Sentence examples for attestations from inspiring English sources

THE defence lawyers wield attestations half a century old, dusty land documents tied with pink ribbons, attendance records from Nazi social functions, and pages photocopied from history books.

Papyri and ostraca tell this story in a long succession of attestations through most of the 2nd millennium bce.

In addition, the extended urban domain concealed countless deserted plots, called kharāb ("uninhabited," or "in ruin") in the waqf documents, where ruins stood as attestations to the bankrupt economy and dismal urban order on the eve of the Ottoman conquest by Sultan Selim I in 1516.

It can be argued, however, that since most such creole features (i.e., those associated today with creoles) come in this case from English itself, their attestations in Caribbean English creoles are not conclusive evidence for stipulating that Gullah is a separate language.

There is a thousand-year gap in textual attestations of Romance in the Balkans (from the 6th to the 16th centuries ce).

Using such attestations, Diakonoff classified Afro-Asiatic languages into Ancient, Middle, and Late Stage languages according to the extent to which they retained features of the ancestral protolanguage.

The first documented instance in English of "elector" as a translation of the German word Kurfürst (literally, "choose-prince") is from 1529, some 61 years later.We then have knights electors (first attestation: 1628).

Eugene O'Kelly, the head of KPMG's American business, has said he reckons auditors' attestation fees related to section 404 should fall by 15-25% this year.Less visible costs have also been incurred.

In addition, the assurance services of professionally certified accountants include all of the following: financial, compliance, and assurance audits; less-formal review of financial information; attestation about the reliability of another party's written assertion; and other assurance services not strictly requiring formal audits (e.g., forward-looking information and quality assertions).

Jesus' belief that the Son of Man would soon arrive to usher in the kingdom is confirmed as authentic by multiple attestation.

Ordinarily, attestation of a will by such a disqualified witness will not result in the invalidity of the entire instrument but only of the provision from which the witness would have benefitted.