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How To Use informant In A Sentence

• Informants give you information in the public interest and say that their career, liberty or life depend on keeping their name confidential. Public interest should trump self-interest | Nick Cohen
• Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information.
• The claimants sought to recover overtime pay in respect of the time they spent dealing with informants outside their normal hours. Times, Sunday Times
• Police informants could be at risk of reprisals. Times, Sunday Times
• Because you don't say 'Ain't nobody ever gonna find a body' when you're talking about a living child," said prosecutor Connie Spence, referring to a jailhouse informant's testimony about a statement Fountain allegedly made. Homepage CP Container
• The former involve a description of linguistic structures, usually based on utterances elicited from native-speaking informants.
• The government had some foreknowledge from an informant as well as the buzz of rumours, but there had been so many rumours and false alarms that at first it did not take it seriously.
• Our survey is based on information from over 200 informants.
• The ethnographer becomes more than participant-observer, the informants more than informants, resulting in a hybrid text that is more than/other than ethnography.