Bencher in A Sentence

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    A search through the internet quickly reveals that Lord Stokes sits as a cross bencher in the House of Lords.

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    A specialist in family and public law, she became a bencher in 1997.

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    Any person of sufficient distinction may be elected an honorary bencher, despite not being a member of the Inn or even a lawyer.

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    He left Oxford without taking a degree in 1609, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1616, becoming a bencher in 1633.

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    He soon acquired a large practice at the bar in London, took silk in 1908, and became a bencher of his Inn.

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    He was called to the bar in 1891, and became head of the law firm of Rowell, Reid, Wood & Wright, Toronto; ultimately being made bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 191 1.

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    In 1763 he became king's counsel and bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and for a short time went the northern circuits, but was more successful in obtaining business in the Court of Chancery.

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    In 1817 he became a bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

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    In 1850 he was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple.

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    Mr Hall was a bencher of the Inner Temple, and was alive at the time of the action.

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    The back bencher argued the two sets of papers were in fact from the same period.

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    The Editor of the Spectator's career as a front bencher has been brilliant, brief and brusque.