Witness Sentence Examples

Did you get to witness the birth?

No one is forcing you to witness that stuff!

Mary showed up one morning in time to witness that fact.

Maybe he's in some witness protection program.

So far, she hadn't been there to witness any of her foals being born yet.

This sort of thing is usually done via the witness protection program but I once heard of a situation where fake papers were assembled independent of any government agency.

A principal witness for the charge of incest was Rochford's own wife, a woman of infamous character, afterwards executed for complicity in the intrigues of Catherine Howard.

She watched them go, startled to witness the men in Western uniforms that Elise had claimed to see.

He might witness something really exciting!

If you come under attack, you'll need an alternate identity... something similar to witness protection.

Unfortunately, we didn't learn of the murder until a week after it occurred, making it impossible for Howie to "witness" the scene.

I'm a witness in his car and the state guys were in Lydia's vehicle.

She didn't dare turn around, not certain she'd be able to witness Toni throwing herself at Xander without laughing at him.

God, he was so cute about it—wanting to know if you were a witness, asking all kinds of questions about what you saw and heard.

Spring will be too late to witness the kidding.

Sensational evidence of a mock burial was given by an American witness named Caldwell, and others; but eventually it was agreed that the grave at Highgate should be opened.

Many came to witness the new wonder, and the excitement and interest spread rapidly.

Many of the notes and essays written by him at Auxonne bear witness to his indomitable resolve to master all the details of his profession and the chief facts relating to peoples who had struggled successfully to achieve their liberation.

While stroking her hair, he spoke softly, "My name is Jackson Parrish, and as God is my witness, I will do all in my power to correct this situation."

Thinking about all the times he nursed her through heartache, she now realized how difficult it must have been for him to witness her pain.

To cause loss of liberty or property by false witness was punished by the penalty the perjurer sought to bring upon another.

She may be a witness, and her testimony does not need corroboration.

The characteristic triliteral roots of all the Semitic languages seemed to separate them widely from others; but certain traits have caused the Egyptian, Berber and Cushite groups to be classed together as three subfamilies of a Hamitic group, remotely related to the Semitic. The biliteral character of Coptic, and the biliteralism which was believed to exist in Egyptian, led philologists to suspect that Egyptian might be a surviving witness to that far-off stage of the Semitic languages when triliteral roots had not yet been formed from presumed original biliterals; Sethes investigations, however, prove that the Coptic biliterals are themselves derived from Old Egyptian triliterals, and that the triliteral roots enormously preponderated in Egyptian of the earliest known form; that view is, therefore, no longer tenable.

And so the Scotsmen fell back upon the witness of consciousness.

But ten years afterwards, in the exhibition of 1872, which was specially devoted to cotton, a few only of the thirty-five countries which had sent their samples in 1862 again appeared, and these for the most part only to bear witness to disappointment and failure.

The first English paper was the Natal Witness, started in 1845 and still one of the leading organs of public opinion.

His work was mainly, though not exclusively, electrical, and his services were in great demand as an expert witness in patent cases.

In Egypt, however, no traces have at present been found of the industry in a rudimentary condition, and the vases which have been classified as " primitive " bear witness to an elaboration of technique far in advance of the experimental period.

On the other hand, the tendency to maintain peace naturally takes its course towards the strongest ruler, the king, and we witness in Anglo-Saxon law the gradual evolution of more and more stringent and complete rules in respect of the king's peace and its infringements.

Glas's published works bear witness to his vigorous mind and scholarly attainments.

Marco Polo is witness that there were Nestorian churches all along the trade routes from Bagdad to Pekin.

Men and women of all ranks began to visit it; the emperor himself consented (f 887) to witness a performance by the great stars of the stage at the private residence of Marquis Inouye; a dramatic reform association was organized by a number of prominent noblemen and scholars; drastic efforts were made to purge the old historical dramas of anachronisms and inconsistencies, and at length a theatre (the Yurabu-za) was built on purely European lines, where instead of sitting from morning to night witnessing one long-drawn-out drama with interludes of whole farces, a visitor may devote only a few evening-hours to the pastime.

He was the first pope to date his acts according to the years of the Frankish monarchy, and a mosaic of the time in the Lateran palace represents St Peter bestowing the banners upon Charles as a token of temporal supremacy, while the coinage issued by the pope bears witness to the same idea.

In 1860 Mr Hussey reported (Zool., p. 7144) the average annual captures near Worthing to exceed 11,000 dozens - nearly all being cockbirds; and a witness before a committee of the House of Commons in 1873 stated that, when a boy, he could take forty 1 The more common German name, however, is Distelfink (ThistleFinch) or Stieglitz.

To the visitor from Europe the attraction of Tunis lies in the native city, where, in the Rue al Jezira, along which runs electric trams, he can see hundreds of camels in the morning bearing charcoal to market; where he may witness the motley life of the bazaars, or, by the Bab-Jedid, watch the snake-charmers and listen to the Moorish storytellers.

But even here Ultramontanism gained ground and derived inestimable assistance from the blunders of government after government - witness the conflict of the Prussian administration with Archbishop Droste-Vischering.

In Italy Houdon had lived in the presence of that second Renaissance with which the name of Winckelmann is associated, and the direct and simple treatment of the Morpheus which he sent to the Salon of 1771 bore witness to its influence.

On the 17th of August 1805 the dam of the canal of Cairo was to be cut, and some chiefs of Mehemet Alis party wrote, informing them that he would go forth early on that morning with most of his troops to witness the ceremony, inviting them to enter and seize the city, and, to deceive them, stipulating for a certain sum of money as a reward.

