Sentence examples for version of a truth from inspiring English sources

Mali needs its version of a truth and reconciliation commission.

Guatemala's version of a truth commission, the Historical Clarification Commission, concluded that during the country's armed conflict the vast majority of those who were killed, raped or tortured or who disappeared were Maya Indians.

But then the cut‑and-paste stories, put out by the interior ministry about the prison deaths, fell apart, and a version of a truth came out: 38 men, arrested over the last couple of days in the vicinity of the Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rab'a al-Adawiya Square, and held on remand, were being transferred to jail.

Obviously, there is much power at stake in labeling one version of "truth" a "conspiracy" and another a "fact".

ARTHUR CHERTOWSKY Brooklyn, e-mail I am continuously accosted by Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons at my door, as well as Christians on the radio, television and billboards, all trying to claim me for their version of a sometimes violent truth.

Our legal system rests on the fiction that some combination of police, prosecutors, and defense attorneys can work their way toward an approximate version of the truth of an event.

A core conceit of both the stage show and the movie is that each band member has his own Rashomon-like version of the truth, a theme represented with variable success on-screen by characters directly addressing the audience in the casual manner of Woody Allen in Annie Hall (which Brickman co-wrote).

It's a version of truth speaking to power where truth prevails even if the plans, like many of Mr. Sander's proposals, are not fully baked.

"What's different in the age of Facebook and Instagram is that people are very aware of the mechanism of constructing a story, a version of their own lives or experience, which is a version of the truth, but very different to the experience itself," he says, adding that this kind of slipperiness appeals.

It would help them achieve their goal of a "single version of the truth"," he said.

In other words, Moritz draws his conclusions from his version of an aesthetics of truth, while Kant will draw similar conclusions from an aesthetics based on the idea of the free play of mental powers.