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  • I've got a deposition in an hour."†   (source)
  • "When abnormal deposition of calcium salts takes place in necrotic tissues, it's known as dystrophic calcification."†   (source)
  • While some sought to write off Jordan as simply a rogue cop with an anger-management problem, months later, in the relative calm of a lawyer's office during a deposition related to the incident, he was able to articulate the frustration he and many others felt toward people like Chime who were changing the social landscape around Atlanta and who, in his view, weren't doing enough to adapt to local customs.†   (source)
  • The aide interviewed Ira on December 10 in Phoenix, and found Ira's deposition persuasive.†   (source)
  • I had a busy day ahead of me: two open cases and a deposition to deliver at district court.†   (source)
  • A weather ballon is mistaken for a flying saucer, a bear is mistaken for Bigfoot, an archaeological find is discovered to have been moved to its current location hundreds or thousands of years after its original deposition.†   (source)
  • "It's just a deposition."†   (source)
  • We won't be able to cross-examine you, or bring you into a federal court, or even have you sign a deposition.†   (source)
  • Robert had already explained that she would have to make some other statement later, a deposition or something, for the insurance people, but only when she was better.†   (source)
  • Before he actually began on you he'd have had a written deposition somewhere to be opened in the event of his death, and he'd see that you knew about it, too.†   (source)
  • Depositions.†   (source)
  • My idea of a graceful retirement does not encompass six or seven years of hearings and depositions.†   (source)
  • That you were the one who restored the Deposition for the Vatican Museums a few years ago.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Jerzy Rawicz, the Polish editor of Hoss's autobiography, himself a survivor of Auschwitz, has the wisdom to rebuke his fellow prisoners for the depositions they had made charging Hoss with beatings and torture.†   (source)
  • Don't play with that thing, or I'll shove it up your deposition.†   (source)
  • As an important military leader who had often presided at military courts, Strelnikov must have heard and read any number of confessions and depositions by condemned men.†   (source)
  • Washington had become during the trial the central point of the politically dissatisfied and swarmed with representatives of every state of the Union, demanding in a practically united voice the deposition of the President.†   (source)
  • I have their deposition here in which the Court will see they state that being busy with the prisoner's books they did not hear what was said.†   (source)
  • Now, what deposition do you have for us, Mr. Proctor?   (source)
    deposition = transcript (written copy) of answers to questions asked in preparation for a trial
  •   "Her deposition, Mr. Proctor."
      Proctor hands it to him.   (source)
  • Mary Warren, how came you to this turnabout? Has Mr. Proctor threatened you for this deposition?   (source)
    deposition = testimony answering questions in preparation for a trial
  • GILES: John, my deposition, give him mine.   (source)
    deposition = transcript (written copy) of answers to questions asked in preparation for a trial
  • Proctor starts to hand Danforth the deposition, and Hale comes up to Danforth in a trembling state.   (source)
  • PROCTOR, reaching into his jacket: She has signed a deposition, sir—   (source)
  • Hathorne takes the deposition, and walks to the window with it.   (source)
  • DANFORTH, instantly: No, no, I accept no depositions.   (source)
    depositions = transcripts (written copies) of answers to questions asked in preparation for a trial
  • This is Mr. Corey's deposition.   (source)
    deposition = transcript (written copy) of answers to questions asked in preparation for a trial
  • Your friend, Mary Warren, has given us a deposition. In which she swears that she never saw familiar spirits, apparitions, nor any manifest of the Devil.   (source)
    deposition = interview answering questions in preparation for a trial
  • This is Mary Warren's deposition.   (source)
    deposition = transcript (written copy) of answers to questions asked in preparation for a trial
  • It does not escape me that this deposition may be devised to blind us; it may well be that Mary Warren has been conquered by Satan, who sends her here to distract our sacred purpose.   (source)
    deposition = testimony consisting of answers to questions asked in preparation for a trial
  • The Marine Corps sent Ira's deposition, along with the photographs, to John and to Rene.†   (source)
  • Leave the deposition here so that I may consider it.†   (source)
  • You can't admit this deposition if I wasn't there and didn't have the chance to examine the witness.†   (source)
  • , all she'd had to do was give a deposition under oath to their lawyer.†   (source)
  • I will inform Mr. Baldwin of my decision to consider this deposition.†   (source)
  • Lucien introduced himself and said that this was a deposition and he would be asking the questions.†   (source)
  • Welcome to the mindnumbing dullness of deposition warfare.†   (source)
  • So, grudgingly, the judge consented to allow Madden's deposition to be entered into the record.†   (source)
  • Or, if he's in jail, you will certainly have time to conduct a proper deposition.†   (source)
  • The headline read: "Exclusive-Dr. Madden's Deposition.†   (source)
  • I'll withdraw it as a deposition and offer it as an affidavit.†   (source)
  • You heard the rest of it in her deposition.†   (source)
  • At this time we will watch the videotaped deposition of Ancil Hubbard.†   (source)
  • The purpose of the deposition is to record the testimony of Mr. Hubbard.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Judge, it's just a deposition, not some secret meeting.†   (source)
  • Not so in a deposition, which often turned into a prolonged fishing expedition.†   (source)
