The phrase "act of testifying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts when referring to the process of giving evidence or making a statement under oath.
Example: "The act of testifying in court can be a daunting experience for many witnesses."
Alternatives: "process of testifying" or "testimony process".
"The victims of these despicable acts will be spared the trauma of testifying at trial," Mr. Brown said in a statement.
In other words, not only the content of the testimonies before the TRC was of significance; the mere act of blacks testifying was transformative as well.
He says that such acts of generosity "testify to a realization that a regime of industry carried on for private gain does not satisfy the full human nature of even those who profit by it".
But as war, monetary greed and our other ceaseless acts of destruction testify, the Id (to use Freud's term for the reservoir of biological drives and impulses in the unconscious) is very much still in charge.
VICE News reporter Jason Leopold, a long-form investigative journalist once described by the feds as a "FOIA terrorist" for the number of document requests and appeals he has filed under the United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), is testifying Tuesday before Congress on the routine "agency feet-dragging" and poor handling of records requests, which frequently last several years.
Ressam, who had been convicted in Los Angeles in April of conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism, was testifying in July before the New York jury that ultimately found Mokhtar Haouari guilty of helping him.
On Wednesday, Robert Blakey, who helped to draft of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, testified on behalf of the Russian Customs Committee, which is suing the bank.
After Calhoun allegedly witnessed the sex act, Petrosky testified, he was so shaken and distraught that thought he was having some kind of medical emergency.
1594, 12 L.Ed.2d 678 (1964), there is no problem here of limitations imposed on other jurisdictions by New York's act of compelling petitioner to testify against himself.
'(N o person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify.' Act of February 11 , 1893 27 Stat.