Particularly is this so as regards the question of authorship. As Harnack observes (Lukas der Arzt, p. 24), the" miraculous " or supernormal ele ment is hardly, if at all, less marked in the " we " sections, which are substantially the witness of a companion of Paul (and where efforts to dissect out the miracles are fruitless), than in the rest of the work.

This appears, on the one hand, in the use of expressions having a Modalistic ring about them - see especially the poems of Commodian, written about the time of Valerian - and, on the other hand, in the rejection of the doctrine that the Son is subordinate to the Father and is a creature (witness the controversy between Dionysius of Alexandria and Dionysius of Rome), as well as in the readiness of the West to accept the formula of Athanasius, that the Father and the Son are one and the same in substance (O,uoou6coc).

Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.

Bartolome de las Casas, the celebrated bishop of Chiapa, accompanied Ovando to Haiti, and was a witness of the cruelties from which the Indians suffered under his administration.

When adjacent burial areas belonged to members of the same Christian confraternity, or by gift or purchase fell into the same hands, communications were opened between the respective cemeteries, which thus spread laterally, and gradually acquired that enormous extent which, " even when their fabulous dimensions are reduced to their right measure, form an immense work."' This could only be executed by a large and powerful Christian community unimpeded by legal enactments or police regulations, " a living witness of its immense development corresponding to the importance of the capital."

The date of his death is given by Nepos as 468; at any rate he lived to witness the ostracism of Themistocles, towards whom he always displayed a generous conduct, but had died before the rise of Pericles.

The shores of all the lakes which filled the depressions during the Lacustrine period abound in remains dating from the Neolithic Stone period; and numberless kurgans (tumuli), furnaces and so on bear witness to a much denser population than the present.

The colloquy of Erasmus De sacerdotiis captandis bears witness to the same state of things.

Hallam maintains that the only overt act of treason proved against Russell was his concurrence in the project of a rising at Taunton, which he denied, and which, Ramsay being the only witness, was not sufficient to warrant a conviction.

In the first, John describes how the Baptist, on Jesus' approach, cries " Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of, the world "; and how he says " I saw the spirit descending upon Him, and I bore witness that this is the Son of God."

Impressive as is their witness to the persistence of the Apostolic teaching in its essential features, amidst all personal and local variations, perhaps the most striking thing about these writings is the degree in which they fail to appreciate certain elements of the Apostolic teaching as embodied in the New Testament, and those its higher and more distinctively Christian elements.'

To this principle Marcion's Pauline Canon is a witness, though in too one-sided a spirit.

In 1894 the queen stayed for some weeks at Florence, and on her return she stopped at Coburg to witness the marriage between two of her grandchildren, the grand duke of Hesse and the Princess Victoria Melita of Coburg.

Whilst all who approached the queen bore witness to her candour and reasonableness in relation to her ministers, all likewise proclaimed how anxiously she considered advice that was submitted to her before letting herself be persuaded that she must accept it for the good of her people.

Letizia lived to witness the glory and the downfall of her great son, surviving Napoleon I.

Sidney conducted his case throughout with great skill; he pointed especially to the fact that Lord Howard, whose character he easily tore to shreds, was the only witness against him as to treason, whereas the law required two, that the treason was not accurately defined, that no proof had been given that the papers produced were his, and that, even if that were proved, these papers were in no way connected with the charge.

Ignatius bears witness to the presence in various Churches of Asia Minor of a single bishop in control, with whom are associated as his subordinates a number of elders and deacons.

Master of the province of Oran, he crossed the Shelif at the appeal of the natives, the people flocking to witness his progress as that of an emperor.

The text of this MS. is important as the oldest and best witness in a Greek MS. to the so-called " Western " text.

It is probably the best extant witness to the type of Greek text which was in use in Italy at an early time.

Rendel Harris argued for the influence of Latin, and Chase for that of Syriac. While both threw valuable light on obscure points, it seems probable that they exaggerated the extent to which retranslation can be traced; that they ranked Codex Bezae somewhat too highly as the best witness to the " Western " text; and that some of their work was rendered defective by their failure to recognize quite clearly that the " Western " text is not a unity.

The earliest witness, indeed, who can be cited for a definite date for the crucifixion gave not 29, but 33 A.D.

As an advocate his sharpness and rapidity of insight gave him a formidable advantage in the detection of the weaknesses of a witness and the vulnerable points of his opponent's case, while he grouped his own arguments with an admirable eye to effect, especially excelling in eloquent closing appeals to a jury.

The orderliness of Old Testament worship bears a like witness; everything is duly fixed by God; high priests, priests and Levites, and the people in the people's place.

The name of Nineveh (Syriac Ninwe; Arabic Ninawa, Nunawa) continued, even in the middle ages, to be applied to a site opposite Mosul on the east bank of the Tigris, where huge mounds and the traces of an ancient city wall bore witness of former greatness.

A story is told that de Courci when imprisoned in the Tower volunteered to act as champion for King John in single combat against a knight representing Philip Augustus of France; that when he appeared in the lists his French opponent fled in panic; whereupon de Courci, to gratify the French king's desire to witness his prowess, "cleft a massive helmet in twain at a single blow," a feat for which he was rewarded by a grant of the privilege for himself and his heirs to remain covered in the presence of the king and all future sovereigns of England.

