Sentence examples for testimony was needed from inspiring English sources

Apparently, their testimony was needed to confirm the indictment's message that the performance was an insult to all Orthodox believers.

The request, filed last week and disclosed Tuesday, said the testimony was needed "to ensure that the trial is both informed and fair".

Leaving the courthouse, Mr. Blagojevich's lawyers said that they had been split over whether he should testify, but that they had ultimately concluded that prosecutors had failed to prove the charges against him — and so no further testimony was needed.

Swiss justice officials said on Friday that they did not require access to the sealed testimony of a prosecutor involved in the case against the director Roman Polanski, even though lawyers for the filmmaker have said the testimony was needed for the officials to rule on his possible extradition to the United States.

A district court rejected her father's request to keep her on a ventilator, but the Nevada Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision, ruling that expert testimony was needed to determine whether the standard brain-death tests "adequately measure all functions of the entire brain".

The government said the testimony was needed to counter defense claims that a woman of Stewart's vast wealth would hardly bother to cheat to avoid a lousy $50,000 loss, which was the approximate amount she saved by selling ImClone of Dec. 27, 2001, just before ImClone announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had rejected the company's cancer drug.

The House general counsel's office is preparing to move to quash the subpoenas after failing to obtain a clear explanation of why the lawmakers' testimony is needed, said an aide to Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican who was subpoenaed.

William C. Thompson, a professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine, said those scandals proved that live testimony from analysts was needed to explore potential shortcomings in laboratory reports.

Most officeholders in Florida and, for that matter, most national politicians continue to at least pay lip service to the dream of a post-Communist Cuba, even though, early this year, Fidel Castro succeeded in seamlessly handing over power to his brother Raúl — testimony, if any was needed, to the stability of the regime.

Mr. Lieberman said the committee would use its subpoena power if it was needed to hear testimony from industry officials.

However, you indicated in your testimony that more funding for research was needed.