Sentence examples for vital testimony from inspiring English sources

Yet another local legend places Jackson at a hearing into the dissolution of Stax, providing vital testimony that needed silencing.

Pemper's prodigious memory and ­powers of observation allowed him to give vital testimony in the commandant's trial in Poland after the war, which resulted in Göth's execution.

A Kosovar who had testified in the murder trial of Haradinaj's brother Daut was gunned down; an internal U.N. document noted that the Kosovar had been expected to deliver "vital" testimony in "other war-crimes cases".

As a soldier and captive in the wars between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires, Cervantes left us a vital testimony of this tumultuous period, including his relations with Muslims and "renegades" - Christian converts to Islam.

Thus we saw vivid tableaux, acted out by in fact the real thing, but we also heard intensely vital testimony, tears even, of lost teenage years, of regrets… crucially, of the power a gun confers on one.

Following its earlier attempts to withhold documents from the panel and then to deny its members vital testimony, we now learn that President Bush's staff has been withholding thousands of pages of Clinton administration papers as well.

No news organization today could get away with exclusive control over vital historic testimony for so many years.

The appeals lawyer said there had been jury misconduct, the exclusion of vital witnesses' testimony and conflict of interest for Mr. Hayat's trial lawyer.

In other cases, as in the Tricycle's 2004 play about Guantanamo, Honour Bound to Defend Freedom, it may be vital personal testimony as to the circumstances of imprisonment.

"The DOJ, as the Central Authority, will always provide assistance to other countries knowing how vital the documents, testimonies and other evidence are to the successful prosecution of criminals.

First, music operates as a vital form of oral testimony.