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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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oath
...especially a solemn one involving an appeal to God to witness the truth of the pledge. In a corporal oath, usually taken...person before giving evidence in a court of law, a witness swears to the truth of a statement. Giving false evidence under oath... |
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Social Science
...the relevant facts. Expert witnesses testify on the basis of their...inquiries. Scientists, as expert witnesses, provide two types of testimony...examination—ad hominem attacks, witness bullying, cutting answers short...discredit, and embarrass witnesses ... |
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Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
...Court. While distributing religious pamphlets for Jehovah's Witnesses, Chaplinsky attracted a hostile crowd. When a city marshal intervened...ideas nor possessed any “social value” in the search for truth (pp. 571–572). This two‐tier approach retains importance... |
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Fifth Amendment
...See Double Jeopardy), and from being compelled “to be a witness against himself” in any criminal case. In addition to these...designed to protect the innocent and to further the search for truth. In Tehan v. United States ex rel. Shott (1966), the Court... |
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Lady Chatterleys Lover
...baby's parentage, but returns and tells her husband the truth, spurred on by the knowledge that Mellors's estranged wife...authors (including E. M. Forster and R. Hoggart) appeared as witnesses for the defence, a victory which had a profound effect on... |
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BBC
...special ‘War Reporting Unit’ had been formed to supply eye-witness accounts of the fighting in Normandy and later elsewhere in north...genuinely was the BBC. The commitment of these bulletins to the truth, slanted though it was by the need to sustain morale, probably... |
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Chafee, Zechariah, Jr
...to set a national policy that would encourage a search for truth yet maintain a balance of social and individual interests. Chafee...himself into the early 1940s cases involving the Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal to have their children participate in a compulsory... |
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truth
...formula of the oath taken by witnesses in court.truth will out...murder will out.)what is truth? in biblical allusion...saith unto him, What is truth?’See also children and fools tell the truth, four noble truths, the ... |
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witness
...under oath, or otherwise: in witness thereof, the parties sign...told us of faithful Christian witness by many in his country. 3. a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. • v. 1. [tr.] see...vulnerable institution—witness the rates of marital breakdown...God as ... |
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vouch
vouch cite as witness XIV; guarantee the truth of XVI; be surety or witness for XVII. — OF. vo(u)cher summon, invoke, claim, obscurely repr. L. vocāre call. So voucher summoning of a person into court to prove a title XVI; piece... |
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crack
...open his door. ∎ fig. give way or cause to give way under torture, pressure, or strain: [intr.] the witnesses cracked and the truth came out | [tr.] no one can crack them—they believe their story. ∎ [intr.] (crack up) inf... |
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Anubhāvi-guru
Anubhāvi-guru (Skt.). The guru who is witness of the highest truth, because he has direct experience of it. |
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oath(s)
...that a person, especially a witness in court, shall tell the truth. Oaths were part of Israelite...punishment is expected if the truth is distorted—it is profanation...expedients belied relationships of truth and love (Matt. 5: 34... |
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Scholasticism
...attaining what the scholastics saw as the inner truth to which in the end all these texts bore witness. The method was originally a teaching device...questioning is the key to the perception of truth, (2) that differences which arise in questioning... |
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resurrection of Jesus
...depends on the evidence of the earliest witness available to us: Paul. In 1 Cor. 15...which was the living testimony to the truth of Jesus' resurrection. His own experience...support the existing belief based on the witnesses to the appearances. The gospels have too ... |
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Islam
...quest of Muḥammad to find the absolute truth of God in the midst of the many conflicting...aspect of life should become an act of witness that ‘there is no God but God’ and that...latter affirmations, making up the basic witness (al-Shahāda), form the first of... |
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oath
...solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behavior...sworn declaration that one will tell the truth, esp. in a court of law. 2. a profane...under oath having sworn to tell the truth, esp. in a court of law. |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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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