Sentence examples for deponent from inspiring English sources

Much of this argument is, however, based on accidental resemblances (e.g., the Irish future tense in f- and the Latin future in b-) or on formations such as the deponent and passive verb forms ending in -r, which at one time were known mainly in Italic and Celtic but have since been found in the Hittite and Tocharian languages as well.

Dickens wrote to a friend of the town, that "(It) was and is, and to the best of my belief will always be, the chosen resort and retreat of jaded intellectuals and exhausted nature; being, as this Deponent further saith it is, far removed from the sights and noises of the busy world, and filled with the delicious murmur and repose of the broad ocean".

He maintained his innocence, his rote replies taking on a smug absurdity: Q: May the deponent say to which organization he belongs.

Which it is, deponent sayeth not.

Further deponent sayeth not.

The most compelling walk-on in Mr. Nicholl's drama is George Wilkins, a fellow deponent in the Mountjoy lawsuit and a collaborator on "Pericles, Prince of Tyre".

None of the deponents, plaintiff says, has admitted to having personal knowledge of the source of any disclosures.

Compared to this, Hemingway's characters sound button-lipped, like deponents in front of a stenographer.

"Plaintiffs are entitled to explore when these potential deponents knew of these conditions, what they did in response thereto, and how far the State of New Jersey is implicated, not only in the knowledge and nurture of profiling, but in its cover-up," Mr. Buckman wrote.