  • Lucien had visited Mr. Wolkowicz late the day before, retained him, and organized the deposition.†   (source)
  • Lettie's deposition is set for Monday and Tuesday.†   (source)
  • She was well prepared, though in a deposition it was impossible to predict what might be discussed.†   (source)
  • In her deposition she clearly stated she could not remember all the white families she'd worked for.†   (source)
  • Spending five consecutive days in deposition was a rare event, though not unheard-of.†   (source)
  • Fyfe says that he recently gave a deposition in a case in Chicago in which police officers shot and killed a young man at the end of a chase, and unlike Rodney King, he wasn't resisting arrest.†   (source)
  • And Alex Conklin — according to his deposition as well as his own numerous psychiatric sessions with Mo Panov and what vague memories David could provide — had been a close friend of Foreign Service Officer Webb and his Thai wife and their children in Cambodia a lifetime ago.†   (source)
  • Judson decided to let Madden swear out a deposition in chambers, but only after Holabird paid him a visit.†   (source)
  • Until now, Holabird had not minded Ruiz's and Montes's absence, preferring instead to work from the Spaniards' sworn deposition.†   (source)
  • Mr. Janes, I'd like you to hold off on Dr. Madden's request for a copy of his deposition until I have ruled whether his testimony is admissible in court.†   (source)
  • After the deposition, Madden asked if the court reporter could make a copy of the deposition so that it could be presented to Queen Victoria when Madden returned to London.†   (source)
  • Her deposition kicked off at 9:00 on Thursday morning, and by then the lawyers were cranky and fed up with the case.†   (source)
  • Bad lawyers tried to trick witnesses, or pin them down, or confuse them, all in an effort to win the deposition.†   (source)
  • In her deposition, Lettie had given as many of these names as she could remember, or so she testified.†   (source)
  • It's not a proper deposition, Judge."†   (source)
  • He had prepared Ramona well for her deposition back in December and taught her the art of sandbagging.†   (source)
  • From Lettie's deposition we learned that her mother was about sixteen when she was born, out of wedlock, and that she never knew her father.†   (source)
  • The deposition was given two days ago.†   (source)
  • When we took your deposition in December, the week before Christmas, you were not so sure about your ancestry.†   (source)
  • Death by deposition continued on Wednesday as Jake took charge and quizzed Herschel Hubbard for several hours.†   (source)
  • The court reporter would take down every word, and the video camera would record the entire deposition.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, everything has to be fully disclosed and every witness has to be available for a deposition.†   (source)
  • Jake introduced Lettie to the court reporter, the other lawyers, all names and faces blurred by the sheer number, and he went into a lengthy explanation of the purposes of a deposition.†   (source)
  • And this deposition is closed.†   (source)
  • He knew that at trial there was no way Jake could rebut her testimony, so offer a few crumbs during the deposition, just enough to vaguely answer the questions, then load up the fiction for the jury.†   (source)
  • "I'm here for the deposition.†   (source)
  • As they talked, and as she began to relax, Jake could envision her deposition in the near future, in a room full of hyped-up lawyers all clamoring for the floor and the chance to grill her about what she and Mr. Hubbard did and did not do.†   (source)
  • Death by deposition.†   (source)
  • I got deposition.†   (source)
  • Deposition.†   (source)
  • (Hands deposition to FOREMAN, who examines it with much seriousness) MORE If I had really said this is it not obvious he would instantly have called these men to witness?†   (source)
  • And these were only preliminary depositions.†   (source)
  • This was news to Jake and everyone else who'd read Herschel's depositions.†   (source)
  • Forget depositions—it would take another six months.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee rustled some papers, then launched into a discussion about the remaining depositions.†   (source)
  • These depositions will be sealed until I review them.†   (source)
  • After a year of depositions, hearings, and pretrial litigation, we eventually reached a settlement with most of the defendants that would provide Walter with a few hundred thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • However, should such a trial ever take place, I reserve the right to confront my accusers, not their affidavits or depositions.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, my clients have already made depositions under oath regarding all of their activities, which were well within Spanish law.†   (source)
  • Gedney had been through this several times already with depositions and interviews to the newspapers, but still he was on his guard.†   (source)
  • Legally, the case seemed fairly straightforward to Holabird: a formal hearing, depositions for the record, and then the ship and cargo would be turned over to the Spanish consul in Boston for safe passage back to Havana and eventual prosecution of the slaves under Spanish law.†   (source)
  • "It's just depositions," Jake had said.†   (source)
  • The lawyers partied hard every night, suffered through the depositions with awful hangovers, and two of them entered rehab when the ordeal was over.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee asked Jake, "How many depositions have you taken?" lake replied, "Together, we've taken thirty depositions."†   (source)
  • They had no plans to be nice to Lettie; indeed, based on their depositions, it was safe to expect them to lie considerably.†   (source)
  • Last week we took eleven depositions in three days, all from members of the church who saw Mr. Hubbard the morning before he died.†   (source)
  • Good lawyers preferred to win at trial, and used depositions as a means to gather information that could be used to set traps later.†   (source)
