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  • Judge, what she says today will be sworn testimony, and it will become a part of the record in this case.†   (source)
    testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
  • The remainder of the trial consisted of the testimony of eleven witnesses—four for Mason and seven for Clyde.   (source)
    testimony = statements that serve as evidence
  • Let me now advert ... to what was peculiar in that testimony.   (source)
    testimony = a statement at a trial or hearing
  • Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.   (source)
    testimonies = something that serves as evidence
  • Mother added her testimony in low, reverent whispers.†   (source)
  • Though the trial testimony seemed to raise enormous doubt as to his guilt, Sasaki was convicted and ultimately sentenced to six years of hard labor.†   (source)
  • The pictures of the motel room door, going in, coming out; the fake signatures in the register; the testimony of the owner, who'd welcomed the cash.†   (source)
  • Ignatov: Alexander Ilyich Rostov, taking into full account your own testimony, we can only assume that the clear-eyed spirit who wrote the poem Where Is It Now?†   (source)
  • He stood a head taller than Peter, and his broad shoulders bore testimony to years of backbreaking labor.†   (source)
  • Despite all the unanswered questions, the story of Cassie's life is testimony that Misty indeed sees more than a glimmer of hope in the devastating loss of her daughter.†   (source)
  • Leaves not a single descendant, only scattered, partial testimony, His complete works doodles in the dirt?†   (source)
  • Walter thought the testimony was so nonsensical he couldn't believe that people were taking it seriously.†   (source)
  • The Vatican is made up of deeply pious men who truly believe these contrary documents could only be false testimony.†   (source)
  • "A testimony to endurance" is what she called it.†   (source)
  • The judge is going to rule on a motion that King's lawyer made to suppress Cruz's testimony, and a few other things.†   (source)
  • Do you have anything to add to your testimony before we pronounce judgment?†   (source)
  • In addition to the gunshot-residue problem, Seiler was becoming concerned about Williams's testimony.†   (source)
  • I have to ask about something else that confused me during your testimony.†   (source)
  • Jordan thought of the testimony Michael Beach had given, about how it looked when the life left a person's face.†   (source)
  • She did not report this to mock Owen, and—as a testimony to my cousins' basically decent natures—the news was not greeted with their usual rowdiness, which I associated with Sawyer Depot as firmly as various forms of skiing and collision.†   (source)
  • ...called Help with testimonies from some of Mississippi's very own housekeepers—†   (source)
  • Here and there a loop stuck out, maybe big enough to stick your pinky finger through, pitiful testimony to the challengers who had tried and failed.†   (source)
  • That he was living testimony of someone who should have run.†   (source)
  • By clinging tightly to what she believed she knew, narrowing her thoughts, reiterating her testimony, she was able to keep from mind the damage she only dimly sensed she was doing.†   (source)
  • "We are obliged to listen to the testimony, Matthew," said Captain Talcott reasonably.†   (source)
  • The twins could swim like seals and, supervised by Chacko, had crossed the river several times, returning panting and cross-eyed from the effort, with a stone, a twig or a leaf from the Other Side as testimony to their feat.†   (source)
  • So it is not surprising to find that so many accusations against people are in the handwriting of Thomas Putnam, or that his name is so often found as a witness corroborating the supernatural testimony, or that his daughter led the crying-out at the most opportune junctures of the trials, especially when—But we'll speak of that when we come to it.†   (source)
  • He had been deported quickly, before local officials could take his testimony.†   (source)
  • The bikers got on the stand and flubbed their testimony: There was one car — there were two cars; Mexicans were involved — there were no Mexicans.†   (source)
  • GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation.†   (source)
  • Her marrow was tired and it was a testimony to the heart that fed it that it took eight years to meet finally the color she was hankering after.†   (source)
  • As a member of the minority who still called themselves Palestinians, he and his family had lived in the slums of Tharsis, human testimony to the bitter legacy of the terminally dispossessed.†   (source)
  • Tobias's testimony is irrefutable this way.†   (source)
  • For Adela, the horror of her cave experience and its booming echo ride roughshod over her soul until she recants her testimony against Aziz during his trial.†   (source)
  • People still wore inherited tokens and memorials, testimony to the social connections and values of their ancestors generations back.†   (source)
  • By the time the preacher took the third testimony from an old lady who swore Jesus had saved her rosebushes from Japanese beetles or her quilting hand from arthritis, I was zoning out.†   (source)
  • Davis's testimony carried with it the unstated accusation that Burnham and Baker had inflated the amount of money needed to complete the fair.†   (source)
  • He failed to see why anyone would need more bluster and testimony about God's Plan than what he found, for example, within the fine-veined world of an eyeball.†   (source)
  • She said she hated putting the children through this, but their testimony was essential.†   (source)
