Sentence examples for get to testify from inspiring English sources
He did not get to testify at the officers' trial.
My brother Andrew came from Zurich, where he lives, and didn't even get to testify.
In addition to the power to investigate, the tools available to the majority party include committee chairmanships (which largely determine what kinds of witnesses get to testify at, for instance, hearings on climate change) and control in shaping the federal bench (including, perhaps, the Supreme Court).
What it is they hope to accomplish is never quite clear, and the movie builds to a scene in which the women get to testify before a Congressional subcommittee as if that were some kind of triumph, when in reality such committee meetings mostly generate hot air.
Most of the opponents, including the federal privacy commissioner, did not get to testify before the committee.
Last summer, the first Clemens trial ended in a mistrial after just two days, and McNamee never got to testify.
Which returns us to the tricky question "Surveillance" forces upon its readers: In the courtroom of history, who gets to testify as a credible witness?
Mr. Goodale says that judges now look at prevailing legal opinions and say that "a reporter's got to testify" and "there's no privilege" to protect a journalist or his source.
A senior government official who was outside the hearing room (he had not been cleared to attend the briefing) recalled what happened next: "I was outside when Robert Peck" — the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, who died last year — "rushed out and said to me, 'You've got to testify.
By the time Sarah Slamen finally got to testify against a restrictive anti-abortion bill in front of a Texas state Senate committee this week, her plans had changed, she told Daily Kos in a recent interview.
But Nicole Gestas's lawyer, Smith, said: "Fundamentally it is unfair that the government, in efforts to get Barry Bonds, would threaten Nicole and her mother to try to get Anderson to testify against Bonds.