  • Great lawyers skipped depositions altogether, and orchestrated beautiful ambushes in front of the jury.†   (source)
  • From their depositions, it slowly became apparent that Seth Hubbard was a neglectful father who viewed his children as little more than nuisances.†   (source)
  • Portia had gone to the attic and found dozens of old depositions that she had spent hours poring over.†   (source)
  • Five straight days of depositions.†   (source)
  • Jake had also explained that depositions drag on for days because the lawyers are being paid by the hour, or at least the ones who are asking the banal and monotonous questions.†   (source)
  • After Grand's deposition had been read out, Cottard was asked to state the exact motive of his act.†   (source)
  • She would have made her deposition, and judgment would have followed.†   (source)
  • I will read you the words of the deposition which you signed two hours later in my bungalow.†   (source)
  • No, that's not right either; 'I make a deposition and you take it.'†   (source)
  • They were listening to an important deposition.†   (source)
  • I have a friend of high condition, Who'll also add his deposition.†   (source)
  • The dying man had signed a deposition declaring Benedetto to be the assassin.†   (source)
  • "I thank you," replied I; "listen, therefore, to the deposition that I have to make.†   (source)
  • Forthwith, the district attorney proceeded with him to a local notary's office where a deposition was made, after which he called his office, and learning that Roberta's body had been brought to Bridgeburg, he drove there with as much speed as he could attain.†   (source)
  • On he came in hot haste, without a look right or left, passed within three feet of me, and in the innocence of his heart went on pelting upstairs into the harbour office to make his deposition, or report, or whatever you like to call it.†   (source)
  • "I had no idea that was in your mind," he said, and looked for support at the signed deposition, which lay before him.†   (source)
  • In the surgeon's deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon.†   (source)
  • Everyone believed the victory to have been complete, and some even spoke of Napoleon's having been captured, of his deposition, and of the choice of a new ruler for France.†   (source)
  • But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken.†   (source)
  • Yes, yes, the mortuary deposition.†   (source)
  • The servant instantly showed it to one of the others, who, without saying a word to any of the family, went to a magistrate; and, upon their deposition, Justine was apprehended.†   (source)
  • "I will recall to these gentlemen, that in the deposition taken at his bedside, the assassinated officer, while declaring that he had a vague idea when the black man accosted him that the latter might be the surly monk, added that the phantom had pressed him eagerly to go and make acquaintance with the accused; and upon his, the captain's, remarking that he had no money, he had given him the crown which the said officer paid to la Falourdel.†   (source)
  • The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after having given his deposition.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES We've but to make a deposition valid That now her husband's limbs, outstretched and pallid, At Padua rest, in consecrated soil.†   (source)
  • The first part of this deposition did not in the least interest me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself extremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.†   (source)
  • Shall I write your deposition?†   (source)
  • These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to give the lie to the prisoner's denial.†   (source)
  • "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner."†   (source)
  • The Englishman easily found the entries relative to the Abbe Faria; but it seemed that the history which the inspector had related interested him greatly, for after having perused the first documents he turned over the leaves until he reached the deposition respecting Edmond Dantes.†   (source)
  • Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to…†   (source)
  • M. Faure took down the daroga's depositions and proceeded to treat him as a madman.†   (source)
  • After dinner, if they had no visitors, Ivan Ilych sometimes read a book that was being much discussed at the time, and in the evening settled down to work, that is, read official papers, compared the depositions of witnesses, and noted paragraphs of the Code applying to them.†   (source)
  • There were only a couple of women in the dock, who were nodding to their admiring friends, while the clerk read some depositions to a couple of policemen and a man in plain clothes who leant over the table.†   (source)
  • The night was cold and still; the family had all retired to rest but Villefort, who alone remained up, and worked till five o'clock in the morning, reviewing the last interrogatories made the night before by the examining magistrates, compiling the depositions of the witnesses, and putting the finishing stroke to the deed of accusation, which was one of the most energetic and best conceived of any he had yet delivered.†   (source)
  • However, the man's examination and the depositions of the witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be finished before midnight.†   (source)
  • …foolish to go thus straight ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that he should arrive after all was over.†   (source)
  • …effects of this my oil, surnamed Oglio del Scoto; with the countless catalogue of those I have cured of the aforesaid, and many more diseases; the pattents and privileges of all the princes and commonwealths of Christendom; or but the depositions of those that appeared on my part, before the signiory of the Sanita and most learned College of Physicians; where I was authorised, upon notice taken of the admirable virtues of my medicaments, and mine own excellency in matter of rare…†   (source)
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