Sentences with phrase «as eyewitness»

For over fifteen years, she has had continuous funding (over $ 1.7 million) from the National Science Foundation for her research applying social psychology to the investigation of legal issues such as eyewitness identification, jury decision - making, and scientific evidence.

But remember, the preponderance of the evidence standard is relatively low and you can present other evidence, such as eyewitness testimony and photographs of the accident scene.

GJEL Accident Attorneys worked with expert medical consultants familiar with this specialized diagnosis, as well as an eyewitness, GJEL Accident Attorneys obtained $ 100,000 for this client.

Trauma is more likely to be suffered when the traumatic event is experienced firsthand (including as an eyewitness), although learning that a traumatic event has happened to someone close to you can also be traumatic.

As an eyewitness to the oligarch's execution by garrote, she's left with two, unequally unpalatable choices: death or Sparrow School (aka «whore school») where she'll undergo training in the art of seduction (also, lock - picking, via montage).

Language: Korean Genre: Crime / Drama MPAA rating: NR Director: Chul - soo Jang Actors: Yeong - hie Seo, Seong - won Ji, Min - ho Hwang Plot: A successful woman in Seoul finds herself overburdened at work and caught up as an eyewitness to a murder, returns to a small island from her past for rest.

But for the grace of God I was slated to be one of them but for the timely intervention of my cousins on my mother's side who were non-Igbo and a friend of my elder brother, a sergeant major and a nurse in the Nigerian army, they made it possible for me as a eyewitness to begin to tell the story of those whose human and civil rights had been violently taken from them.

His conviction is derived from the account of someone he described as an eyewitness to the incident he suggested was credible.

For a fresh vantage point on the whole «real» Jesus issue, I recommend the book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony, by Richard Bauckham.

Regardless, his birth date puts him out of range as an eyewitness account.

Our own evidence pieced together as eyewitnesses was a total contradiction of the government's falsehoods.

As eyewitnesses created texts out of observed and remembered miracles, texted miracles in turn become materials for imagination that pushed well beyond what was given or intended even in the text.

Whatever the answer, we considered it our duty, as eyewitnesses, to let the world know about Nazi inhumanity and the sufferings of the Jewish people.

What many prophets and righteous men of old desired to see, the disciples and multitudes of people could witness to as eyewitnesses (Matthew 13:17).

This story is still developing, as eyewitnesses give differing accounts from the police and none of the officers involved were wearing bodycams.

Your attorney will line up expert witnesses and medical professionals, as well as eyewitnesses, in addition to filing the necessary paperwork on your behalf.

Request contact information from all passengers in the vehicles involved, as well as eyewitnesses.

«If anyone else saw the accident, ask for their names and contact information so they can act as eyewitnesses if they agree to it,» Kariotis says.

Not exact matches

Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users had identified him in one of the eyewitness videos — clearly not involved in the shooting — even as the police message was being retweeted tens of thousands of times, and TV news channels were still calling him a suspect.

If, as several eyewitnesses have claimed, a flight attendant «insisted» that the dog's owner, Catalina Robledo, needed to store the pet in an overhead bin, why didn't the passenger object more fervently or get off the plane?

I will trust the 4 gospels in the NT as they were written soon after Jesus time, by eyewitness and is the truth.

Russ Bauckham uses the Gospels themselves as internal evidence of their own eyewitness accounts but, if you're willing to accept the Gospels as trustworthy by their own declaration and you're easily impressed by the force of the author's argument alone then it might be compelling.

so we are left to deal with these firsthand accounts as they really are: eyewitnesses.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

Besides, much eyewitness evidence is highly unreliable, as demonstrated by the hundreds of death row inmates who, in recent decades, they're convicted by eyewitness testimony and later exonerated by DNA analysis.

Mark served as a scribe for Peter and Luke painstakingly interviewed numerous eyewitnesses.

As Marc Bloch once observed, before the rise of critical history, three - fourths of all reports of alleged eyewitnesses were accepted as facAs Marc Bloch once observed, before the rise of critical history, three - fourths of all reports of alleged eyewitnesses were accepted as facas fact.

As for «eyewitness testimony» that's suspect.

I prefer to take as more reliable the actual eyewitnesses to the life and ministry of Jesus, those who saw Him with their eyes, heard Him with their ears, and touched Him with their hands.

So, no, as a general rule the testimony on many eyewitnesses, even verifiable ones, isn't always reliable, is it?

You act as if Peter was the only eyewitness the people would have been able to check on..

4:13] Scholars like Bart Ehrman view the Gospel as a largely historically unreliable written account by an author posthumous to the Apostle who was not an eyewitness to the historical Jesus.

In some cases» such as the Lucan account of the virgin birth or eyewitness reports about the risen Jesus» Cox mentions the troublesome passages but discourages his readers from grappling with their literal meaning and supernatural elements.

2 Given this author's care and demonstrated reliability, as well as his contact with eyewitnesses within the first generation after the events, this man can be trusted when it comes to matters in the life of Jesus for which we do not enjoy independent confirmation.

«Because some scholars have treated miracle claims in the Gospels and Acts as purely legendary on the premise that such events do not happen, I intended to challenge their instinctive dismissal of the possibility of such claims by referring to a few works that catalogued modern eyewitness claims of miracles.»

As a result, to base your «evidence» on eyewitness accounts is weak at best, and completely misleading at worst.

Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled [a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

Everything indicates that Paul himself interpreted the lightning - struck encounter with the resurrected Lord on the way to Damascus as an appearance which links his experience to the chain of eyewitness testimonies of the life of Jesus and of the resurrection (Acts 22:14, 15; 26:15 - 20).

As a result, a number of researchers are turning their attention to helping police departments and juries better understand the circ u mstances under which eyewitnesses observe crimes and later identify a suspect.»

Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed.

It's possible that the DNA could be wrong, or that the reenactment models could be off, but in the absence of any actual eyewitness (and even that testimony is not as reliable as once assumed) testimony to an event it is the best we have to go on, right?

Bater pertinently comments, «If there was that much ambiguity about the resurrection of Jesus for the eyewitnesses, on whose testimony all the succeeding ages must depend, do not the efforts twenty centuries later to establish it as demonstrable and unambiguous take on a certain comical effect?»

We take I Corinthians 15 to be our most reliable testimony to the resurrection appearances, as being the only eyewitness report we have.

All this is obvious and yet it needs to be said, if only to clear the air for a consideration of the early Christian use of a word such as «eyewitness».

they were written by eyewitnesses ---- As you've been told before, eyewitness testimony is often not dependable and often inaccurate.

The influence of such eyewitnesses would he most evident in the case of narratives of events and occasions, as distinct from collections of sayings and teaching material.

As the tradition developed and the community moved farther and farther away from eyewitness knowledge, the moment of this declaration, or designation, or installation, was moved farther and farther into the earthly life, being associated first with the transfiguration — which was itself probably an original resurrection appearance moved forward into the earthly life --

(2) The New Testament itself appeals to «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word» as authorities for the tradition (Luke 1:2), thereby showing its concern for the historical ministry of Jesus.