Sentence examples for normal testimony from inspiring English sources

Unlike argument, where a speaker explicitly presents reasons to back the assertion, in normal testimony the speaker does not.

By the time Mr Keith had resumed watching his monitors, which were tracking pressure levels on the Deepwater Horizon rig, the safety gauges had returned to normal, according to testimony he gave to the joint Coast Guard-Interior Department panel in Houston.

The inference involves no explicitly normative notion, yet it yields the same pattern of virtually automatic acceptance of testimony in normal settings.

They expect a blanket prohibition of testimony, in contrast to a normal proceeding in which a judge rules on the admissibility of individual bits of evidence.

The alternative, he said, was "a sea change in normal criminal law practices" that could require testimony from 10 analysts in a single case, pushing "the system in the direction of relying on less reliable eyewitness testimony rather than more reliable technical laboratory DNA-type evidence".

The report includes testimony from girls who consider it "normal" to be "cornered" into having sex with five or more gang members.

"I am heartened that the court recognizes the importance of this kind of testimony and that it is not in the normal understanding of the jury," he said.

In testimony to the House Banking Committee, Mr. Greenspan was also blunter than normal in suggesting that one of his primary targets in raising interest rates was the stock market.

His normal life is that of a comedian, which is why he described the testimony of the criminalist Dennis Fung as a "cringe-a-thon".

In his testimony, Mr. Bernanke said that some corners of the once-frozen financial markets were edging toward normal.

Expert testimony quickly proved that the communications the FBI built their case upon showed Xi engaged in normal academic correspondence with colleagues in China.