What shocked me was not that the cops offered this dubious justification, but that the Los Angeles County prosecutors had put them on the stand -- on national television, no less -- to testify to it, and that the judge accepted the officers' statements as admissible.
Recent changes in the military rules make it likely that future victims will have to testify less often than the victim in this case.
And so the peacefulness, the serenity that we feel away from the Internet, and which all the Better-Nevers rightly testify to, has less to do with being no longer harried by others than with being less oppressed by the force of your own inner life.
As the fall wore on, Ketchum grew less interested in testifying in the lawsuit.
By the third day of the trial, I was becoming less nervous about testifying on the stand.
This will be less stressful than testifying before Congress, we promise.
If you were feeling very, very brave you might go touch up your make-up in the ladies, but as my fellow Willow-devotees will testify, perhaps the less said about the toilets, the better.
Stories have an inner power of their own and as anyone who has written a piece of fiction will testify, writers are less the masters than the galley slaves of that mysterious power.
Mr. Hale said that by having her testify only once, there is less chance of her contradicting herself.
While adamant that he never did any sort of drugs while competing, the USADA came back with no less than ten witnesses who offered to testify against Armstrong.
