Sentences with phrase «as unreliable witnesses»

The man a high court judge notoriously dismissed as an unreliable witness, whose famously fastidious attention to detail was such that when it came to making the case for the most serious foreign policy decision since Suez, he was perfectly content to sling out some 12 - year - old guff he'd lifted straight off the internet.

They appeared to abandon that strategy in their summation, instead attacking Mr. Dorego as an unreliable witness who had sought to profit from the younger Mr. Skelos's political connections, and suggesting the government had helped him fabricate his testimony.

Not exact matches

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

If you walked those four stories into court, all of the witnesses would be discredited as unreliable.

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

The defense team also portrayed the prosecution's star witness and disgraced former lobbyist Todd Howe as unreliable.

This makes her an important but completely unreliable witness once the young Mrs. Hipwell disappears, leaving behind a trail of secrets, as alienated women are wont to do in thrillers that have Girl in the title.

But in her judgment at the end of August, Mrs Justice Gloster dismissed the claim, finding Berezovsky to be «an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes».

Today, in federal district court in Wichita, Judge Monti Belot is holding a hearing, at which a government expert will apparently try to convince the judge that two defense witnesses should be precluded from testifying at trial, as «Rwandan witnesses are inherently unreliable because they're controlled by the government of the African nation.»

In withering language the judge found Berezovsky to be an unimpressive, inherently unreliable witness who, ``... regarded the truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes», and would have said «almost anything» to support his case.

rejected the applicant's testimony as «self - serving and generally not forthright,» and considered him a «an unreliable and unbelievable witness»; [DC at 31]

Such differences in answers to the question seeking specific information should not be interpreted as indicative of an unreliable witness.