Sentence examples for corroborating fact from inspiring English sources

The mismatch between lore and corroborating fact is something "as historians we come across often," he said.

As I have already shown, the affidavit here does not set forth a single corroborating fact that is sworn to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant.

The Guardian was also alone in putting inside quote marks the police claim that bottles were thrown while they attended to the dying man; all other papers treated the allegation as corroborated fact.

Again, he cites no specifics, and ignores corroborated facts that were reviewed by four sets of lawyers before publication.

Instead, Mr. Badat and Mr. Vinas were called to corroborate facts about the training in Qaeda-run camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He has been answering questions for 25 years-authors call to corroborate facts, sculptors ask for the lengths of limb bones on various animals; publishers often request body measurements, Ripley's office is on the phone a lot.

When the most powerful members of the majority party in Congress call in the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate certain individuals for publishing corroborated facts, that is much more than "a misuse of the agency and a clumsy attack on press freedom" (editorial, Sept. 18).

Those men, Saajid Badat, a Briton who was supposed to bring down an airplane as the second so-called shoe bomber, and Bryant Neal Vinas, a Long Island man who took up arms and fought against American troops in Afghanistan, were called as expert witnesses about Al Qaeda to corroborate facts about the overseas terrorism camps where they trained.

"The newly released information in the autopsy report appears to corroborate facts gathered by investigators in the aftermath of this tragic incident.

Eriksson himself helped Manuel's case by testifying briefly as a defense witness, corroborating the fact that Manuel had refused to obey Meserve's order to kill Mao.

He added, "we have emails corroborating the fact that the Chairman is the one who cancelled the meeting".