Sentence examples for accept the testimony from inspiring English sources

Sometimes religious courts do not fully accept the testimony of children or women, making proving molestation claims very difficult.

In addition, the Guardian saw police papers that show how quickly – within 36 hours – detectives appeared to believe and accept the testimony of taxi driver Zola Tongo, which was vital to the prosecution's case.

We wouldn't accept the cold war and the threat of MAD (mutually assured destruction) underpinning it; we wouldn't accept the Thatcherite attack on the unions and the consequent privatisation of public enterprises; and we wouldn't even accept the testimony of our senses when we saw the people surrounding us whipped into an acquisitive frenzy by the City's Big Bang.

Corresponding to the authority you ascribe and the trust you extend to the stranger, you impose a duty on yourself to accept the testimony, unless you have specific reason to object.

For example, in looking at a straight stick in water, even though it appears bent, we know from past sense experiences not to accept the testimony of our senses at face value in such situations because we have learned that straight sticks look bent in water.

These discussions, and in less direct ways those for the Assurance View, pose a difficult question: How can, or how does, this vulnerability (to insincerity, specifically), dependence on good will, and empathy constitute part of the hearer's reason to accept the testimony of the speaker?

But Joshi, who presided over the appeal, said the court had erred in accepting the testimony of the prosecution's key witness.

She mentioned a case where a court accepted the testimony of an individual who said the document that person signed appeared to be a sign up sheet, with the release language inconspicuous above a column of signatures.

Duncan said some of the jurors had a problem accepting the testimony of Rick Gates, Manafort's former right-hand man, because he was testifying as part of a plea deal and "would have done anything that he could to preserve himself".

And how did the courts decide to admit her evidence and allow her example to create a precedent for accepting the testimony of other child witnesses who wanted to send their neighbours to the gallows?

Despite the questionable legal application of all of the testimony presented by the prosecution, the court accepted the testimony and 'footage' as legitimate in the persecution of Abu Rahma.