Sorokin

[suh-roh-kin, saw-, suh-raw-kyin]

noun

1. Pitirim Alexandrovitch 1889–1968, U.S. sociologist, born in Russia.

Example Sentences

“This means that both capital and operating costs to bring this resource out of the ground will grow,” Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin said at a conference last year.

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"In plain terms, prosecutors want to see Diddy defined by the worst-case math, while the defence wants the judge to cut through it and impose something far lighter," said Todd Spodek, a New York attorney who once represented fake heiress Anna Sorokin.

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Alawieh’s lawyers asked a court to intervene, and Judge Leo Theodore Sorokin promptly barred her deportation in an order signed Friday.

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Alawieh’s lawyers accused the government of “willfully” disobeying the court’s order, prompting Sorokin to demand an explanation.

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The official explanation, then, is that the administration did not defy Sorokin’s order, but rather moved too fast for the judicial process to stop the deportation.

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