Under the rules adopted, the examination of witnesses is conducted by the president in accordance with the system prevailing in most continental countries; members of the commission may only put questions to witnesses for the eliciting of further information; and they may not interrupt the witness when he is in course of making his statement, but they may ask the president to put any additional questions.

If a witness answers truly all questions which he is required by the court to answer, he is entitled to receive a certificate of indemnity, which will save him from all proceedings for any offence under the Corrupt Practices Acts committed by him before the date of the certificate at or in relation to the election, except proceedings to enforce any incapacity incurred by such offence.

Even so More would have been acquitted, when at the last moment Rich, the solicitorgeneral, quitted the bar and presented himself as a witness for the Crown.

The actual church is always falling short of its profession; but its successive reformations witness to the strength of its longing after the beauty of holiness.

As has been well said, " the church is primarily a witness - the strength of its authority lies in the many sides from which the witness comes."

When that life is exhibited, as it ought to be, in its distinctively heavenly character, it bears witness to the presence of a power in Christian men which no mere recollection of a past example, however heroic or beautiful, The Conception of Priesthood, p. 29.

Bignon, after a short imprisonment at the hands of the allies, returned to France in time to witness the downfall of Napoleon.

Other places had been honoured by the presence and preaching of these great leaders of new-born Christianity; but it is at Rome that they had borne witness to the Gospel by the shedding of their blood; there they were buried, and their tombs were known and honoured.

In many points, especially his great nepotism - witness the promotion of the worthless Pier Luigi Farnesehe remained, even as pope, a true child of the Renaissance period in which he had risen to greatness.

English procedure, however, being litigious, and not, like continental European procedure, inquisitorial, in its character, the expert soon became, and still is, simply a witness to speak to matters of opinion.

In Scotland, medical and other scientific reports are lodged in process before the trial, and the witness reads them as part of his evidence and is liable to be examined or cross-examined on their contents.

The only biographical evidence of his closing years is his signature as a witness to sundry deeds in the "Register of Aberdeen" as late as 1392.

Modern travellers bear witness to a gradual progress of desiccation in the Tibetan uplands.

By his tact, equity, and Christian charity, Sigismund endeared himself even to those who differed most from him, as witness the readiness of the Lithuanians to elect his infant son grand-duke of Lithuania in 1522, and to crown him in 1529.

But we unite in holding that these exceptions do not invalidate the assertion of our real unity in our common witness to the Gospel of the Grace of God."

Theological colleges, normal training colleges and higher and lower grade schools bear witness to an activity and a success which are truly remarkable.

Tears, dejection and passionate expressions of a despair "wishing only for death," bore fitful and variable witness to her first sense of a heavier yoke than yet had galled her spirit and her pride.

That she was at length taken in her own toils even such a dullard as her admirers depict her could not have failed to understand; that €he was no such dastard as to desire or deserve such defenders the whole brief course of her remaining life bore consistent and irrefragable witness.

The Brethren started a periodical, The Christian Witness, continued from 1849 as The Present Testimony, with Harris as editor and Darby as the most important contributor.

But the opposition subsided somewhat on the publication of Tsar Nicholas's congratulations to the king on his engagement and of his acceptance to act as the principal witness at the wedding.

The pamphlet is supposed to have been written by Chrysostomus Dudulaeus of Westphalia and printed by one Christoff Crutzer, but as no such author or printer is known at this time - the latter name indeed refers directly to the legend - it has been conjectured that the whole story is a myth invented to support the Protestant contention of a continuous witness to the truth of Holy Writ in the person of this "eternal" Jew; he was to form, in his way, a counterpart to the apostolic tradition of the Catholic Church.

The source of all these reports of an ever-living witness of the crucifixion is probably Matthew xvi.

In England, besides the ballads in Percy's Reliques, William Godwin introduced the idea of an eternal witness of the course of civilization in his St Leon (1799),(1799), and his son-in-law Shelley introduces Ahasuerus in his Queen Mab.

The entry speaks of seven hedged enclosures, and there is evidence of fortification in the 13th century, to which the names Jordangate, Chestergate and Wallgate still bear witness.

During the trial of the ex-ministers, in December, he was summoned as a witness, and paid a tribute to the character of his former colleagues which, under the circumstances, argued no little courage.

The Mazurs are distinguished from the Poles by their lower stature, broad shoulders and massive frame, and still more by their national dress, which has nothing of the smartness of that of the southern Poles, and by their ancient customs; they have also a dialect of their own, containing many words now obsolete in Poland, and several grammatical forms bearing witness to Lithuanian influence.

Her fragments also bear witness to a profound feeling for the beauty of nature.

These bear witness to reality, not because we feel anything now, but because we felt it once; they are sensations registered in language, and again, if need be, translatable into immediate sensations or groups of sensation.

This latter acquisition is the principal object of warping, and it excites astonishment to witness how soon a new soil may be formed.

It appears that Peter did not stay with the disciples and neither returned home immediately to Galilee (according to the Galilean tradition) nor sought hiding in Jerusalem (according to the Jerusalem tradition), but followed the Lord at a distance and was a witness of at least part of the trial before the Sanhedrim.

The earliest witness to a residence of Peter in Rome is probably I Peter, for (see Peter, Epistles Of) it is probable that the reference to Babylon ought to be interpreted as meaning Rome.

The earliest direct witness is Tertullian, who definitely states that Peter suffered under Nero by crucifixion.

On the contrary, weapons are seldom found, at any rate in graves, the objects in which bear witness to a life of extraordinary luxury.

The witness of the Arianizing Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum (c. 400) is in general similar.

