(v. t.) To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.
(v. t.) To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
(n.) A perjured person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheridan was conducting his own defence at Glasgow high court in 2010, in his words "fighting for his life" against charges that he had perjured himself in 2006 during his infamous libel trial against the NoW.
(2) Its police authority expressed concern that there may have been “inaccurate perjured evidence at the very least”, but in a report on 25 September 1985, Wright assured them that was not the case .
(3) "If someone perjured themselves in a Scottish court, that makes it a wholly Scottish matter and it will be dealt with wholly by the Scottish authorities and the Scottish courts," he said.
(4) Again, with Geraldine Proudler and George Carman on our case, we won a dramatic high court battle after producing, mid-trial; the airline tickets, which proved that Aitken had given perjured evidence.
(5) The IPCC, in its report into Orgreave last June, said it believed the settlement was “very much prompted” by South Yorkshire police having privately acknowledged that some officers did “overreact” on the day, and had perjured themselves in court.
(6) It is clear that in many parts of the world constituted by Australian trade union officials, there is room for louts, thugs, bullies, thieves, perjurers, those who threaten violence, errant fiduciaries and organisers of boycotts,” it said.
(7) In the UK, both the late John Profumo , who gave his name to a "scandal", and Jonathan Aitken, who perjured himself in a court action against the Guardian , illustrate the long and rocky road to redemption.
(8) In 1957 her father, testifying in court under the malign influence of Richard Crossman in a libel action against the Spectator denied drunkenness at a conference in Venice, thus successfully perjuring himself.
(9) Perjurers can face unlimited imprisonment in Scotland.
(10) In a city like Baltimore, you can sit in your radio car and make a drug arrest without understanding or requiring probable cause [reasonable suspicion], without worrying about how you're going to testify in court without perjuring yourself, without learning how to use and not be used by an informant, without learning how to write a search and seizure warrant, without doing any of the requisite things that makes a good cop into a great cop, somebody that can solve a murder, a rape, a robbery, a burglary.
Willfully
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(3) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(4) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(5) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
(7) He also said that at least under the Labour government Gordon Brown had been willing to meet the Argentinians.
(8) Only 4% are willing to face the other option – paying for content with no ads.
(9) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
(10) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
(11) The bill hands £80bn to new GP commissioning boards and will allow any willing provider to compete to provide services.
(12) One of the reasons consumers are willing to take these cases on through the small claims process is because they are not exposed to the other side's costs."
(13) The Fe-protein and the MoFe-protein of the Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase complex can be chemically cross-linked by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (Willing, A., Georgiadis, M.M., Rees, D. C., and Howard, J.
(14) During his visit to Europe he did not speak at length on the subject of the shooting, but seemed more willing than Giuliani to distance the Dallas tragedy from the Black Lives Matter movement.
(15) "Only a minority of doctors would be willing to participate in such acts," the authors clear-thinkingly object.
(16) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
(17) Before the vote was announced, Dimon told shareholders the bank was willing to "pay attention to what we've heard."
(18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
(19) That is likely to happen under plans by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , to let "any willing provider" – part of the health service, a private healthcare provider or a charity – be paid out of NHS funds to treat NHS patients.
(20) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.