Sentence examples for they were testifying from inspiring English sources

But presidents have generally not taken an oath when they were testifying before a fact-finding body.

Sister Ping's lawyer, Lawrence Hochheiser, repeatedly returned to the credibility of these men, and suggested that they were testifying in exchange for reduced sentences.

"It takes away from their credibility," said McGarity, who said that the best witnesses were usually people still employed in the industry they were testifying about.

Stand please!" And marshals up at the green raising their arms for quiet during putts as if they were testifying in a Pentecostal church.

It was typical: people weren't sharing confidences, reader to writer, they were testifying, one fan speaking up in front of everybody else, with sardonic humour, wounded pride, pain.

Tensions have been so high in the courtroom, where grieving parents have attacked Israeli police officers as they were testifying, that the hearings are now going to be closed.

Two brothers who say they were regularly beaten and forced to work as child slaves in Mauritania have taken their case to a regional African child rights body, where they are testifying against their abuser and the Mauritanian government.

Mr. Jordan and Mr. Compass are working to build a safer witness protection system that would involve safe houses and relocation, as in federal cases where witnesses are at risk, so they can promise witnesses they will be protected from the criminals they are testifying against.

Now, experts will indeed have to have the background and widely recognized credentials concerning the subject about which they are testifying.

The names of the witnesses are being withheld, although they are testifying in open court.

Most courts try to keep marriage counselors out of the proceedings, though, unless they are testifying to something serious, Altschuler says.