  • ECS wouldn't accept kids unless both parents gave testimony of their experience of being Born Again—and the stories better be good.†   (source)
  • The broad square of the pizza box, bearing the CosaNostra logo, is mute testimony.†   (source)
  • Their testimony is very important, because they were the only members of the family who lived completely removed from the three-legged table, protected from magic and spiritualism by their rigid English boarding school.†   (source)
  • The place is a living, breathing testimony to that Roman strategist who first told the world, "Let him who desires peace prepare for war" (that's translated from the Latin Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet helium-Flavius Vegetius Renatus, fourth century).†   (source)
  • Under Sharia law, which applied to domestic and inheritance matters, the testimony of two women carried the weight of that from a single man.†   (source)
  • It may seem strange, but it is a testimony to the security we felt in our home—I was an adult before I discovered where Mother went when she "visited relatives."†   (source)
  • More specifically, it is testimony to the power of one specific aspect of context, which is the critical role that groups play in social epidemics.†   (source)
  • Everything about him was a testimony to crudeness: his ignoble belly, his emphatic speech, his lynx's side-whiskers, his rough hands, the ring finger smothered by the opal setting.†   (source)
  • Salander claimed that the man had groped her, and her testimony was supported by witnesses.†   (source)
  • I think I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.†   (source)
  • There's a National Orphan Train Complex based in Concordia, Kansas, with a website that includes riders' testimonies and photographs and a link to FAQs.†   (source)
  • Between Lopsang's testimony, Hall's radio calls, and the fact that another ice ax found on the South Summit was Positively identified as Andy's, we can be reasonably sure he was at the South Summit with Hall on the night of May 10.†   (source)
  • In any case, Miss Kenton did not seem to mind at all confiding in me over these matters and I took this as a pleasing testimony to the strength of the close working relationship we had once had.†   (source)
  • No one disputed his account or tried to add individual testimony.†   (source)
  • Deposits of their broken bones bore testimony.†   (source)
  • As I sat in court, though, and listened to the testimonies of the witnesses and the speeches of the prosecutors and the arguments of the defense attorneys and the statements of the defendants, I became a lot less sure of myself.†   (source)
  • He claims that after his testimony before the USDA committee, the large meatpackers promptly stopped bidding on his cattle.†   (source)
  • One of Adam Brown's final wishes, written by hand on his CACO form, was that his spiritual testimony—his complete story—be told, including "my life before I met Jesus Christ and Kelley."†   (source)
  • When she is called like Habakkuk to the witness stand, her testimony is to the light that shines in the lives of the Nisei, in their desperation to prove themselves Canadian, in their tough and gentle spirit.†   (source)
  • The Koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as a man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son.†   (source)
  • She went through the house vacuuming clean carpets and dusting spotless tables—these were the testimony to her lost years.†   (source)
  • Someone whose testimony associates you and Hickock with this case.†   (source)
  • Cedric concurs, hopeful of this expert testimony about his impending sex appeal.†   (source)
  • Son, you're free to go and the court thanks you for your testimony.†   (source)
  • Without Beck's testimony, what choice did Harvey have?†   (source)
  • In testimony before Parliament, General Cornwallis would refuse to say that the Brooklyn lines could have been taken by an immediate attack, and said that at the time he never heard anyone claim they could have been.†   (source)
  • If they meant to trap her, they would need more than the engineer's testimony.†   (source)
  • If on Judgment Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf.†   (source)
  • Some brilliant manifesto about how God whispered sweet insights into my ear,higher truths that I would hold on to forever, once I'd shared them through testimony?†   (source)
  • Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him.†   (source)
  • The worst day was the testimony of the lover who spurned her, Tom Findlay.†   (source)
  • There was one last-minute reprieve of a bodyguard when a witness shouted testimony just as the vise was pinching blood.†   (source)
  • She named my brother Emanuel Chaim after the Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who buried milk cans filled with testimony in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Jewish cellist Emanuel Feuermann, who was one of the great musical prodigies of the twentieth century, and also the Jewish writer of genius Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, and her uncle Chaim, who was a joker, a real clown, made everyone laugh like crazy, and who died by the Nazis.†   (source)
  • He could only hope his testimony wouldn't lead to Mum's exile.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy charges are often brought against a person just on the strength of testimony from a "coconspirator" or, even worse, a "confidential informant," someone who has agreed to rat out others in exchange for immunity.†   (source)
  • On the grounds that your client gave false testimony concerning his whereabouts when Kathy Voskuhl was killed.†   (source)
  • Earwitness testimony in Dealey Plaza will later confirm that three shots were fired from the depository.†   (source)
