(v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
(v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
(v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
(v. i.) To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.
(v. i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(3) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
(4) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
(5) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(6) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(7) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(8) They’re staying home,” Cruz declared in his speech.
(9) "We all want this information to be available now, not to emerge in a fragmented way, as and when individual declarations are made," he said.
(10) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
(11) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(12) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(13) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(14) Having given my consent to Pavid's love declaration, I went home and properly lost my mind.
(15) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(16) In my party there are no red lines, only firm convictions,” he declared.
(17) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(18) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
(19) P eople in this country have had enough of experts,” declared Michael Gove last week .
(20) The residents in this zone are aware of the problem and a great proportion of them declare to be damaged in a greater or smaller magnitude.
Testify
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.
(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.
(v. i.) To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.
(v. t.) To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.
(v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.
(adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(2) Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.
(3) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
(4) The data obtained testify to the presence in the granular fraction of the endopeptidase LTH-converting activity which is sensitive to pepstatin A, an aspartyl proteinase inhibitor as well as to chelators and a serine proteinase inhibitor.
(5) Asymmetry was revealed with predominance of the amplitude increase in the right hemisphere in the phase of the rapid sleep testifying to different roles of the cerebral hemispheres in processing of emotionally significant information.
(6) The many surgical procedures that have been proposed testify to the fact that no single reliable procedure has been developed.
(7) The biggest deviation of indexes, that testifies about metabolic changes comes to 9-14%, and immunobiological changes-up to 20-33%.
(8) The experimental curves plotted in the Scatchard coordinates testify to the presence in thromboplastin of two types of fragment I binding sites: those with a high (Kd = 7.6 x 10(-6) M) and moderate (Kd = 1.3 x 10(-8) M) binding affinity.
(9) He was also accused separately of obstruction of justice over allegations he tried to persuade a former aide not to testify against him.
(10) The results obtained testify to the considerable contribution of [3-14C] tryptophan and [2-14C] alanine to protein synthesis as well as to their involvement in the substrate supply of lipogenesis and energetic processes in various organs and tissues of cattle.
(11) On Sunday, there was an expectation that the trial could be extended after Olmert's long-time aide Shula Zaken turned state's witness and agreed to testify against him.
(12) He has, however, refused to testify, invoking his right to remain silent, while his lawyer has insisted his client is “insane” and therefore unfit for trial.
(13) Subjects with a desynchronized EEG differ from those with alpha-rhythm predominance by the highest coherence and similarity of the spectra along with their low stability in the anterior parts of the hemisphere which testifies to a high dynamic integration of the frontal systems.
(14) The prosecution claimed that before the trial, both Humphrey and Yu testified to police that they knew the company was operating in a legal "grey zone".
(15) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
(16) Testifying before the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia, said the court's ruling had left him devastated.
(17) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
(18) His report, which has been obtained by The Observer, shows that Mubanga had asked for his sister, aunt and brother to testify in his defence.
(19) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
(20) He had raised the possibility of calling witnesses to testify "if it really is the case that legitimate lobbyists could be paid 30% of the value of a $40m contract simply as recompense for their time and trouble".