Sentence examples for told to testify from inspiring English sources

Normally, the reporter is being told to testify about his or her knowledge of a crime; this time, the reporter's conversation — the source's half of it, anyway — is itself the crime, if a crime there was.

He faced questions directly from U.S. lawmakers earlier this year when he was told to testify to senators in April.

"It's traditional, I'm told, to provide ballot security," he testified.

Mr. Armstrong told the legislators that Sherman Adams, a top White House aide at the time, who was involved in the case, had told him not to testify.

She said that she knew that Crawford's lawyer had told him not to testify, but she still felt it was wrong not to defend himself.

The people telling him not to testify got new gravitas, and Ken realized it was a stacked deck.

In one early incident, officials said, the mayor's office told Mr. Klein not to testify at a City Council Education Committee hearing in November.

While Mr. Cohan asserts that the commission's staff told Mr. Bowen not to testify about his concerns that Citigroup misrepresented its certifications of internal controls, Mr. Bowen's public testimony included significant information about breakdowns in internal controls at the bank.

Browder told HuffPost he plans to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week on Veselnitskaya's effort to repeal the Magnitsky Act.

If Congress could not go to court, there is not much else it could do if the president refused a request for documents or told a witness not to testify.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who is leading the Wednesday congressional hearing that has invited critics of the NSA programs to testify, told The Guardian, "I think that most people simply don't understand that, despite the news coverage, which my view has been extremely unfocused.