Sentences with phrase «testimony to the fact of»

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Comey was careful in his written testimony not to make any assertions about whether the president obstructed justice or attempted to obstruct justice in his conversations with the FBI director, outlining what he said the facts of those conversations were.

«The 33 - year - old CEO has come to terms with the fact that he will have to testify before Congress within a matter of weeks, and Facebook is currently planning the strategy for his testimony,» CNNMoney reports, citing «Facebook sources.»

Late in the hearing on Wednesday, after a combined nine hours of testimony had already happened, Congressman Chris Collins, R - N.Y., said that he was glad to finally clear up the fact that Facebook doesn't sell its user data.

«We're encouraged by the fact the level of housing starts has come down to slightly below demographic demand, as we see right now, there's still more adjustments to go,» he said in testimony to Parliament last week.

And how much was the timing of Trump's decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday's testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI's Russia probe?

The fact that the testimonies of those damaged by ex-gay teaching outnumber, seemingly 10 to 1, those changed by it point to this.

In this light it can be seen that the formulaic «testimonies» of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, while they may appear to some communally minded theologians as a manifestation of individualism, are in fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praises.

As the podcast made clear, though he apparently knew key facts related to the case, part of the reason Jay is such an interesting element of the story is that his testimony changed several times.

Thus the Book of Revelation speaks of the first resurrection of those who have been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus» referring to the Neronian martyrs, many of whom were, in fact, burned or crucified.

you posted... God is evidenced in His creation God is evidenced in His Son the Lord Jesus Christ God is evidenced in the personal testimony of His millions of followers God is evidenced in the fact that there are those that try to deny Him You said circu «mstantioal evidence is allowed.

But he also had a more general aim of establishing a Franciscan presence in the area, and the fact that the Franciscans are still the custodians of the Holy Places is an eloquent testimony to lasting power of his influence.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

These earliest testimonies thus stand in contrast to the Easter stories in the Gospels, where the empty tomb is a central fact and the appearances of Christ are thought of, in the light of this, as being in some cases bodily: involving touch as well as sight, and including eating in the presence of the disciples.

McCabe was convinced that the longstanding attempt to reconcile absolute prescience with freedom and contingency had prevented Christian theology from developing an adequate doctrine of God, one rooted in the facts of religious experience and scriptural testimony.

The average life - span in those days was around 45 years — the likelihood of any original eyewitnesses still being around to testify to the Gospel authors is extremely low, not to mention the fact that even the classical historian Josephus said that 20 years is long enough to render witness testimony useless.

The fact that Christian thought has sometimes been tempted to revert to a doctrine of God more mythological in character than that of Israel, should not hide from us the direction in which the testimony of Israel was heading.

Testimony wants to justify, to prove the good basis of an assertion which, beyond the fact, claims to attain its meaning.

Besides, in a rhetoric ruled by a logic, testimony even conceived as a relation of transpired facts, occupies necessarily an inferior place, for it shows the dependence of the judgment and of the judge with regard to something exterior: on the first level, the things spoken by another, and on the second, things seen by him.

Even in the case of the so - called «testimony of the senses,» this counts as «testimony» only if it is used to support a judgment which goes beyond the mere recording of facts.

From testimony understood in the sense of a report about facts we pass by regular transitions to attestation by action and by death.

«3 How, in fact, are we to conjoin the interiority of primary affirmation and the exteriority of acts and of existences that are said to give testimony of the absolute?

The meaning of testimony seems then inverted; the word no longer designates an action of speech, the oral report of an eyewitness about a fact to which he was witness.

I believe that a sober and instructed criticism of the Gospels justifies the belief that in their central and dominant tradition they represent the testimony of those who stood nearest to the facts, and whose life and outlook had been moulded by them.

And yet, their stories — their testimonies — go unreported because the media is largely secular and the NFL wants to keep the game largely secular despite the fact a large percentage of its employees are believers.

The second argument turned on the fact that the New Testament itself; and more especially Luke, appeals to the testimony of «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word» (Luke 1.2).

The «fact of Jesus,» in any important and really true sense, was Jesus as he was known and remembered in the community, and the testimony upon which we must rely for any knowledge of this fact must be taken as equally valid testimony to the resurrection.

