Sentence examples for instead of testifying from inspiring English sources

Instead of testifying before the grand jury, Hincapie cooperated and gave sworn statements.

"I'd like to get back to the business of advertising instead of testifying".

She took the stand and instead of testifying she began singing her hit antiwar song "Where have all the flowers gone?" Judge Julius Hoffman ordered her to stop.

The elderly men were still living in the same communities in which they had committed their crimes decades before, and almost all were willing to talk – as Oppenheimer explains: "All of the perpetrators I had met were all showing off, and were all performing instead of testifying.

"All of the perpetrators I met were showing off, and were all performing instead of testifying," he explained when we spoke at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin.

I went through the experience of testifying.

For instance, Robert Iger, president of the Walt Disney Company, testified instead of its more prominent chairman, Michael D. Eisner, and Mr. Harris testified for Sony Pictures instead of the chairman, John Calley.

Instead of hearing Ben Bernanke testifying, or Congress and the Fed trading blame, maybe it's time to ask some CEOs why they have taken themselves out of the equation of getting America back on its feet.

Instead, Smith testified that he had listened to audio recordings of the personal calls made by Barrett in jail to journalists, filmmakers, and supporters.

Instead, he testified, he found his sister's body.

Instead, he testified, the bank was formed after meetings in the St . Francis Hotelhere with a group of San Francisco in vestors, whose names he gave.