Charles I who was executed at Whitehall in January of that year.
- When you keep quiet you are signing your own death warrant.
- In just over a year's time, his political death warrant will be signed by the American people.
- She had made her decision, and she would stand by it; but all the same she could not shake the feeling that she was signing her own death warrant with every step she took.
- Ann was a descendant of a Norman Baronet who had helped sign the death warrant of Charles I of England in 1660.
Synonyms end, beginning of the end, presage of the end, death knell
Definition of death warrant in US English: death warrantnounˈdɛθ ˈˌwɔrənt An official order for the execution of a condemned person. 死刑执行令 figurative in making his announcement he has signed his political death warrant Example sentencesExamples - Ann was a descendant of a Norman Baronet who had helped sign the death warrant of Charles I of England in 1660.
- He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant.
- When your ethnic identity could be a death warrant, would you still preserve it?
- To close the account is equivalent to signing a death warrant for the customer's business.
- The executioner hugs her with one arm, like a dancing-master, to keep her upright, and adjusts the knot while an official reads the death warrant.
- And then Florida's governor signed her death warrant, which led to her execution today.
- When you keep quiet you are signing your own death warrant.
- His most famous opponent in this war was Oliver Cromwell - one of the men who signed the death warrant of Charles.
- In 1649, ‘citizens’ signed the death warrant of Charles I who was executed at Whitehall in January of that year.
- But rumours soon surfaced that she had signed her own death warrant when she married the man she loved, instead of the man who was chosen for her by her adoptive family.
- Even now she delayed signing the death warrant, and then disclaimed responsibility for the execution of Mary at Fotheringhay.
- After a long deliberation, Ryan himself signed the death warrant for the murderer prosecutors called monstrous.
- Two days later, prison authorities read a death warrant to Smith, condemned last year for multiple murders committed in 2001.
- In just over a year's time, his political death warrant will be signed by the American people.
- Yet Elizabeth keeps her alive for twenty years, and even after she has been condemned to death, the death warrant has to be got out of the Queen by trickery.
- Ridge signed a second death warrant for December 2, 1999, but Judge Yohn granted a stay of execution pending the disposition of the appeal.
- What kind of a man signs a death warrant on the basis of ‘the most cursory briefings’?
- In short, Higham asserts Lincoln signed his own death warrant by permitting Union merchants to trade with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
- She had made her decision, and she would stand by it; but all the same she could not shake the feeling that she was signing her own death warrant with every step she took.
- Tenants signed the death warrant for the decaying four-storey block of flats after voting in favour of relocating.
Synonyms end, beginning of the end, presage of the end, death knell
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