In the bosom of medieval society they were the last witness to a state of things that the regular development of Catholic cult had amplified and modified.

Cotton and rubber are found in considerable quantities, and fields of maize, corn, rice and sugarcane bear witness to the fertility of the soil.

The antrustions, belonging as they did to one body, had strictly defined duties towards one another; thus one antrustion was forbidden to bear witness against another under penalty of 15 solidi compensation.

In1868-1870he was Boyle lecturer (The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ), in 1873 Hulsean lecturer (The Gospel its Own Witness), in 1874 Bampton Lecturer (The Religion of the Christ) and from 1876 to 1880 Warburtonian lecturer.

His monuments are widespread in Egypt, the quarries and mines in the desert as far as Sinai bear witness to his great activity, and we know of an expedition which he made against the Nubians.

His laws to this end were engraved on a great stela in the temple of Karnak, of which sufficient remains to bear witness to his high aims, while the prosperity of the succeeding reigns shows how well he realized the necessities of the state.

The year 1681 seemed likely to witness another civil war.

Slavonic place-names, still existing in every portion of the Peninsula, bear witness to the multitude of the invaders and the permanency of their settlements.

For nearly thirty years he continued actively engaged in the promotion of his undertaking, and he lived to witness its wide extension throughout England.

Europe bears witness to recent submergence.

Many of his colleagues bear witness to his generosity and magnanimity, but as a general principle he certainly lacked the wider humanity.

Owen was probably born about 1359, studied law at Westminster, was squire to the earl of Arundel, and a witness for Grosvenor in the famous Scrope and Grosvenor lawsuit in 1386.

A grant, dated by Birch about 725, is made by Nunna to Eadberht, bishop of Selsey, and to this too "Uuattus" appears as a witness.

Offa also appears as witness to two charters of an ZEthelberht, king of the South Saxons, and in 772 he grants land himself in Sussex, with Oswald, dux of the South Saxons, as a witness.

It derived wealth from great salines and from a trade in oil and wool, to which the wide range of its admirable coinage bears witness from the 5th century B.C. onwards.

This witness of John holds a position of high importance in this Gospel.

It is a witness delivered to a hostile audience, whether they will hear or no.

Possibly he means to insist on the advantages of country life over life in the city; if this be so, the paragraph bears witness to the prominence of the latter.

You saw a plain, old-fashioned face, without life or lustre - a figure which had never looked young, and was now prematurely aged; the furrowed face bore witness to concentrated thought.

She lived just long enough to witness the fulfilment of her great wish, a rule such as she desired being approved by the pope two days before her death on the 11th of August 1253.

Papal legates to Germany seldom failed to visit the university and by their magnificence bore witness to the majesty of the Roman church.

He posted up a notice inviting the Wittenberg students to witness the burning of the bull (loth of December 1520).

To ignore or to obscure the features which are opposed to these ideas would be to ignore the witness of external evidence and to obscure the old Testament itself.

The importance of such documents for the scientific historian lies not so much in the events they record as in the unconscious witness they bear to the state of society in which the narrator or poet lived.

The numerous objects of bronze and other metals brought to light by the excavations in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, though mostly on a small scale, bear witness to the great skill and artistic power of the people who produced them; while the discovery of some bronze statuettes, shown by inscriptions on them to be not later than 2200 B.C., proves how early was the development of this branch of art among the people of Assyria.

A reading supported by only one recension he considered as having only one witness in its favour; those readings which were supported by all the three recensions, or even by two of them, especially if these two were the Alexandrian and the Western, he unhesitatingly accepted as genuine.

That this has for centuries been regarded as the main route northward from Kabul, the Buddhist relics of Bamian and Haibak bear silent witness; but it may be doubted whether Abdur Rahman's talent for roadmaking has not opened out better alternative lines.

The historians who chronicled his march, and the Greek ambassador Megasthenes, who succeeded them (300 B.C.) in their literary labours, bear witness to the predominance of the old faith in the period immediately preceding Asoka.

This work, along with another against Deism, entitled The Gospel its own Witness, is regarded as the production on which his reputation as a theologian mainly rests.

The speech against Vatinius was an attack upon a witness under examination; that de Domo was made before the Pontifices; that pro C. Rabirio perduellionis reo in the course of a provocatio to the people; and those pro Ligario and pro rege Deiotaro before Caesar.

His father, who in his concealment was a witness of what was taking place, thereupon gave himself up, stipulating that he and his son should be executed at the same time.

The adducing of a witness for which he uses the verb is not an idea that covers all the uses.

From time to time Madame Blavatsky's numerous friends and associates were allowed to witness the manifestations of "occult phenomena," which she averred were the outcome of her connexion with these "Mahatmas."

On the 13th of June 1545, she was arraigned as a sacramentarian under the Six Articles at the Guildhall; but no witness appeared against her; she was declared not guilty by the jury and discharged after paying her fees.

In these circumstances, President McKinley, accompanied by the greater part of his cabinet, set forth in the early summer on a tour to visit the Pacific coast, where he was to witness the launching of the battleship "Ohio" at San Francisco.

But as it was deemed inadvisable to allow him to visit the Punjab, he remained for some time as a guest at the residency at Aden, and was allowed to receive some of his relatives to witness his abjuration of Christianity, which actually took place within the residency itself.

These and other cases in which we are led to discern very primitive witness behind Acts, do not indeed give to such witness the value of shorthand notes or even of abstracts based thereon.

