The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.
直到20世纪中期,该系统还没有普遍地将女性纳入陪审团。
Juries sympathetic to the victims of machines will punish entrepreneurs with company-crushing penalties and damages.
同情机器受害者的陪审团将会用足以摧毁公司的罚金和赔偿金来惩治企业家。
This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.
他们为这种做法辩解,声称家里需要女性;于是,陪审团没有女性代表的状况持续了整个20世纪60年代。
Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898, it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty.
虽然早在1898年,已有妇女在犹他州担任州陪审团,但直到20世纪40年代,大多数州才允许妇女担任陪审员。
In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor vs Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level.
在具有里程碑意义的1975年泰勒诉路易斯安那州的判决中,最高法院将陪审团代表社区所有人意志的要求扩大到州一级。
Do you have any relatives in juries at the moment?
现在陪审团里有你的亲戚吗?
The thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers' misfortunes.
自20世纪80年代初以来,人们就一直这么想,当时陪审团开始认为更多的公司应该为其客户的不幸承担责任。
so that they were unfit to serve on juries.
他们不配担当陪审团。
Britain is seeking to restrict juries even further.
英国正试图在更大的范围内限制陪审团。
Such arguments have proved persuasive with juries.
以上论点已证明能够令陪审团信服。
Juries nearly always render verdicts with which I agree.
陪审团几乎总是作出我赞同的裁决。
But, equally unsurprisingly, juries are sometimes willing to go along with it.
但是,同样令人不感到意外的是,陪审团有时却愿意赞同这种必要性。
Opponents of capital punishment tend to respond by saying that juries, being human, err.
反对死刑的人常回应说,陪审团是人,就一定会犯错误。
Juries are renowned, after all, for what lawyers must see as infuriating unpredictability.
毕竟,陪审团们具有出了名的不可预测性,这一让律师们非常恼火的特征。
Other plants will have great years, some may even have no juries at all, measured injuries.
其它工厂将会有丰收的年份,有些甚至没有上报的伤情。
In schools, for instance, pupils should be able to see teachers' faces, as should judges and juries in court.
比如说,在学校里,学生应该能够看到老师的脸,在法庭上,犯人也应该能看到法官和陪审团成员的脸。
In America, firms often settle intellectual-property cases out of court for fear of enormous awards by juries.
在美国,公司们因为害怕陪审团判决的巨大赔偿裁定额经常在庭外和解知识产权案件。
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grand jury
[法]大陪审团
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jury trial
陪审团审案
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trial by jury
陪审审判
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judge and jury
法官与陪审团
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jury duty
在陪审团作陪审员时间;陪审员的义务