We have the testimony of the Jewish sources; the fact that such stories occur in all strata of the tradition, including the two earliest, Mark and Q (criterion of multiple attestation); and the authentic Kingdom - sayings related to exorcisms, especially Matt.

Without any supporting testimony or findings of fact, Justice Kennedy managed to divine that the sponsors of the referendum and the voters who ratified it must have been motivated solely by bias.

According to ABC News, prosecutors say they were not aware of the charges against Botha and that the detective gave a «muddled» testimony, admitting that Pistorius» version of the events on the evening of the shooting did, in fact, align with the police's account.

It is a powerful testimony to the fact that He lives, that thousands of people will leave the faith of their upbringing to follow Christ.

Instead of black - and - white, Marin sees a world of color, and the deep, longtime relationships this former self - proclaimed «Bible - thumping - homophobe» has built with gays and lesbians over the years is a testimony to the fact that a more productive conservation between evangelicals and the GLBT community is indeed possible.

Further, even the abortion doctors who had testified in favor of D&X abortion in fact had never used the technique, leading Justice Kennedy to label their testimony a «courtroom conversion.»

In fact, the historian later records the anonymous, but certainly accurate, testimony that «there is nothing hidden from the king» (18:13) David always had the support of a large group of intimate and intensely loyal friends, even in the days, soon to come, of his greatest danger.

Every parent s concern for the kind of environment in which his child grows up is testimony to this fact, even though we know that we can never guarantee the quality of life which with emerge in any free person.

But to the believer the cross and resurrection are not anterior facts awaiting subsequent evaluation and interpretation: for him faith is something given «in with and under» the testimony of the cross and resurrection.

Paul's success in Corinth is testimony to the fact that the right place for the church is in the midst of the wicked and ungodly.

The jury must determine whether the facts of the case as established by testimony in court fit the legal definition of the offense with which the defendant is charged — a definition likely to be complicated at best, incomprehensible at worst.

We have four first century books describing the alleged facts of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, but only one, (maybe), claims to be an eyewitness testimony.

In other words, Banerjea wants to attest to the Divine mission of Jesus by pointing to the miracles that «the unblemished character» performed, which in turn are «proved facts» because they have been «attested by strongest possible testimony» by «witnesses whose competence has been proved by peculiar ordeal.»

As a christian apologist, Chad, has 2000 years of «facts and testimony» to draw on to defend the delusion, not to the degree of proof or evidence; only to the point that a whole lot of people bought into the scam, therefore the scam is true based on the bible, why, because a 2000 year old book, that very same bible says so, which completes the circle.

The finding of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that the registration by plaintiff's predecessor of the trade - mark had been fraudulently obtained, was based on the fact that in the application for registration, it was stated that applicant's use of the name «Tabasco» had been exclusive, whereas the testimony showed that several other manufacturers, during the preceding ten years, had, to its knowledge, used the word in connection with pepper sauce.

It is no surprise that two of the Gunners» most creative players, Mesut Ozil and Santi Cazorla, have both had a massive dip in form and have failed to have a significant impact on the games they have played, a fact which also happens to have statistical testimony.

And again, if the same set of facts is at issue (requiring the same witnesses and same testimony), then it may in fact be worth the Senate's effort to revise their procedural rules to make this possible.

«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.

In his testimony, Blake seemed oblivious to the fact that he filed attested to the accuracy of the wrong tax forms.

Mangano lawyer Kevin Keating of Garden City declined on Saturday to answer questions but said in a prepared statement: «Mr. Mangano is merely a fact witness in the Skelos matter and if called to testify he will provide truthful testimony, even though Mr. Mangano has engaged in no wrongdoing.

The fact that several leading members support this dynastic project is testimony to the fact that we have lost our way and probably the spirit of our cause».

«Between Attorney General Sessions's false testimony and the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman working with the White House to kill stories about Russian contacts, we need to get all of the facts.»

The councillors» counsel, Zi, in his reaction to the judgement, described the stance of the appeal court justices as «very satisfactory and a further testimony to the fact that there was hope for the common man».

The New York State Public Employment Relations Board has appointed a three - member fact - finding panel that will take testimony, hold hearings and issue a report and recommendations in an effort to resolve the contract dispute between the New York City Department of Education and the UFT.