Sentence examples for is substantially true from inspiring English sources

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government," Washington had said.

Under the bill, a statement is regarded as defamatory if it "has caused or is likely to cause serious harm to the reputation" of a person or a company, but any claim for damages will fail if it can be shown, for example, that the defamatory statement is "substantially true".

Many of the complaints are valid and much of what is said is substantially true.

An employee will be protected if he "makes a disclosure in good faith" to one of these people, and "reasonably believes that the relevant failure...is a matter in respect of which the person is prescribed and the information is substantially true".

This was substantially true.

But he lost the case after the court decided her accusations were substantially true.

But, crucially, they were also found to be substantially true – meaning the publisher could rely on the defence of truth.

Mr Bower denied libel and said what he wrote in Conrad And Lady Black: Dancing On The Edge was substantially true and was not, in any event, defamatory.

Over a two week hearing, the judge will decide the preliminary issues of the meaning of the words complained of and whether they were substantially true.

After deliberations lasting more than four hours, the jury foreman told Eady they had found unanimously that the allegations contained in the articles were not likely to be substantially true.

In upholding Ms. Lipstadt's characterization of Mr. Irving, Justice Gray went to the core of the matter: "The charges which I have found to be substantially true include... that he is anti-Semitic and racist".