  • At this point, his testimony isn't going to hold much weight.†   (source)
  • His testimony was given with simplicity and what seemed like candor, but Mtolo had gone out of his way to embellish his evidence.†   (source)
  • There'll be no courts, Doctor, no testimony.†   (source)
  • You have Celine's testimony, that's enough to bring him in.†   (source)
  • She gave testimony at 73,rion's trial, Cersei recalled suddenly.†   (source)
  • Mother's testimony made me recall when I was four and how scared I was to speak.†   (source)
  • Many offer testimony to such principles as the Golden Rule, living in the moment, the importance of love and giving.†   (source)
  • But you are warned that any testimony that you give may be used against you and that you will be subject to cross-examination.†   (source)
  • I have studied the runes carefully and listened to all the testimony given in the Council, said Brother Zachariah.†   (source)
  • But we have eyewitness testimony.†   (source)
  • Ralph gave solemn testimony.†   (source)
  • "That testimony has no credibility," he said.†   (source)
  • No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.†   (source)
  • Song remains a man, in the witness box, delivering a testimony we do not hear†   (source)
  • I had encoded my own messages, scripts, and testimonies into the blazonry of the ring.†   (source)
  • He only half listened to the fourth case and at the end of the terse testimony of the complaining witness he asked, "How much did you lose?"†   (source)
  • Living testimony of the easy expediency in which the Germans often indulged, the sisters had been spared the gas solely because of their energetic yet delicate artistry with needle and thread.†   (source)
  • At first Science ignored them, even denied their existence, despite the testimony of five thousand years.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (To RICH) Do you wish to modify your testimony?†   (source)
  • Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.†   (source)
  • "God created the world," said Lorenzo, "and it exists to give testimony.†   (source)
  • And among those many voices, and stammering with his own, John would care no longer for her testimony.†   (source)
  • Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips's had been under similar circumstances three years before.   (source)
    testimony = oral evidence (figuratively)
  • But then I remembered how my mother had called the sycamore a testimony to endurance.†   (source)
    testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
  • So you swapped sex for money, and now it's testimony for money, right, Ms.†   (source)
  • Halfway through his testimony, Quince Lundy slipped over another note.†   (source)
  • Jake would have plenty of time to coach Lettie into testimony that might appease the jury.†   (source)
  • There was no confidence that her testimony would go smoothly.†   (source)
  • True, and I'll bet he was never asked to evaluate conflicting medical testimony.†   (source)
  • The testimony was not relevant to the will contest.†   (source)
  • It was not necessary to replay such recent testimony.†   (source)
  • Her testimony was a dramatic blend of emotion, bad acting, lying, and exaggerating.†   (source)
  • How much medical testimony can a jury in this town understand?†   (source)
  • When Lester Chilcott closed the door, Judge Atlee said, "What's her testimony?"†   (source)
  • With time, though, Lanier settled her down and they plowed through their scripted testimony.†   (source)
  • Harry Rex, who'd been watching from the back row, said her testimony could not have been better.†   (source)
  • You left here after hearing some powerful testimony.†   (source)
  • They saw the faces, heard the testimony, felt the tension.†   (source)
  • The purpose of the deposition is to record the testimony of Mr. Hubbard.†   (source)
  • He said, "As expected, there will be a fair amount of medical testimony.†   (source)
  • As the first day of testimony came to a close, Pankey called it a draw.†   (source)
  • At trial, all testimony must be relevant.†   (source)
  • Well, I can tell you fellas right now I'm not going to subject the jury, or myself, to the testimony of sixty witnesses.†   (source)
  • Since she and Herschel spent so little time with their father, their testimony would not be that crucial at trial.†   (source)
  • Now, based on the testimony of Lettie Lang, and her inability to tell the truth, this witness is suddenly crucial to our case.†   (source)
  • Jake could poke and prod around the rest of his testimony, but there was no guarantee he could score again.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, she spent more time with Seth the last week of his life than anyone else, and her testimony was crucial.†   (source)
  • Lanier still had two great secrets up his sleeve— the handwritten will of Irene Pickering, and the testimony of Julina Kidd.†   (source)
  • After four straight days at the same table listening to endless and marginally useful testimony, they were almost numb with tedium.†   (source)
  • With Jake leading him through his testimony, he quickly explained to the jury what was already painfully obvious.†   (source)
  • Lawyers pay for testimony all the time.†   (source)
  • Lanier had some heavyweight testimony lined up, an expert who would say the powerful narcotic, taken in the quantities prescribed, seriously impaired Seth's judgment.†   (source)
  • Lanier knew perfectly well that the jury would be bored if not repulsed by this testimony, so he labored diligently to skip along, hitting the high points and leaving much of the code in the dust.†   (source)