The like must be said even of the contribution to the problem made by August Pott,' though he has helped to define one condition of success - the classification of the strata in " Western " texts - and has taken some steps in the right direction, in connexion with the complex phenomena of one witness, the Harklean Syriac.

The nature of the readings themselves, and the distribution of the witness for them, alike point to a process involving several stages and several originating centres of diffusion.

Amol is not walled and is now a place of little importance, but in and around it there are ruins and ancient buildings which bear witness to its former greatness.

Yet we may say that the 5th century did witness the actual dismemberment of the Roman Empire.

But here again we find that they bear witness to Homer.

But it was reserved for the 17th century to witness the flower and fruit time of this powerful art in the work of Porbus, Rubens and Vandyck, in the Dutch schools of landscape and home-life, and in the unique masterpieces of Rembrandt.

A new witness was wanted to support Oates's story, and in November a man named William Bedloe came forward.

Not even so, however, did their witness agree together, so, as a bold stroke, Oates, with great circumstantiality, accused the queen before Charles of high treason.

For the next three or four centuries there is little to note but the continual evidence of open or secret resistance to these decrees, and the parallel frequency and stringency of ecclesiastical legislation, which by its very monotony bears witness to its own want of success.

If some, and not the least essential, of these aspects are quasi-negative, it must be remembered that negations - witness the Unseen, the Unknown, the Infinite of a more advanced theology - are well adapted to supply that mystery on which the religious consciousness feeds with the slight basis of conceptual support it needs.

Contemporary writers all bear witness to her extraordinary beauty, but no genuine portraits of her have come down to us.

When they came back Spinoza was no more; he had died about three in the afternoon with Meyer as the only witness of his last moments.

Knox himself had a short time before put in writing a larger claim for the historic future, "What I have been to my country, though this unthankful age will not know, yet the ages to come will be compelled to bear witness to the truth."

From the frequency of his quotations, Aphraates is a specially important witness to the form in which the Gospels were read in the Syriac church in his day; Zahn and others have shown that he - mainly at least - used the Diatessaron.

Finally, he bears important contemporary witness to the sufferings of the Christian church in Persia under Sapor (Shapur) II.

He lived, however, to witness unparalleled vicissitudes of fortune.

Its numerous editions bear witness to its popularity, and until the final fall of Aristotle's physics it continued a popular textbook.

About his date, which is important in connexion with his witness, there is some doubt.

For nearly forty years he fought against every improvement in law, or in the constitution - calling God to witness, on the smallest proposal of reform, that he foresaw from it the downfall of his country.

Insurrections in Lisbon (1634) and Evora (1637) bore witness to the general discontent, but until 1640 the Spanish ascendancy The was never seriously endangered.

Exemption from liability to appear as a witness is often stipulated.

In the Apostolic age itself, "apostle" often denotes simply an "envoy," commissioned by Jesus Christ to be a primary witness and preacher of the Messianic Kingdom.

Paul is our earliest witness, as just cited; also in 1 Cor.

In favour of the middle date, which has, as far as recent authorities are concerned, the weight of consent in its favour, the testimony of Guy Patin (1601-1672), a witness of some merit and not too far removed in point of time, is invoked.

In this war the history of the East and West Goths begins again to unite, if we may accept the witness of one writer that Theodoric was helped by West Gothic auxiliaries.

Homer is our earliest literary witness; and the portrait that he presents of Zeus is too well known to need minute description.

But Homer we now know to be a relatively late witness in this matter.

This limitation of the professed historian is made up for by the growingly historical treatment of all the sciences and arts - a tendency noted before, to which this edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is itself a notable witness.

The numerous ancient churches and the cathedrals of Ely and Peterborough bear witness to the share taken by religious communities in the reclamation and cultivation of the land.

For to do so is to act against the law of God as spoken through Moses, the eternal duration of which is borne witness to by our Lord.

In 1734 he made himself master of Naples and Sicily by arms. Charles had, however, no military tastes, seldom wore uniform, and could with difficulty be persuaded to witness a review.

The intensity of intellectual and manual application which Leonardo threw into the work is proved by the fact that he finished it within four years, in spite of all his other avocations and of those prolonged pauses of concentrated imaginative effort and intense self-critical brooding to which we have direct contemporary witness.

Decade after decade these processes went on, a rain of minute scales and grains falling, according to one witness, continually from the surface, till the picture seemed to be perishing altogether.

In 1890 he reaped the fruits of his labours, and nine years later he was destined to witness the abrogation of the old treaties, and the substitution in their place of conventions which place Japan on terms of equality with the European states.

Thus the sectaries no less than the Mendicant orders bear witness to the existence of spiritual needs in Western Christendom, which the Mendicant orders went a long way towards satisfying.

On the shore of the Irish Sea is Leasowe Castle, once known as Mock-Beggar Hall, and supposed to have been erected by the earls of Derby in the reign of Elizabeth, in order to witness the horse-races held here.

A witness was in all cases important, and in some essential to the validity of a contract.

His status affected the force of the contract as well as the value of his evidence; and the laws appear to imply that by becoming a witness, a man incurred liabilities as a surety.

Ten days later, the plaintiff crossed the fence in upon the land, with a law agent, a witness and a pair of horses yoked or harnessed, and in a loud voice stated the amount of the debt and called upon the defendant to pay it according to law.

Under examination, he denied that he had made common cause with the anabaptists and claimed to be no prophet, a mere witness of the Most High, but refused the articles of faith proposed to him by the provincial synod.

The 13th-century jury was a rough and primitive institution, which acted at once as accuser, witness and judgebut it was at any rate preferable to the chances of the red-hot iron, or the club of the duellist.

