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• Judicial authority.

  ‘Law professor Paul Laband argued in 1897 that women were too weak ‘to wield the sword of justice.’’

  More example sentences

  • ‘But the sword of justice should not be used to force me to compensate those with less talent.’
  • ‘Justice attempts to settle matters to the highest truth, to separate truth from falsehood (the function of the sword of justice).’
  • ‘Our nation's hand, it was said, would wield the sword of justice.’