The public was savage and unrelenting: Thomas Hamblin, the interestingly titled Theatre Inquisitor reported, was greeted, after playing Othello, with "one deep and universal hiss, and we hope that this decisive testimony of public opinion will teach him to estimate more correctly his own attainments and abilities".
The so-called experts were known for crisscrossing the state, supplying valuable and even decisive testimony on call and for a price.
The ruling stated defendants have a right to know the identity of the witness giving evidence against them if the testimony is decisive.
It is uncertain what suddenly made these two ex-agents suddenly and so-vociferously come to the billionaire's defence, but their testimony proved decisive.Mr Babiš admits to being one-time member of the Communist Party, but strongly denies ever colluding with the StB.
The principle was also enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; under case law of the European court, no conviction should be based solely, or to a decisive extent, on the testimony of anonymous witnesses.The law lords accepted that the problem of witness intimidation was real.
If the automaticity of our response to testimony is not decisive for whether the epistemic basis is a priori, innate, or empirical, then, similarly, the evidence of a typical acceptance of testimony is evidence that our trust in speakers is not 'blind,' given that hearers are responsive to when speakers are unreliable or insincere.
After the trial, a juror said the testimony of Morales was decisive in reaching the verdict.
The new power women exercise within the mafia makes their testimonies all the more decisive when they choose to become informants.
The testimonies of women have been decisive in piercing the thick wall of silence that exists around the mafia, but it's only over the past decade that their role within the organisation has come to the fore.
Nor should doctors' expert testimony, which is subject to error, be considered decisive.
The verdict, rendered in under a day of deliberations by a five-member panel after a nine-day court-martial at this base 45 miles south of Seattle, was a decisive victory for Army prosecutors, whose case against Sergeant Gibbs was built largely on testimony from other soldiers, including many who had pleaded guilty in the crimes.