To know John well was to loathe him, as every contemporary chronicle bears witness.

The reappearance of these old English names bears witness to the fact that the vernacular was reasserting itself.

Grum-Grshimailo found on the Pamir the butterfly Colias nastes, a species characteristic of Labrador and Lapland; like the alpine plants which bear witness to a Glacial period flora in the Himalayas, this butterfly is a survival of the Glacial period fauna of the Pamir.

Rubruquis, who visited East Turkestan in 1254, Marco Polo between 1271 and 1275, and Hois in 1680, all bore witness to great religious tolerance; but this entirely disappeared with the invasion of the Bokharian mullahs or Mahommedan priests.

The political writing, too, much of it in a garish, extravagant style, exercised his deeper ambitions, and stands as witness to the working of original thought and foresight.

The adjacent ground to the east and south is covered with foundations, bearing witness to the extent of the ancient city.

The heaps of debris which cover so many acres near Belgrade, on the Kopaonik foothills and in the Toplitsa valley bear witness to the importance of this industry in the past.

The assurance which the believer has of salvation he receives from the operation and witness of the Holy Spirit; but this again rests on the divine choice of the man to salvation; and this falls back on God's eternal sovereign purpose, whereby He has predestined some to eternal life while the rest of mankind are predestined to condemnation and eternal death.

In his later days the west Goths threw off his yoke, and, on the invasion of the Huns, rather than witness the downfall of his kingdom he is said by Ammianus Marcellinus to have committed suicide.

The earth-wrinkles of this epoch were turned into a north-easterly direction by the pre-existing Leinster Chain, and the trend of the anticlinal from Limerick to the Slieve' Bloom Mountains, and that of the synclinal of Millstone Grit and CoalMeasures from Cashel through the Leinster coalfield, bear witness to the resistance of this granite mass.

In the 4th century there was a veritable renaissance in Gaul, the Intel- last outburst of a dying flame, which yet bore witness lectual also to the general decadence.

The bloody tragedies which disfigured the end of his reign bear sad witness to this; they were a fit prelude to that period during the course of which, as Gregory of Tours said, barbarism was let loose.

As was to be expected,, an oath taken under compulsion by such a man was little binding; and the French troops were compelled to witness, with helpless indignation, the orgy of cruel reaction which immediately began under the protection of their bayonets.

A mayor of Woodstock was witness to a deed in 1398, but the earliest known charter of incorporation was that from Henry VI.

He is thus an observer, witness, and participant in the incident, and the work is then complete."

But neither can be considered an unprejudiced witness.

He left Rome only to witness the crowning triumph of Roman arms in Africa, and to gain a practical acquaintance with Roman methods of government by assisting in the settlement of Achaea.

Remembering Len's suggestion that he might be in a witness protection program, she wondered if that innocent kiss might have ultimately put Yancey in danger.

God, he was so cute about it—wanting to know if you were a witness, asking all kinds of questions about what you saw and heard.

The fact of the matter is that this witness had no idea what they were talking about.

We'd rather relish meat or butter from the local farmer - witness the boom in farmers' markets.

The man has a strong Irish accent, believed by the witness to be Southern Irish.

If it lasts for another 10,000 years, it might even witness the Advent of open government in Devon.

In witness whereof the Church Commissioners have caused their Common Seal to be hereunto affixed.

Witness tried artificial respiration for nearly an hour without avail.

Sonia, who as a witness has had to wait outside court for most of the hearing, looks ashen.

A deadly assassin, who wants to murder a prosecution witness on a plane, releases a whole crate full of vicious snakes!

In witness whereof, the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed this Convention.

The world we witness when we take ayahuasca is one of magic and mystery.

In the second case, the defense barrister had not had time to meet his witness, who was delivered late from prison.

Pevensey Castle may bear witness to a troublesome past but its current tranquility almost belies the existence of such an age.

No fingerprint, footprint, forensic, bloodstain or witness evidence has ever connected Gilbert with the crime.

At the foot of a hill, he saw a bulldozer digging what the witness presumed would be a mass grave.

Both witness to a bungled burglary, they are unknowingly being hunted by a hit man.

Our witness there must be spiritual, only thus is our help positive and therefore canonical.

The witness citation body may enter into an agreement with the police for the citation of witnesses in remote areas.

William Stobie was a key witness concerning allegations of official police collusion in the murder of Patrick Finucane.

Indeed, following the abolition of " live witness " committals, there is no advantage to the prosecution in avoiding a contested committal.

Some crematoria have a viewing area that overlooks the crematory, where you may witness the committal taking place.

This 18-track CD is a definitive compilation of the career of A Witness a distinctive guitar-driven independent group working out of mid-80s Manchester.

His own conduct with female co-workers in Christ is witness to his living out what he taught.

Nothing in holy scripture, the catholic creeds, or our historic formularies makes it necessary to go against this primal witness.

In South Asia, we were recently witness - once again - to nuclear dangers reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis.

Mr Davies, for the defense, then cross-examined the witness.

Furthermore, the recently announced £ 27m Witness Care expansion will introduce dedicated Witness Care Units across England and Wales.

There are times of mass disobedience among people who claim to be God's people [witness the Church of England at present] .

Q. Can a student Nurse act as an approved witness when administering a controlled drug?

This series boasts more amazing tales of human endurance than you'll witness in a lifetime.

To listen to her music is to bear witness to a gradual erosion of personality.

