- (of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
- to be responsible for
- responsibility; duty; liability
- (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
- rule of law; to rule by law
- 精神 jīng shén: 精神 jing1 shen2: spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist; CL:個|个[ge4]精神 jīng shen: 精神 jing1 shen5: vigor; vitality; spirited; good-looking
- senate; upper chamber (of legislative assembly)
- (literary) to give; to accord; to render
- to answer; to reply; Reply to: (in email header)
- ball (made of rubber, leather etc)
- to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
- to evade responsibility; to shirk
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- to reply (to an accusation); to defend one's dissertation
- daily newspaper
- official (government-operated) newspaper
- 赖 Lài: 赖 Lai4: surname Lai; (Tw) (coll.) LINE messaging app赖 lài: 赖 lai4: to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on
- law; CL:條|条[tiao2], 套[tao4], 個|个[ge4]
- leak; hole; gap; loophole
- exactly; just; precisely; (loanword) cha-cha; cha-cha-cha (dance)
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
- (Tw) judges and prosecutors
- 重点 zhòng diǎn: 重点 zhong4 dian3: important point; main point; focus; key (project etc); to focus on; to put the emphasis on重点 chóng diǎn: 重点 chong2 dian3: to recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate
- to state; to declare; statement; declaration; CL:項|项[xiang4],份[fen4]
- prospects; future outlook; journey
- to speak in defense of; to argue in favor of; to defend; to plead
- charges or facts about a crime; the nature of the offense
- inconvenient; difficult for some reason; to find sth embarrassing
- to carry out a (death) sentence; execution
- to gather; to assemble; (math.) set
- high-level; higher (animals, education etc); advanced (math etc)
- safe; secure; safety; security
- to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run
- senator
- repeatedly
- to question closely; to investigate in detail; to examine minutely; to get to the heart of the matter
- lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom); fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position; to not have a leg to stand on
- procedure; CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4]; formalities
- mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake; CL:個|个[ge4]
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- to endorse; to support
- Republican Party