How to Use attorney general in a Sentence

attorney general

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So there would be no sugarcoating it, not for the attorney general.
    Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The Oaxaca state attorney general’s office had first said 18 people died in the crash, then revised its count late on Friday evening.
    Mia Alberti, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Utah has the highest percentage of children per capita in the nation, at more than one in four people, the attorney general's office said.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The state’s attorney general’s office has appealed the ruling.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The Democratic attorneys general filed the case in late February on the first day that Judge Kacsmaryk could have issued a ruling.
    Pam Belluck, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Information about Sony’s notice to consumers about the breach, dated Oct. 3, was posted on the website of the Maine attorney general.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Half of the money will go to a state account, while the other half will go to an account for local governments, according to the attorney general’s office.
    Manuel Valdes, Fortune Well, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The Texas attorney general’s office didn’t respond to an email and phone call requesting comment.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • As state attorney general, Bailey is tasked with defending state law in court.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Less than a mile away, influencers of a different sort were camped outside the attorney general’s office.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Next, look up your state’s resources on where to report scams, starting with the attorney general’s office or the department of consumer affairs.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Dozens of briefs have been filed in recent days, including from the Department of Justice, members of Congress, and state attorneys general.
    Claire Rush, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The Virginia attorney general's office did not respond to a request for comment.
    Salvador Rizzo The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 3 Apr. 2024

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