(n.) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly the affidavit against Ferdaus paints a compelling picture of a man hellbent on waging jihad in America and eager to take the guns and explosives eventually supplied to him by the undercover FBI agents.
(2) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(3) Kennedy fiercely denied it, and Sorensen signed an affidavit confirming Kennedy's story that the book was all his own work.
(4) He told the court in an affidavit that the withdrawal of care by the department, which has rated him 100% permanently disabled and thus eligible for all medical treatment under its auspices, has meant he now has to travel 130 miles from his home to see a doctor for pain relief.
(5) Each day, he waived his right to a lawyer and his right to remain silent every day in writing, the affidavit states.
(6) Over the next year he filled a conference room at the Johns Creek station with boxes of police reports, victim affidavits, and audio recordings.
(7) In an affidavit , Dr Larry Sasich told the court that Georgia's likely use of a compounding pharmacist to concoct pentobarbital for the Hill execution presented the prisoner with substantial risk that the drugs would not work effectively.
(8) In a sworn affidavit accompanying the motion, Dershowitz states that Roberts’s lawyers “levelled totally false and outrageous charges against me that have been damaged around the world and threaten to damage my reputation irrevocably”.
(9) Presented as evidence to support his claim are affidavits from experts in cognitive science, psychology and behavioral biology, as well as Wise’s own rich knowledge of philosophical arguments and studies on chimpanzees.
(10) In his affidavit, Pasha said that he had "seen enough corroborative material" to "prove" the allegations against the Washington ambassador, who was forced to resign over the issue.
(11) In her sworn affidavit, Roberts said: “I have seen Buckingham Palace’s recent ‘emphatic’ denial that Prince Andrew had sexual contact with me.
(12) From long lines and dramatic understaffing to longtime voters being forced to cast affidavit ballots and thousands of registered New Yorkers being dropped from the rolls, what’s happening today is a disgrace.
(13) "It was my observation that he was in pain," Neal Dupree, a lawyer for Diaz and a witness to the execution, wrote in an affidavit.
(14) "Ferdaus indicated that he could write instructions or make a video on how to construct the cell phone detonation devices," the affidavit said.
(15) The court will hear – either in person at a secret session of the trial, or in an affidavit – from an anonymous witness called only "John Doe", who is believed to be one of the 22 US Navy Seals who killed Bin Laden in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011.
(16) One reads: “If you don’t withdraw your affidavits against us in trial.
(17) In October that year, the government filed an affidavit in the Indian supreme court, arguing that commercial surrogacy on the part of foreigners invited the exploitation of poor women.
(18) It doesn’t feel at all democratic to me.” By mid-afternoon on polling day, more than a dozen voters had contacted the Guardian to report varying degrees of frustration with the process, many of whom said they were required to cast provisional votes by affidavit while they waited to have their names checked for eligibility.
(19) In a statement to the Guardian through his lawyer, Wright said he refuted some claims made in the affidavit and had not joined the group until 2016, denied he hated Muslims and argued that he was entitled to engage in “survivalist activities and ‘prepping’” for when “shit hits the fan”.
(20) Marquez also purchased explosives at this time – “in furtherance of his and Farook’s plans to create bombs and commit mass killings,” according to the affidavit.
Fidelity
Definition:
(n.) Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
(n.) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
(n.) Adherence to the marriage contract.
(n.) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
Example Sentences:
(1) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
(2) Procaryotic DNA polymerases contain an associated 3'----5' exonuclease activity which provides a proofreading function and contributes substantially to replication fidelity.
(3) In the current study, left ventricular geometry, loading conditions, and contractile state were assessed in 13 patients with nonischemic DCM with the use of simultaneous high-fidelity pressure measurements and echocardiographic recordings.
(4) "He was modelling himself at that time in Ethiopia on Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
(5) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(6) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(7) The effect of metal activators on the fidelity of DNA synthesis has been examined.
(8) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
(9) The fidelity of base-matching is better in double-stranded transcripts synthesized on rat liver chromatin by homologous polymerase than in those synthesized on it by a bacterial polymerase, or in those synthesized by either of the two polymerases on pure DNA.
(10) Investors include Threadneedle, Fidelity, Blackrock and Standard Life.
(11) Rob Fisher, head of UK personal investments at Fidelity, thinks tax considerations alone make it worthwhile using the full limit.
(12) If you want full flexibility, you will probably have to switch your pension savings to a provider such as Hargreaves Lansdown, Fidelity or Aegon Retiready and manage it from their “platform”.
(13) Replication fidelity is shown to decrease roughly exponentially, and catalytic efficiency is shown to increase with diminishing returns, with the number of letters for a fixed genome length; hence their product, i.e.
(14) In Escherichia coli the dnaQ+ gene, which encodes epsilon, a fidelity subunit of DNA polymerase III, and the rnh+ gene, which encodes RNase H, share a promoter region but are transcribed in opposite directions.
(15) Unsurprisingly, Romney is polling ahead of his rival among Cuban Americans in Miami, where exiles have traditionally supported successive Republican candidates for their hardline stance against the communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
(16) This indicates that elimination from the nucleotide pool of the oxidized form of guanine nucleotide is important for the high fidelity of DNA synthesis.
(17) Members of each subgroup have similar although not identical restriction maps and show relatively high but varying fidelities of DNA cross reassociation between members.
(18) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(19) The high fidelity DNA synthesis in vitro by Thermococcus litoralis DNA polymerase provides good possibilities for maintaining the genetic information of original target DNA sequences intact in the DNA amplification applications.
(20) In Fidel's mind, he was probably acting in self-defence."