Sentence examples for privilege of testifying from inspiring English sources

I had the privilege of testifying in front of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology several months ago.

Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you and the Committee's esteemed members for the privilege of testifying before you.

It's a mentality rooted in white privilege and assisted, unwittingly or not, by the black baptist church ritual of "testifying," confessing your sins before the congregation and being absolved.

The brief by prosecutors cited several precedents, including a landmark 1972 Supreme Court decision, holding that there is no reporter's privilege against testifying before a grand jury.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled in July that reporters have no special privilege to avoid testifying about their sources and that Mr. Risen, who prosecutors say used Mr. Sterling as a source for a 2006 book on the C.I.A., would have to testify.

That may be why nearly every jurisdiction that has recognized a physician-patient privilege not to testify in court, either by statute or though case law, has confined the privilege to knowledge acquired during the course of providing medical services.

In a footnote to his order indicating that he would rule in favor of Fox, the judge said Mr. Gordon's decision to invoke attorney-client privilege rather than testify about his contractual arrangements had helped Fox.

Ms. Dozoretz informed the panel, the House Government Reform Committee, that she would exercise her Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify.

The law on the legal privilege of journalists to avoid being compelled to testify in a criminal inquiry is notoriously sketchy, but the courts have repeatedly recognized that reporters' work is entitled to a degree of protection.

Dozens of victims testified of atrocities.

The rejection of the case by the supreme court marked the latest in a series of refusals by the high court to consider the question of a reporter's privilege to avoid testifying in order to protect source confidentiality.