Witness the exams fiasco last year where at least Estelle Morris had the courage to stand aside.

It may also be possible to arrange for a local fire brigade crew to attend a fire drill to witness it.

The Arabs are about to witness nothing less than the invasion of the eastern flank of the Arab nation.

An immense number of people, including many of the neighboring gentry assembled to witness the event.

Then Slobo dropped the guillotine on the witness's overextended neck.

Few painters had the chance to witness scenes that would become historic, and historical knowledge was scarce, documentation fragmentary.

The local people lived in great fear and suffering, bearing witness to unspeakable horror of senseless killings and torture.

This can only impel them to bear courageous witness to that " good news " which gives meaning to their entire existence.

That witness is completely impersonal, according to Shri Atmananda.

The police investigation was not pursued as the service user was deemed incapable of appearing as a witness and his father had refused permission.

A witness described him as ' a man made entirely for God, unable to remain a single instant without God ' .

Witness had never had any trouble with the deceased, who was always very friendly with the other lodgers.

The witness panicked and threw a small matchbox at the object, which promptly vanished in plain sight.

In exile following the Revolution of 1917 Russian nobles continued to give witness to the tradition.

The Crown's star witness has also made a statement admitting perjury.

The book views Mingus as a black artist increasingly politicized by his situation, but also unreliable as a witness to his own persecution.

John Fulton attempted to purchase proprietary, technical information from a cooperating witness employed at Joy Mining Machinery.

Witness admitted he had enabled prosecutor to go to Okehampton, supplying him with tea to sell on his own account.

I am a member of the Expert Witness Institute and a member of the Faculty of forensic psychiatrists of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The future may witness the rebirth of the Arab Museum magazine.

Recent tapes in my possession of that band in rehearsal bear witness to a newly reborn power and confidence in his playing.

Later under hypnotic regression the witness was able to recall seeing a figure standing on the road then walking toward the vehicle.

Witness administered restoratives, and wanted to get a cab to take him home, but STEWARD would not let him.

The school's examination results bear witness to the high quality of education offered.

Witness statements from her husband suggest otherwise, tho he has since retracted them.

It is also causing the church to be publicly ridiculed - witness a recent article in The Mirror.

I am still, to this day, apologizing to my dear friend Pierre for dragging him out to witness such sacrilege.

In spring, witness of nesting seabirds on coastal cliffs.

When witness went on the bridge the captain was just jumping overboard to a small seaplane.

No sooner was that said than witness was knocked senseless to the ground.. ... .

The case could witness the first RAF serviceman ever to be charged with the murder of civilians.

Finally, in order to stay sober he has to witness.

Join us on a 400-mile voyage around the tip of Baja California and witness the thrilling spectacle of Gray Whales in their calving lagoons.

May we have a statement from a Home Office Minister about the guidance given to police forces on witness statements?

By exploring the diversity and creativity of British Asian music, it confounds stereotypes and inspires all those who witness the acts who perform.

A separate witness summons must be served on each witness.

Perjury A lawfully sworn witness in judicial proceedings deliberately giving false evidence.

For the purpose of validating the testator's signature, each witness must also sign the will in the presence of the testator's signature, each witness must also sign the will in the presence of the testator.

Here we look at psychological theory and methods relevant to decision making, interviewing, witness testimony within criminal justice settings.

It is well known that Luther evaluated biblical books by the degree to which they bore witness to Christ - a strictly theological criterion.

The ' witness ' concept is like a big thorn, used to remove the little thorn of petty ego.

She impressed us as an entirely trustworthy and accurate witness.

Witness gave deceased twopence saying, " Here is twopence to have a cup of tea, but don't have rum.

He behaves like a witness, completely unattached to the world.

Punctuality will be a witness, giving power and receiving unction whenever we speak the word concerning our Lord.

Donald Martin's witness box weapon of choice was pure vitriol.

Sibella takes the witness stand and gives a touching performance as the grieving widow.

All of them bear witness to a glorious past, characterized by a talent for living life to the fullest.

I just don't think he was a credible witness.

Or are they mainly called to preach what they already know, deep down, is false witness against unconformed people?

Tewkesbury Field's silent witness is more eloquent still.

He was a straightforward, consistent and reliable witness.

The tribunal began by setting out the duty owed by an expert witness.

As a prosecution witness, will I see the defendant at court?

Treated as a 92bis witness with some supplementary examination.

The reports of the accident could have been based only on eye witness accounts.

Beauty is the quality in a painting through which the artist can ' bear witness to the Light ' .

Defender's witness No 2 ROBERT L. STEVENSON, Aged 35, part-time factory worker, c/o 5 Glen Lane, Paisley.

The existence of blights and mildews of cereals had been observed and recorded in very ancient times, as witness the Bible, where half a dozen references to such scourges occur in the Old Testament alone.

The predominance of the Anglo-Burgundians in France having made it impossible for him to stay there, he went to Avignon to end his days in melancholy calculations arising from the calamities of which he had been the witness, and the astrological reckonings, in which he found pleasure, of the chances for and against the world coming to an end in the near future.

The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great "Treasury of Atreus" had borne silent witness for ages before Schliemann's time; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or at farthest a rude Heroic beginning of purely Hellenic, civilization.

Indeed, as has been seen, they appropriate the entire personale of the Bible from Adam, Seth, Abel, Enos and Pharaoh to Jesus and John, a phenomenon which bears witness to the close relations of the Mandaean doctrine both with Judaism and Christianity - not the less close because they were relations of hostility.

