Sentence examples for persuaded to testify from inspiring English sources

Many prosecutors rejected the idea that women could be persuaded to testify against their relatives.

Bamber's lawyers said this raised the possibility that she had been persuaded to testify in the hope that charges would not be pursued.

That means picking cases and targets that can be brought to justice, and finding witnesses who can be persuaded to testify in return for leniency.

detectives persuade to testify against the man who raped her forty years earlier.

Officers wanting to make a ticket disappear often sought out a union delegate, who, in turn, would contact a union official elsewhere to have a ticket pulled from a summons box or to have an officer persuaded not to testify in traffic court.

The conversations indicated that officers who had issued tickets were persuaded to either fail to show up to testify or to lie in court.

And police officers have interviewed scores of witnesses to shootings, unable to persuade anyone to testify.

By Monday, Brazil, Singapore and Latvia added their voices to the campaign to persuade Zuckerberg to testify, even if by video from afar.

A few weeks after his suspension, Mr. Kolchinsky left Moody's and testified about ratings problems before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, which released his memo and had to persuade him to testify, according to a committee staffer.

Nunberg said that the special counsel had sought to persuade him to testify against another former Trump adviser, Roger Stone, on collusion with Russians, but he said he would not because Stone has been a friend and mentor to him.

Anderson's lawyers said in June that they planned to file a so-called Grumbles motion to argue that Anderson's confinement had become more of a punishment than a legitimate effort to persuade him to testify.