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Verify
VERIFY To make certain, to substantiate, or to confirm by formal oath, affirmation, or affidavit. The U.S. legal system relies on its participants to tell the truth. Before witnesses can give testimony at a trial or some other proceeding, they must swear or affirm that the testimony about to be... Read more |
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Four Noble Truths
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Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers 1901-61, U.S. journalist and spy, b. Philadelphia. He joined the U.S. Communist party in 1925 and wrote for its newspaper before engaging (1935-38) in espionage for the USSR. He left the party in 1939 and began working for Time magazine. In 1948 he testified before the House... Read more |
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Testify
TESTIFY To provide evidence as a witness, subject to an oath or affirmation, in order to establish a particular fact or set of facts. Court rules require witnesses to testify about the facts they know that are relevant to the determination of the outcome of the case. Under the law a person may... Read more |
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions BIBLIOGRAPHY Many countries with histories of widespread human rights abuses in the past have turned to truth and reconciliation commissions as an institutional solution to the problem of transitional justice and attempted democratization. Although these... Read more |
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Hearsay
HEARSAY A statement made out of court that is offered in court as evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted. It is the job of the judge or jury in a court proceeding to determine whether evidence offered as proof is credible. Three evidentiary rules help the judge or jury make this... Read more |
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Credibility
CREDIBILITY Believability. The major legal application of the term credibility relates to the testimony of a witness or party during a trial. Testimony must be both competent and credible if it is to be accepted by the trier of fact as proof of an issue being litigated. The credibility of a... Read more |
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pragmatism
pragmatism , method of philosophy in which the truth of a proposition is measured by its correspondence with experimental results and by its practical outcome. Thought is considered as simply an instrument for supporting the life aims of the human organism and has no real metaphysical significance.... Read more |
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Truth
TRUTH. The concept of truth is central to Western philosophical thought, especially to such branches of philosophy as metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. In particular, the correspondence theory of truth has long been associated with a realist metaphysics, according to which... Read more |
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House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee (1938-75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies , set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. The committee's methods included... Read more |
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witness
...to his povertysynonyms: bear witness to, testify to, attest to...prove. 2. she was asked to witness to the truth of the statementsynonyms: testify...testimony about, attest to, bear witness to, give evidence about. |
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lie
lie2 • verb the witness was lyingsynonyms: tell a lie, tell an untruth...invent/make up a story, prevaricate, depart from the truth, be economical with the truth, bear false witness, lie through one's teeth; inf. lie like a rug... |
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prove
...verb 1. that proves I'm right synonyms: show (to be true), demonstrate (the truth of), show beyond doubt, manifest, produce proof/evidence; witness to, give substance to, determine, substantiate, corroborate, verify, ratify... |
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warrant
...reason for, offer grounds for, support. 3. unable to warrant the truth of the statementsynonyms: guarantee, swear to, answer for, vouch for, testify to, bear witness to, support, endorse, underwrite, back up, stand by. |
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credible
credible • adjective only one of the so-called witnesses could provide a credible storysynonyms: believable, plausible...probable, possible, feasible, reasonable, with a ring of truth, persuasive.See note at believable. |
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Nominee Pryor plans to witness truth
...General Bill Baxley, who prosecuted the first killer in the 1963 Baptist Church bombings in Birmingham, is also supporting him. Pryor told me, "I look forward to the confirmation process." He would be a "witness for the truth," he said. |
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Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony....
...McBride. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and...narrative or testimonial truth of slavery' within eighteenth...written form their own truths about slavery. Hence...had to juggle their own truths, and what they wanted their readers to believe as truth, within the mutually... |
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John Paul II--Witness to Truth. (Briefly Noted).
JOHN PAUL II--WITNESS TO TRUTH. Edited by KENNETH D. WHITEHEAD. St. Augustine's Press. 134 pp. $17 paper. Addresses on the title subject at a meeting... |
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Byers 'was not a witness of truth'.
FORMER Transport Secretary Stephen Byers 'was not a witness of truth' when he gave evidence in the [pounds sterling]157m Railtrack shareholders compensation case, according to Keith Rowley QC... |
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Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana
Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana...voter registration in his home parish. Witness to the Truth, compiled by Scott's...long and costly civil rights struggle. Witness to the Truth is a fascinating story... |
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For witness, 14, the truth can hurt
...taught him: He told the truth. "I knew if the policeman...up for intimidating a witness, the robbers' friends...ways to protect child witnesses. For now, protection...deal with protecting witnesses. "We can and do put...protective environment for witnesses {like Jason}, it...with ... |
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Witness to the Truth: the Complicity of Church and Dictatorship in Argentina.
Witness to the Truth: The Complicity of Church and Dictatorship...Juan Carlos Ongania-has given us in Witness to the Truth an important, thought...charges--has contributed the Foreword to Witness to the Truth. Of Mignone and his relationship... |
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Denying the witness for the truth
...enlightening into the mind of those who deny the witness for the truth about God as revealed in the Bible. Miller...is not true if belief's object is the truth. Jesus declared that he was "the way the truth and the life" (John 14:6). C.S... |
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Sex, maiming and murder: seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend...
...River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness of the truth Rod Moran Access Press, Bassendean...Ernest Gribble was an unreliable witness against his client, hardly an...that Neville Green's 'eye-witness' statement was 'simply made... |
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SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER TO CONVENE 'WITNESS TO THE TRUTH' VIDEOCONFERENCE OF...
...m., the Simon Wiesenthal Center will convene "Witness To The Truth" a videoconference of 70 survivors of the Nazi...witnessed and how their lives were shattered." "Witness to the Truth" will be held at the Wiesenthal Center's Museum... |
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