Sentence examples for attorney from high-quality English sources.

• Attorney General" or "Mrs.

• Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general.

• She also needs to create a power of attorney for finances.

• Only on the federal level is the system unitary, a district attorney being appointed by the U.S. attorney general’s office for each federal district (see attorney general).

• The uncertainty doesn't stop with the attorney general.

• An attorney for Easterbrook did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

• William Barr, a former Kirkland attorney, was the attorney general at the time the agreement was signed.

• Wray served as principal associate deputy attorney general under former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson.

Use attorney in a sentence.

• (Wilkinson is serving as acting attorney general until Biden's pick for attorney general, Merrick Garland, is confirmed.)

• O'Brien served at the Department of Justice as an associate deputy attorney general in Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates' office.

• Tim Visser, a trial attorney in the Justice Department's civil-rights division, has been detailed to the attorney general's office.

• During the Obama administration, he served as assistant attorney general of the civil division before becoming associate attorney general, the third-highest ranking official at the Justice Department.

• In order, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and then the US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri will be next in line.

• After Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enforce his first travel ban, he appointed Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, as acting attorney general in her place.

• The new order of succession after the AG, deputy AG, and associate AG are as follows: US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, US Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and then the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.

• They include an Arkansas attorney general running against Sarah Huckabee Sanders to be governor in 2022, a 35-year-old serving as Kentucky's first Black attorney general, and the top Texas attorney who worked with Trump's lawyers to try to get Biden's election tossed out.

attorney sentence examples

• He was appointed as US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia in the Obama administration, but he went on to serve in a variety of high-ranking, acting roles under Mr Trump, including acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general and head of the justice department’s national security division.

• After news of the FBI's raids broke Wednesday, Giuliani's attorney described them as "legal thuggery," adding, "Why would you do this to anyone, let alone someone who was the associate attorney general, United States attorney, the mayor of New York City and the personal lawyer to the 45th president of the United States?"

• James Comey’s federal employment included service as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (1987–93) and for the Eastern District of Virginia (1996–2001), as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (2002–03), as deputy attorney general (2003–05), and as director of the FBI (2013–17).

• Biden will nominate the District of Columbia Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, former Obama administration Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general, and the civil-rights attorneys Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke as the associate attorney general and the leader of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, respectively.