0 present participle of cross-examine
1 to ask detailed questions of someone, especially a witness in a trial, in order to discover if they have been telling the truth
First, the data are highly subjective, since data were collected only from one spouse without cross-examining the attitudes of the other partner.
The burden of calling witnesses, cross-examining the defendant and his witnesses and presenting a reasonable case fell to the complainant, although elders at times asked questions of witnesses and litigants.
As such, although witnesses typically have their own counsels present under cross-examination, it is relatively unusual for those lawyers to raise objections to the questions of the cross-examining lawyer.
As stated above, much work on courtroom discourse has focused on the means by which cross-examining lawyers use questions to impose a particular version of events on evidence.
The applicant has to face the members of the tribunal, and they themselves have to do the cross-examining.
There was no giving of evidence, leading of evidence or cross-examining of evidence.
I have seen female inspectors cross-examining managers of big firms, and, frankly, it looked ridiculous.
Obviously we cannot at this stage go on cross-examining each other.
