Sentences with phrase «leading the witness»

Stop trying to lead the witness as though you have valid proof!
He is ranked 10th, which makes top 10 seem a little misguided or leading the witness type junk, but 10th seems fair to me.
Mrs. Evelyn Keelson, Chief State Attorney led the witness to give his evidence on what he experienced on that fateful day.
Dake, previously a stand - up guy himself (albeit a bit of a stiff), has just shut down an interview with Ira Schirmer, a lead witness in their case against Bobby Axelrod... because Schirmer is now offering testimony against his former friend, and their colleague, Chuck Rhoades, instead.
Rose attempted to elicit a statement from the Met Office by asking a question which would be described in court as «leading the witness»:
@KennyBrendan @mitchjackson the challenge is to ask open ended questions that lead the witness to the answer you seek.
My preparation means that I can lead my witness into a maze that only I know how to get him out of.
Prepare for Paperless Lawyering — One of a new lawyer's first jobs in a firm may be to review discovery documents in a pending case and write a synopsis or prepare for a deposition of a lead witness.
What attendees have seen on TV courtroom dramas, eg counsel approaching the witness box or counsel leading the witness through examination in chief, has usually confused more than clarified matters.
as one leads a witness through a chronological book of documents.
Such was the case early during the third day of the Competition Tribunal hearing between The Commissioner of Competition and the Toronto Real Estate Board, as TREB lawyer Donald Affleck revealed that the Competition Bureau's lead witness, Viewpoint Realty, has been the subject of about two dozen annual complaints concerning privacy.

Not exact matches

We are now witnessing the aggressive seeding of the clouds that may lead all too quickly to that fog of war.
Japan is witnessing a historic surge in tourist arrivals leading up to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
After witnessing a 95 % decline in the pharmaceutical company's share price amid a series of scandals, Valeant's board, led by former shareholder and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, smartly tied Papa's compensation to a recovery in the stock price.
As an advisor with a traditional wealth management firm, Ahluwalia witnessed a burgeoning need, which led him to co-found National Social Security Partners, a national network of advisors that provide outsourced Social Security income - maximization planning to clients of CPAs, law firms and banks.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.
Jacobs recanted some of his assertions as a witness in a November court hearing, leading a top Uber lawyer to describe the letter as an effort at «extortion.»
Redstone responded to his lawyer's leading queries crisply, according to witnesses and a transcript of the hearing.
Recently we have witnessed the birth of Pop - Up Stores 2.0, led primarily by a number of high flying e-commerce pure plays hoping to drive market awareness.
The answer comes immediately to anyone who witnessed Trump's campaign rhetoric, or the lead - in to Brexit: immigration.
This also led to a decrease of the transaction fees, because the network was not overloaded, even before the implementation of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol by major exchanges.
In fact, Judge Alsup allowed Dunn to ask «leading questions,» wherein an attorney prompts the witness with the desired answer.
It's a small nuance, but when you are questioning a witness who is aligned with your side you are not typically allowed to ask leading questions.
Eight of the ten sectors have witnessed a decline in earnings growth rates since that date, led by the Materials, Information Technology, and Industrials sectors.
One of the leading proposals for addressing the issue is Segregated Witness, a protocol that reduces the size of a transaction, therefore allowing more of them to be included in blocks which means more transactions.
Founder and President, Tracy Becker, a Certified Expert Credit Witness, Certified Fico Professional, and established author (check out her latest book, Credit Score Power), has lead her team to improve the overall financial condition of thousands of companies over the years, improving their credit, saving them millions of dollars, and providing seminars and counseling to educate them on building and maintaining excellent credit scores.
This could lead to stock and bond market volatility during the second half of this year that dwarfs what we've witnessed over the past two months.
It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.
The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.
Benedict calls Immanuel Kant, of all people, to the witness stand in making the case that trying to build the «Kingdom of God» without God leads to the «perverse end» of all things.
... the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now... but the Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words... In Romans 8, St. Paul's witness leads into the mysterious depths of the Paraclete's ceaseless intercession for the church and all creation.
Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.
By comparison, Open Doors, a leading advocate for the persecuted church which verifies every death through witnesses when possible, counted just 1,207 Christians killed for faith - related reasons during the reporting period for its 2017 World Watch List.
«Troops fired shots to allow the singers to leave first as thousands of people were already pushing to leave through the stadium's only exit, which led to shoving and trampling,» said a witness.
«We are confident we can choose leaders who are qualified to lead InterVarsity's witnessing communities throughout the Cal State system.
The missing link that pastors MUST NOW witness and lead prophetic thinking about is China.
We have heard William Miller's call to the faithful to prepare for Christ's coming on October 22, 1844; Jehovah's Witnesses» declaration that Christ returned invisibly and spiritually in 1914; and Herbert Armstrong's prediction that the end would come in January 1972 — an announcement that led many members of his World Wide Church of God to sell their possessions in preparation for going to Petra (Wadi Musa) in Jordan, believed to be a place of safety for the elect.
We shall see how the unresolved issues in the New Testament witness have led to centuries of further search for the meaning of the love of God.
The Conference Message declares:»... many expressions of mission lead to unethical forms of coercion and proselytism which neither recognize the integrity of the local churches nor are sensitive to local cultures... We therefore commit ourselves to promote common witness and to renounce proselytism and all forms of mission which destroy the unity of the body of Christ.»
The reflection on this scriptural self - witness and our continuing experience with the text lead to our confession of the nature of Scripture.
The leading question in every course dealing with any subject matter must be this: How does this subject matter (be it «logic, or Mexican - American history, or the sociology of religion») contribute to assessing the validity of Christian witness?
On the other hand, if they are to treat it with full seriousness they must also trace home its metaphysical leadings and ask what final sense can be made of the witness.
As a cure for this sick state of affairs, Dykstra leads his readers through four fields of homiletical play: playing with the text, playing witness to life, playing with strangers and playing with fire.
The awareness of this gift should perhaps have led him to witness to the Reformed heritage and its fundamental convictions with a little more gratitude and care.
In particular, judgments about the faithfulness (historical theology) or the truth (philosophical theology) of Christian witness must presuppose and take into account (and not simply lead into) analysis of the context of that witness and its fittingness to that context (cf. 50).
The indigenously led churches do not require foreign workers in administration, and the absence of any confessed strategy of witness and evangelism to the overwhelming Muslim majority would seem to minimize opportunities for foreigners to be useful.
This freedom leads to death, as witnessed most recently by President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial - birth abortions.»
It is impossible to witness the thousands who flock together here on this occasion as wholly given to idolatry, so blindly led to the service of dumb idols, and all of this in the name of Christianity, without feeling one's spirit stirred within one.»
Joe Catholic employer being allowed to exclude coverage and deny all forms of contraception to his employees on moral grounds leads DIRECTLY to John Jehovah's Witness employer denying coverage for blood transfusions for his employees.
And proclamation leads to mission, since those who have genuinely heard the preaching are impelled to act upon it in such a way that in what they say, think, and do there is a witness to which testimony is given and a task to which they are called.
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