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- give testimony in a court of law
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provide evidence for
Her behavior testified to her incompetence
The blood test showed that he was the father
How To Use bear witness In A Sentence
- So the cycle of blame and retaliation continues, unrelieved and unrelieving, as history and today's newspaper bear witness.
- The numerous awards on the walls bear witness to his great success.
- It has never ceased to amaze me, even as a public order specialist, the amount of fight in your average chavette, my nads bear witness to the unerving accuracy of their best saturday night stilletto. I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- Doesn't the imbroglio with the European Constitution bear witness to the same puzzlement: Which Europe do we want?
- The Mutawas, clothed in self-righteousness, were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment.
- As Dyer reminds us, we have historically valued stars who appear to ‘bear witness to the continuousness of their own selves’, given that ‘sincerity and authenticity are two qualities greatly prized in stars’.
- In one of the salutational recitations ziyaraat we address them saying: ‘…I bear witness that most surely Allah unveiled for you the curtain….’ Archive 2008-02-01
- Without the public good we're all dead -- Right and Left -- as the agonies from the Spanish Inquisition to Auschwitz to the Gulag to Pol Pot to Ruanda to Darfur bear witness. Dan Agin: Why the Right in America is Dead
- At a wedding, the assembled throng is there to bear witness to two people's choice to join their lives together. Times, Sunday Times
- These memories bear witness not to the importance of financial success for the individual but of a person's existence in a context which affirms and sustains them.