1 The lawyers face permanent disbarment over the charges.

2 Discipline can range from private reproval to disbarment, Towery said.

3 Indeed, the backhanded way the government engineered the disbarment of the 53 rights-defending lawyers can be read as an admission that nothing they had engaged in was wrong.

4 We have been persistently opposed to the arms race and in favor of real disbarment and arms control. We stand for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons.

5 Public interest law firms that took on sensitive cases also continued to face harassment, disbarment of legal staff, and closure.