  • He began by saying, "This will be the shortest closing argument in the history of this courtroom, because nothing I can say could ever be as persuasive as the testimony of Ancil Hubbard.†   (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)
  • Dump a pile of witnesses on the table two weeks before the trial, and there's no way I can possibly talk to them all and find out what their testimony might be.†   (source)
  • You will hear testimony from Mr. Quince Lundy, the gentleman sitting right here, and the court-appointed administrator of Seth Hubbard's estate, that the estate has a value of approximately $24 million.†   (source)
  • Jake knew Harry Rex would in fact miss little of the actual courtroom testimony, then he would park himself in the downstairs conference room each evening as they ate pizza and sandwiches and argued about what went wrong and what might happen the following day.†   (source)
  • I'll allow the testimony.†   (source)
  • I have testimony from Willy Widdershins, Minerva, who happened to be in the bar at the time.†   (source)
  • "But he cannot now give testimony, Cornelius," said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Your father's testimony killed one part, but who knows about the other parts?†   (source)
  • I don't know if the judge should have suppressed Sergeant Maples's testimony.†   (source)
  • Spencer Lawton announced that he had two witnesses to call in rebuttal to Williams's testimony.†   (source)
  • Q. The Commission is extremely interested in this part of your testimony, Sheriff Doyle.†   (source)
  • So I continued searching for testimony from some other source.†   (source)
  • Thereupon Amaranta lay down and made Ursula give public testimony as to her virginity.†   (source)
  • I may shut my conscience to it no more—private vengeance is working through this testimony!†   (source)
  • As a testimony to how boring this particular game was—and how very much lost it was, too—Mr.†   (source)
  • But before I could say anything, Myers blurted out a full recantation of his trial testimony.†   (source)
  • I believe the testimony was that Mr. Cruz was told that was the case.†   (source)
  • (A short recess) Q. Miss Snell, are you willing to continue your testimony at this time†   (source)
  • Did the City Clerk, who verified Mr. Evans's testimony, get a break in sentencing?†   (source)
  • Mr. Cheever, report this testimony in all exactness.†   (source)
  • We thank you for battling the elements this morning in order to give your testimony.†   (source)
  • As you're about to hear, the testimony of Ralph Myers was completely false.†   (source)
  • It contradicted his sworn testimony at the trial.†   (source)
  • T: The testimony in Washington ....A: Well, finally it was over.†   (source)
  • So Kerr's testimony might have been motivated by spite.†   (source)
  • Let me read to you from the testimony of Mr. Bobo Evans.†   (source)
  • Your purpose here is to ask questions of the witness that refer directly to her testimony.†   (source)
  • I read Mrs. Simard's testimony in the paper!†   (source)
  • DANFORTH, considers; then with dissatisfaction: Come, then, sign your testimony.†   (source)
  • But the testimony had to be given in secret.†   (source)
  • The prosecution's only evidence was the sheriff's testimony regarding George's alleged confession.†   (source)
  • He had made it through to the end of his testimony with his good name still intact.†   (source)
  • T: Did he ever tell you about his testimony, its nature?†   (source)
  • After Woodrow Ikner completed his testimony, it was deep into the afternoon.†   (source)
  • He told her about Ole Jurgensen's testimony and the long dispute over land.†   (source)
  • I would like to beg your indulgence while I review that testimony.†   (source)
  • Now Hatsue sat upright with her hands in her lap in order to give her testimony.†   (source)
  • According to her testimony, it was on the health and wellbeing of her grandchild.†   (source)
  • Something secret, something that contradicts sworn testimony.†   (source)
  • Their testimony was laughably inconsistent and completely lacking in credibility.†   (source)
  • This testimony was verified by Mr. Cruz.†   (source)
  • Put it in your paper, about that man's testimony, how all of it was unfair.†   (source)
  • He knew that such testimony would be false and had told the prosecutors that he refused to lie.†   (source)
  • The other one is poison; he has a reputation for selling testimony to the highest bidder.†   (source)
  • Have I by any chance misinterpreted your testimony?†   (source)
  • I immediately got an affidavit from Darnell stating that Hooks's testimony was a lie.†   (source)
  • I'm ruling the kid's testimony is admissible.†   (source)
  • Mr. Myers, was the testimony that you gave at Mr. McMillian's trial true?†   (source)
  • But let's look at the reliability of Mr. Evans's testimony.†   (source)
  • Some of them will begin their testimony by swearing that they are criminals.†   (source)
  • Well, you may be right, but he had a lot of help in putting together that testimony.†   (source)
  • Evidence from other doctors further confirmed this testimony.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the defense would have you believe, their testimony is somehow made false.†   (source)
  • "Without Hooks's testimony, the conviction wouldn't be valid," I said, leveling my voice.†   (source)
  • As he wipes away the tears, we hear a VO of PETROCELLI as she continues with OSVALDO's testimony.†   (source)
  • Well, let's reexamine their testimony and find out.†   (source)
  • I was going to give Bill Hooks a beach condo in Mexico if he changed his testimony against Walter?†   (source)
  • Mr. Evans, you were promised a deal for your testimony.†   (source)
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