Sentence examples for particular confession from inspiring English sources

The motive of a person in confessing is of no importance provided the particular confession does not result from threats, fear or promises made by persons in actual or seeming authority.

But Mr. Falzini says this particular confession appears to be genuine.

Orthodox theologians, rather than seeking literal conformity with any particular confession, will look for consistency with Scripture and tradition, as it has been expressed in the ancient councils, in the works of the Church Fathers (the early theological authorities of the church), and in the uninterrupted life of the liturgy.

No man, no problem' and (he was advising his interrogators on how best to elicit a particular confession) ‘Beat, beat and beat again.'".

As a result, no particular doctrinal confession is endorsed, and acceptance of each other's faith tradition is stressed.

During the 1980s, "a significant number of police officers in that squad, some of whom rose to very senior rank, behaved outrageously, and in particular extracted confessions by grossly improper means, amounting in some cases to torture.

This could be due to the greater number of predictor variables controlled for in our study, in particular care-giving, confession and religiosity.

"We have no confidence that these people get due process, and in particular the issue of confession is always tricky because of the use of pretrial torture and coercion in China," he said.

It is the confessions in particular that have closed gaps in the terrorism experts' information, and US security experts have allowed the first details to filter down to the public in recent weeks.

When John Childs, one of the most notorious of post-war murderers, confessed last year that he had committed other murders for which he had not been convicted, the confession was of particular interest to one man starting the 21st year of his sentence for murder at Swaleside prison in Kent.

Sussman implausibly holds the latter to be definitive of torture: "The victim of torture finds within herself a surrogate of the torturer, a surrogate who does not merely advance a particular demand for information, denunciation or confession.