Sentences with phrase «unreliable witnesses at»

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.

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.

The psychologists agreed with Perry's attorney that the witness's memory was so unreliable that the judge should have held a pretrial hearing to determine whether it should be admissible at all.

The film is a legal thriller that has all the elements: missing evidence, unreliable witnesses, a drawn out investigation, and courtroom scenes that should have those in the legal profession laughing themselves silly at their inaccuracies.

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.»

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