To this day there are many Arabic words in the vocabulary of the languages of western Europe which are a standing witness of the Crusades - words relating to trade and seafaring, like tariff and corvette, or words for musical instruments, like lute or the Elizabethan word "naker."

The Christian Endeavour movement in Great Britain derives, perhaps, its greatest force from its Primitive Methodist members; and the appointment of central missions, connexional evangelists and mission-vans, which tour the more sparsely populated rural districts, witness to a continuance of the original spirit of the denomination, while the more cultured side is fostered by the Hartley lecture.

In 1890 he succeeded Count Herbert Bismarck as Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Caprivi chancellorship and continued to hold that office under Prince von Hohenlohe; but he had incurred the enmity of Prince Bismarck by refusing his advice when he first assumed office, and the result was a fierce press campaign against him which finally obliged him to speak out when he appeared as a witness at the trial of certain journalists in 1896 for lese-majeste.

None of these aims were attained; for the trial, which turned on the evidence of the police spy Nastic (already chief witness in the doubtful Cettinje bomb trial of 1908) degenerated into a public scandal, owing to the conduct of the judges and public prosecutor, and rallied Croat public opinion in defence of the S3 Serb victims. Serbo-Croat solidarity became still more apparent when the Austrian historian Dr. Friedjung, in the Neue Freie Presse of March 25 1909, openly charged the leaders of the Serbo-Croat coalition with being in the pay of Serbia.

The details defy at present any clear interpretation, but the incorporation of the fragment may be due in general to the emphasis it lays on the faithful witness, martyrdom and resurrection of the saints.

Outwardly the Reformation would seem to have begun when, on the 10th of December 1520, a professor in the university of Wittenberg invited all the friends of evangelical truth among his students to assemble outside the wall at the ninth hour to witness a pious spectacle the burning of the " godless book of the papal ecclesiastical state of which the bishop of Rome was head.

Yet the divergent uses that have been made of it witness to the ambiguity of his statement which is traceable to the fact that Kant was himself too deeply rooted in the thought of his predecessors and carried with him too much of their spirit to be able entirely to free himself from their assumptions and abstractions.

Years afterwards, he pretended that he had only signed the "devise" as a witness, but in his apology to Queen Mary he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay stress on the extent to which he succeeded in shifting the responsibility on to the shoulders of his brother-in-law, Sir John Cheke, and other friends, and on his intrigues to frustrate the queen to whom he had sworn allegiance.

The 24th of November falling on a Sunday, his clerical duties threatened fatally to clash with his astronomical observations; he was, however, released just in time to witness the punctual verification of his forecast, and carefully noted the progress of the phenomenon during half an hour before sunset (3.15 to 3.45).

Not without nervous dread - witness the special taboo to which the leader of society is subject - he draws near and strives to constrain, conciliate or cajole the awful forces with which the life of the group is set about.

To that age the traditions preserved at Dodona bore witness; and the designations of special groups like the / Ay07Toc, Owl lrpaEuliKac, or, possibly, the Venerable Goddesses (Nat, aE,uvai) of Athens, point to a mode of thought when the divine Powers were not definitely individualized.

The long line of Chian sculptors (see Greek Art) in marble bears witness to the fame of Chian art.

Next year the great tragic poem of Torquemada came forth to bear witness that the hand which wrote Ruy Blas had lost nothing of its godlike power and its matchless cunning, if the author of Le Roi s'amuse had ceased to care much about coherence of construction from the theatrical point of view as compared with the perfection of a tragedy designed for the devotion of students not unworthy or incapable of the study; that his command of pity and terror, his powers of intuition and invention, had never been more absolute and more sublime; and that his infinite and illimitable charity of imagination could transfigure even the most monstrous historic representative of Christian or Catholic diabolatry into the likeness of a terribly benevolent and a tragically magnificent monomaniac. Two years later Victor Hugo published the third and concluding series of La Legende des siecles.

Then he solemnly took the estates to witness, as he stood there "in the sight of the Almighty," that he had begun hostilities "out of no lust for war, as many will certainly devise and imagine," but in self-defence and to deliver his fellow-Christians from oppression.

The whole company can bear witness.

We 'd rather relish meat or butter from the local farmer - witness the boom in farmers ' markets.

The school 's examination results bear witness to the high quality of education offered.

A spontaneous amphitheater developed to witness the rivalry between nations.

We rise early to witness the unforgettable sight of saffron robed monks collecting alms from local people at dawn.

In their case, the single life is a witness to the sanctity of marriage.

Division and schism within the church bring no honor to anyone, and they greatly weaken our Christian witness to the world.

The physical presence of the witness is essential for an adequate assessment of the sincerity conditions of her oral statements.

And witness also the particular brand of British snobbery attached to exactly which supermarket you choose.

We have yet to witness the evolution of the scientific Sociological Jesuit.

They will be able to take in the wonderful views and wildlife as they witness the park in full springtime bloom.

Modern football stadia can be soul-less concrete boxes at the best of times - witness Oxford 's Kassam Stadium.

Stereotyping, prejudice and judging others are incompatible with Christian witness.

In 1829 Smith was subpoenaed as a witness in a bankruptcy case, as described below in a newspaper report.

For the purpose of validating the testator 's signature, each witness must also sign the will in the presence of the testator.

As a chaplain, I was asked to testify as a character witness for a forty year old man on remand.

President Milosevic finished the cross-examination of the secret witness testifying under the pseudonym of C-47.

He would also witness the strange Light shining like a great star, and he would tremble with fear.