to bring to justice
75
4.0
- phrasal verb
- Formal
:
llevar ante la justicia
- We will do what we must to bring these criminals to justice.
- bring criminals to justice
- bring enemies to justice
And and so I don't think his killers get brought to justice.
- And and so I don't think his killers get brought to justice.
- It was easy decision because some of me close friends have been killed and I was helping to basically bring to justice the people who killed them.
- I like it if the person like was caught and brought to justice.
- And she was a Tutsi, and we're trying to bring a Tutsi to justice, and she doesn't quite like that.
- So obviously there was a failure on a lot of people's paw to to bring him to justice in in his life.
- If you remove the militias from the equation in Iraq, you will have parties very easily to to remove or to bring to justice.
Examples
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I will do everything in my power to co-operate with the authorities and to bring these criminals to justice.
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They want these criminals brought to justice as badly as we do.
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No matter how long it takes... America will find you and we will bring you to justice.
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Much of its original leadership has been brought to justice in one way or another.
Academic text (2009) -
My client and I hope he is brought to justice in the near future.
Fiction book (2001) -
I just want to help bring these guys to justice.
Fiction book (2001) -
You can bet when I do, I'll bring him to justice.
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All that was left was to see that her murderer was brought to justice.
Fiction book (2000) -
And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.
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The police worked tirelessly to bring to justice the criminals responsible for the robbery.
Synonyms
354
6.1
Officially take someone to court to try to prove they broke the law
Antonyms
How Accountable
- Formal
75
4.0
- Formal
921
4.0
354
6.1
- Formal
933
4.2
∞
2.8
686
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally derived: 'bring' (cause to come/deliver) + 'justice' (the legal system/fairness) yields the idea of causing someone to face the legal system. This follows a common English pattern ('bring someone to X') and has direct equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words would likely infer the legal/punitive sense.
Etymology
Bring to justice paints a clear image: police or guards would bring a suspect before a judge to receive justice. That's why it means 'to find and punish someone who committed a crime'.