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词汇 impeachment
释义 impeachment
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪmˈpiːtʃ.mənt/ us /ɪmˈpiːtʃ.mənt/
the act of making a formal statement that a public official might be guilty of a serious offence in connection with his or her job, especially in the US: (尤指美国的)弹劾
The federal judge faces impeachment.这名联邦法官面临弹劾。
The investigation expanded and ultimately led to impeachment. 调查范围扩大,最终导致弹劾。
Ohio lawmakers presided over several impeachments during the state's infancy.俄亥俄州的立法者在该州成立初期主导进行了几次弹劾。
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The minister is currently under threat of impeachment.
He is still hugely popular, despite an impeachment scandal.
The governor resigned amid a corruption investigation and the threat of impeachment.
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impeachment | Business English


impeachment
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪmˈpiːtʃmənt/us
LAW, GOVERNMENT
especially in the US, the action of formally accusing a public official of a serious offence in connection with their job:
call for/face impeachmentA resolution to be filed in the House of Representatives will call for his impeachment.

Examples of impeachment


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Among the variables the authors consider are investigatory committees, votes of confidence regarding ministers, rules regarding questioning the executive and soliciting documents, censure and impeachment.
Popular satisfaction with the state of the economy and of foreign policy shored up public opinion against impeachment.
The book provides context for the impeachment debates by citing earlier cultural and political clashes.
Manipulation of footing occurs in specific sequential environments to manage the delicate tasks of negotiating impeachment work.
Prior to this, the magistrates could only be removed from office through an impeachment process.
It reveals the way in which sequential positioning naturalizes an evaluative matrix to manage the interactional task of negotiating impeachment work.
More to the point, he posed an enormous threat to those who had risked the winner-take-all gamble of impeachment in the parliament of 1626.
On the one hand, a justice facing, for example, impeachment might choose to leave office rather than be subjected to such proceedings.
In spite of the legislature's incentive to monitor the president, his fixed term in office gives him considerable leeway subject only to the threat of impeachment.
As we will see next, she mobilizes this cultural knowledge of bodily difference to project an interpretive background for her for thcoming impeachment of the defendant.
Apart from the process of impeachment, the congress could exercise some form of control over the executive by calling in person cabinet ministers to inform about particular areas of policy.
I think that the recent history of impeachment processes there is not a very good model for us to follow here.
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There are many reasons why the question of impeachment is relevant.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This is the only opportunity we get of defending its administration from impeachment made outside.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Perhaps there could be some kind of impeachment procedure leading to the removal of the mayor.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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