Sentence examples for had to corroborate from inspiring English sources

Until the 1970s, in New York and several other states, in order for a man to be convicted of rape the prosecution had to corroborate the testimony of the victim with respect to penetration, force and identity of the rapist.

Though Palestinians have accused Israel of being responsible for his death, some believe that Palestinians would have had to corroborate with Israel to put poison in his food or medicine while he was under siege in Ramallah.

Weren't, for instance, primitive men and women using their hunches to keep them out of the grip of marauding enemies, human or sub-human, without having to corroborate their behavior with a new study undertaken by Fred Flintstone?

Further studies will have to corroborate these findings.

Future research, especially on the translocon of cyanelles, will have to corroborate this model.

Wroblewski knew that details in the novel did not qualify as evidence — they had to be corroborated independently.

"Detective Wroblewski knew that details in Krystian Bala's novel did not qualify as evidence — they had to be corroborated independently.

Adam Schiff, a Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said: "This is not the usual kind of chatter … it had to be corroborated or come from very reliable sources to take this kind of action.

That was an era when rape in marriage was not an offence, complainants had to be corroborated because they were seen as unreliable, and rape by acquaintances was rarely reported.

The three men pledged themselves to secrecy off the campus until other members of the faculty had had an opportunity to corroborate what they had seen.

But the state had failed to corroborate her evidence, and then, rather than admit its failure, had concluded that her testimony was worthless.