Sentences with phrase «serves as testimony»

The series serves as testimony to the idea that learning is most effective as a partnership among communities, schools, teachers, children, and the parents who love them.

Their experiences serve as testimony for treating mental disorders with the stigmatized drugs, though Shroder makes it clear that altering society's perception of psychedelics is a formidable task.

After graduating, the dog - guardian teams become project ambassadors — visiting villages and schools to educate others about the importance of being kind to animals, teach them to use positive reinforcement training techniques and «serve as testimony of the healing power of human - dog bonds.»

Presenting notable accomplishments serve as a testimony of your sales competencies.

Not exact matches

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

As we've pointed out already, his written testimony is pretty selective and self - serving in terms of what he does and doesn't include in his version of events.

«In the first place we must remember,» says Bromiley, «that the Bible is not to be abstracted from Christ and made the center of unity in its own right... Unity is grounded in Christ himself and... it is served by the Bible when the Bible is understood in clear relationship to Christ as the authoritative prophetic and apostolic testimony... We may go to the Bible with very different views of what it is and how it is to be understood or applied.

It was a pioneering feat of simply outstanding quality, testimony for which is seen in the fact that it served as the basic text - book of early human history for more than two and a half thousand years.

The second embodiment of testimony is the king who also serves as God's mediator.

With just more than 24 hours to go before James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony, President Donald Trump found someone willing to serve as the new director of the FBI: a former Justice Department official named Christopher Wray.

Federal prosecutors recommended that David Wildstein, who has described himself as the mastermind of the so - called Bridgegate scandal, serve no prison time as a result of his testimony against his co-conspirators, which followed his guilty plea.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A federal jury hearing testimony on Tuesday was served a steady diet of «ziti,» the word prosecutors say a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo used as code to refer to bribe payments he received to push forward projects for three businessmen.

Wednesday's testimony also included mentions of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who Singh said he met through Nassau County Democratic Party vice chairman Thomas Garry in 2011 or 2012 when de Blasio was serving as the city's public advocate.

During testimony, he explained how he and Silver came to work out an arrangement whereby Taub referred patients with cancer to Sheldon Silver who, in addition to serving as Assembly speaker, also worked as «Of Counsel» at a private law firm.

That testimony led to an investigation by the Bronx District Attorney and the charges that led to Castro's agreement to serve as an informant.

«In the face of such orders and the ethical dilemmas to which they give rise, medical professionals likely would decline to serve as expert witnesses in lethal injection cases in the first place, robbing the parties and the courts of appropriate expert testimony that would assist them in accurately adjudicating the important constitutional issues this and similar cases present,» the authors write in the brief.

To reenact the dialogue, the plaintiffs simply read the scripts of their testimonies as the stark documents conveying intense court dialogue fill the screen, a trope that serves some immediacy back to the audience.

Every new scene invites a single - serving character whose testimony doesn't so much shift the goalposts as suggest that Doc has, up until that point, been playing the wrong game.

Photos and snippets of survivor testimony serve as reminders of the cost of prejudice and discrimination.

There will be tents and tables in the parking lot all day that will serve as a homebase for people giving testimony and showing up to support public schools.)

Moore closed out her testimony with a plea to Congress to listen to educators as they consider the future of the landmark legislation: «Teachers are as unique as the students they serve.

She also has served as an invited expert on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and was invited to present testimony before the federal Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives.

Subpoenas for the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of written or other matter may be issued in accordance with the rules of the Commission as contained in section 102 (j) and (k) of this Act, over the signature of the Chairman of the Commission or of such subcommittee, and may be served by any person designated by such Chairman.

Combining photographs, videos, and testimonies from fellow community members, Wanderlust Travel Magazine serves as a digital scrapbook to help travelers store planning information and discover some of the finest destinations in the world.

Retrieved from the streets, from the Internet or from the world of museums, they serve as tragicomic testimonies of our processes of adaptation in a capitalistic environment.

He has been known to state such sentences as I will not make any more boring art and I think it's brilliant: making art look like it's not about skill — these and many more serve as a bulletproof evidence and testimony of John's already legendary sense of humour.

This exhibition — like her life in art — was about womanhood, and it served as a living will of sorts, a testimony to her belief in the power of contemporary art and the power of women in art.

Photos can lend weight to Congressional testimonies, convince hordes of people to sign petitions, and serve as damning evidence in oil spills.

So the vociferous denunciations, the smears, the bullying — all served as eloquent testimony that climate science, whatever else might be said, mattered intensely.

On one hand, Andrew Fastow — who served up his wife as a sacrifical lamb for his embezzlement of millions from Enron that triggered one of the largest bankruptcy cases in U.S. history, who used the NatWest Three to hide his embezzlement of millions more and then turned on the U.K. bankers to save his skin, who very well may have forged Richard Causey's initials on the Global Galatic «agreement,» whose bizarre testimony during the Lay - Skilling trial was largely discounted by jurors and who had a large hand in ruining the careers of four innocent Merrill Lynch executives in order to lessen his prison sentence — is sentenced to six years in prison.

The Daubert test requires that the trial judge serve as gatekeeper for any expert scientific testimony and determine whether it can be admitted.

Other testimonies will serve to answer the question as to whether he will be accused and convicted of previous mentions too.

«I think that, fairly read, the lower courts should take away from today's opinion that the Court is serious about the right to confrontation and that statements describing past incidents to law enforcement agents can not serve as a substitute for live testimony at criminal trials.»

As litigators, it's our job to make sure (1) the expert report is accurate and comprehensive to the needed expert testimony that serves the client's litigation needs and (2) that the expert is well prepared to be deposed and then testify on the subject matter of that report.

Toni McKee provides a wonderful service for attorneys through her business, which educates and serves as analyst, case supporter, medical liaison, expert testimony, and more.

What purpose it serves is to preserve testimony as evidence, since some cases can last years.

We regularly provide expert testimony and have served as court appointed experts in connection with professional service litigation.

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

• Confer with clients and attorneys to acquire information of committed crime • Analyze facts and ensure that they are documented properly • Conduct investigations to support the legal defense of a wide variety of criminal cases • Contact external agencies and expert witnesses as reference resources for potential testimony • Serve subpoenas on those required to testify or submit evidence before the court • Operate and maintain a variety of photographic and projection equipment to assist in criminal investigation • Handle potentially explosive situations with tact, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all people involved • Create and submit reports regarding findings such as statements, scene descriptions and analysis of physical evidence

If the therapist would not be available to testify on the date of trial, an attorney may serve a subpoena upon the mental health professional to attend what is called a de bene esse deposition, which is a deposition for the purpose of preparing and using a transcript of the deposition in court as testimony.