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Eyewitness


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
  • (2) Asylum seekers detained in the family and single women camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests, Guardian Australia has been told by eyewitness sources.
  • (3) The briefing points, obtained by the AP, added that "there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations" but did not mention eyewitness accounts that blamed militants alone.
  • (4) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
  • (5) Among the others killed were embassy guards – eyewitnesses said they had tried to stop a suicide bomber riding a motorbike near the building's gates, which were destroyed in the attack.
  • (6) Citing testimony from eyewitnesses and survivors, the UN said Islamic State gunmen arrived at the front gate in a group of pick-up trucks.
  • (7) The strikes in the area continued on Saturday as dozens of families fled, security officials and eyewitnesses said.
  • (8) G4S managers “lost control” o f some of their local employees who also joined the violence, according to eyewitness statements .
  • (9) The revamp of Ten’s news brand as Eyewitness News , beginning on Monday night, has been overshadowed by the shock resignation of the broadcaster’s high-profile journalist, Hamish Macdonald.
  • (10) Eyewitnesses said that ambulances could not immediately reach the scene of the attack, and that police further obstructed the quick evacuation of the wounded from the square where the explosions occurred.
  • (11) "In finished reports after September 11, 2012, intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the Mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, but without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion," the committee wrote.
  • (12) I walked into the newsroom and there was an eyewitness account making allegations [against Ukraine] and analysis, if you can call it, from our correspondent in the studio.
  • (13) 9.08am BST Reuters has more on the pro-Russian incursion in Slaviansk Six armoured personnel carriers entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, on Wednesday with the lead vehicle bearing the Russian flag, a Reuters eyewitness said.
  • (14) Five staged-crime experiments were conducted to examine the effect of lineup biases and sequential presentation on eyewitness recognition accuracy.
  • (15) An eyewitness account of scenes at the Hotel Bibby, the floating accommodation block used by contractors on Manus, published by Guardian Australia on Tuesday , describes wounded asylum seekers being taken by G4S personnel on ute to a makeshift hospital.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
  • (17) One eyewitness, Michael Kiefer of Arizona Republic, counted the prisoner gasping 660 times .
  • (18) The performance of those subjects who were given anxiety-arousing instructions at encoding and retrieval and who scored high on the Test Anxiety Scale (TAS; Sarason, 1972) was less accurate on an eyewitness task than was that of the subjects who scored low on the scale.
  • (19) Eyewitnesses in Sana’a said Houthi fighters and allied military units were repositioning some anti-aircraft units at police stations, causing panic among residents who fear they will become targets for air strikes.
  • (20) The present study investigated the relationship between individual differences in anxiety and eyewitness performance.

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".

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