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Advocate depute William Frain Bell KC told the men's trial: "The tax collectors in this case were a group of individuals who never had any intention of parting with the VAT."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Advocate depute Chris McKenna previously told the court that the 15-year-old girl had spent the evening at a friend's home before walking along Lothian Road to a bus stop.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

The advocate depute asked: "I am asking you as you stand here on oath if you remember were there any grievances on the Edradynate between Brian and David?"

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

The advocate depute referred back to the statement she made in May 2024.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Kitty, my dear," said Sir John, turning to Kitty Sharston, "you have been here before and I depute to you the task of doing the honors.

From A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade

Thirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2023

Under the terms of the latest offer, pay rises would be capped for those earning above £60,000 - principally some heads and deputes.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022

The deputes start moving toward him and he starts walking at them again.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

At about 10:40 p.m., deputes in Nash County tried to pull the vehicle over, Stone said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

He must be able to feel that the thing which he deputes to each will be as surely and as faithfully done as though done by his own hand.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

"But media teams deputed inside Jinnah Convention Centre do not know what's happening outside."

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

When he failed to do so, his cousin Amy Lowell took on the task: “I like to imagine that the task has been deputed to me in his stead.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

The day after his death, she was deputed to deliver an emotional speech to the world's press, who had gathered at the quayside.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021

He was usually deputed to pick up the opposing playmaker and the coach Bobby Haarms described him as being "like a kamikaze pilot" as he pursued him, often deep into opposition territory.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

He was, however, soon liberated, took his seat in the parliament of 1659-1660, and was one of the twelve members deputed to carry the message of the Commons to Charles II. at the Hague.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."

From Time Magazine Archive

This resulted in Dost Mahomed sending his son and heir-apparent, Sardar Ghulam Haidar Khan, to Peshawar, and deputing him to act as his Plenipotentiary in the negotiations.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The practice of deputing certain vessels to art as "parent ships" to a covey of waterplanes has proved as successful in practice, as in theory.

From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

John Massingbird possessed a ready hand at packing and arranging; and therefore he preferred doing it himself to deputing it to others.

From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood

"Don't be deputing people to go on reckless errands!" she vociferated.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly