Examples of witness

• If you haven't got a witness, you haven't got a leg to stand on.

• One by one the witnesses narrated the sequence of events which led up to the disaster.

• The document was signed in the presence of two witnesses.

• New witnesses have cast doubt on some of the evidence that sent the 19 year old to the gallows.

• She bore witness to his patience and diligence.

• I've never witnessed such extremes of wealth and poverty.

• Recent years have witnessed a growth in religious fundamentalism.

• What we are witnessing is the country's slow slide into anarchy.

• His face registered extreme disapproval of what he had witnessed.

• It was a terrible thing to witness.

• As a matter of principle, it was the spouses who were supposed to bring forward the witnesses to their nuptials.

• However, something extremely unlikely happens : those who witness the event do not wonder at it at all.

• He visited rural villages and witnessed how the different groups lived in close proximity to one another.

• The passages might even be seen - despite their preservation as written texts - to provide a unique witness to the improvisatory practices of oral poets.

• Thus, the eighteenth century witnessed neither an economic nor a monetary crisis.

• I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable.

• The defence attacks the second witness claim by pointing out the corroborative evidence that the witness is biased (17).

• Cases and controls were similar on all demographic variables, school performance, number of attacks witnessed and psychopathology before the onset of the epidemic.

• Those that had witnessed a corrupt act also expressed more willingness to take part in political activism.

• These committed essays, of course, bear witness to important issues, even if they do not always illuminate them.

• Witness the ways in which, in most countries, public discourse has accommodated environmental or feminist rhetoric without thereby losing its distinctive national character.

• First, the re-opening of the site promises all the sensational imagery witnessed in the 1960s with improved archaeological technologies of the 1990s.

• He refers, for example, to 'ethnographic witnessing ' which has a connotation of superiority associated with religion.

• As the articles in this issue bear witness, such refined description of specific cases is already underway.

• The end of the millennium would witness the twilight of the social model and its institutional manifestation, the welfare state.