(n.) Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Example Sentences:
(1) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(2) Wang admitted basing his report “on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”, Xinhua added.
(3) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
(4) Hearsay and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
(5) "It turns out Mr Lewis's account contradicts the hearsay evidence attributed to Det Sgt Maberly.
(6) Questionnaires regarding experience, hearsay, and perceptions of anxiety toward eight dental treatments were distributed to a general patient population.
(7) On the role of the Boston College-Belfast Project tapes, he says: "The allegation of conspiracy in the killing of Mrs McConville is based almost exclusively on hearsay from unnamed alleged Boston College interviewees but mainly from the late Dolours Price [an IRA Old Bailey bomber] and Brendan Hughes [a Belfast IRA commanding officer].
(8) But a senior western diplomat dismissed this as hearsay, arguing that the Sudanese government's desire to strengthen ties with Cairo made them unlikely to side against Egypt on Libya .
(9) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(10) The reason, again according to hearsay, was that he dozed off during one of Kim’s speeches.
(11) He said: "In the report, statements are made and inferences drawn on condition of anonymity and hearsay.
(12) Stuart-Smith concluded there was no cover-up, because the changes mostly involved removing comment and hearsay, although he did criticise some deletions of fact.
(13) But the home secretary cannot intervene on the basis of suspicion, rumour or hearsay.” May said the home affairs committee was also told that the concerns raised in April were confidential and they were treated as such.
(14) If one was to disavow common sense, history, evidence and truth, and, instead, rely purely on hysteria and hearsay created out of conjecture, then perhaps superficial appearances do conclusively prove Obama is a Muslim.
(15) There is reason to think, however, that all his evidence is hearsay, and that he himself never witnessed an act of cannibalism.
(16) We knew there were technical challenges but it was all hearsay.
(17) Does stating facts based on several independent levels of input and not on a few bits of non-expert hearsay endanger the reef-based tourism industry?
(18) But in a 11,750-word statement published on the Nike Oregon Project website he finally tackled the allegations which he said had left “innocent athletes’ careers tarnished with nothing but innuendo, hearsay and rumour”.
(19) It truly goes without saying.” He added : ... even if substituting a ministerial opinion based on untested hearsay and intelligence for the verdict of a jury were within the powers of parliament, should we do so as a matter of tradition and decency?
(20) The statements made in the letter regarding arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances completely distorted the situation on the ground, and constitute generalisations based on hearsay and intentional distortions by those striving to regain a foothold in Egypt after being rejected by the people.
Oath
Definition:
(n.) A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.
(n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
(n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.
(n.) A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(2) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
(3) Ultimately, the new contract undermines our oath to do no harm and risks the future of the NHS and the safety of the public.
(4) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
(5) This oath and a doctors’ ability to act in their patient’s best interests, must be respected in all circumstances, including in Australia’s immigration detention facilities,” Talley added.
(6) However, as Captain Black articulated frankly in Catch-22’s Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade : “The important thing is to keep them pledging … It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not.
(7) The trial of the singer and TV entertainer Tulisa Contostavlos over drugs allegations has dramatically collapsed after the judge ruled that the Sun investigative reporter whose evidence was central to the case had seemingly lied on oath.
(8) Only the disloyal take offence, thereby proving how much we need the oath.
(9) De Blasio took the oath of office moments after midnight in front of his modest Brooklyn home.
(10) A Hong Kong court has disqualified four pro-democracy lawmakers for failing to sincerely take the oath of office, a huge blow to the city’s opposition.
(11) Scott Morrison has said he was “offended” and “disappointed” that his friend the broadcaster Ray Hadley pressed him to swear an oath on the Bible to prove he was telling the truth about his actions in the Liberal leadership upheaval.
(12) Francis has for a long time favoured an independent public inquiry where he could testify on oath.
(13) As many as 7% of psychiatrists admit to having sexual intercourse with patients, despite ethical prohibitions going back to the Hippocratic Oath.
(14) Abbott has claimed repeatedly that “green tape” and “lawfare” are holding up a potential 10,000 jobs at his favourite coal mine, even though the company’s own economics expert, Dr Jerome Fahrer, admitted under oath that the figure was closer to 1,500 – including indirect jobs.
(15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
(16) This paper surveys selected historical foundations of the present American Physical Therapy Association's CODE OF ETHICS, showing the extent to which the present code draws upon oaths, ideas in ethics textbooks, and other sources.
(17) We have people from three different branches of government who take an oath to uphold and defend the constitution.
(18) The government will file a lawsuit seeking to unseat Lau Siu-lai, Nathan Law, Edward Yiu and Leung Kwok-hung by declaring their oaths of office invalid, local media reported .
(19) Pro-Beijing supporters are pushing for a review of whether he and seven other legislators should also be disqualified from office because of their protests at the oath-taking ceremony.
(20) As a physician this is my oath, I’m going to treat everyone regardless.” The organisation’s latest public relations campaign has used the slogan “the doctor of your enemy is not your enemy”.