How To Use Probative In A Sentence
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Such evidence can have sufficient probative force to make it just to admit it even though, taken by itself, it would not be sufficient to prove guilt.
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Yes, but no single piece of circumstantial evidence ever is completely probative of the ultimate fact.
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Certainly, where the evidence in question is equivocal, in the sense of ambiguous and uncertain and conjectural in nature, the probative force is of such diminished significance as to be valueless.
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Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur?
Almayer's Folly
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approbative criticism
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Given my conclusion that only the comments of the deceased declarants Belanger and Kane meet both the necessity and reliability criteria, it may be that their remarks have limited probative value, and could be taken out of context.
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In my view, when the admissibility of demonstrative evidence is in issue, in many cases, a traditional analysis of probative value really misses the point.
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Never had he been more critical, more approbative.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
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As it stands the evidence is insufficient to have probative value.
THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
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The new president of the university arose and eyed him with a peculiarly approbative and grateful gaze.
The Titan
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Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur?
Almayer's Folly
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Again, standing alone this evidence is not probative of any discrimination in the local construction industry....
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These views go against professional means playing their roles, weaken the probative force of professional means, and influence the efficiency of legal actions.
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Certainly, where the evidence in question is equivocal, in the sense of ambiguous and uncertain and conjectural in nature, the probative force is of such diminished significance as to be valueless.
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Its probative value outweighs the prejudicial effect it might have on the trial of the Defendant.
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Frequently, a sketch, a map, a chart, a graph, a computerized illustration or even a photograph really has no probative value at all.
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This time I smiled in good earnest at his fantastic fashion of self-introduction, observing which the blue gentleman swayed me backwards and forwards several times with his right hand, and I felt that if I had been an oak of the forest he would have swayed me just as easily, while he said with a kind of approbative chuckle: 'That's right -- a very good lad; that's right -- a very smart lad.'
Marjorie
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And the approbative shouts of his half-intoxicated auditors filled his simple soul with delight and pride.
Almayer's Folly
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I will allow this evidence to be received as its probative value clearly outweighs its prejudicial effect.
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What appears in paragraph 19 is not probative on what it says beyond the document annexed to it.
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‘The prejudicial effect would far outweigh the probative value,’ he added alliteratively.
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Moreover, its impact on the trial process must be weighed carefully: its probative value must not be overborne by its prejudicial effect.
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This concern does not arise in a trial by judge alone such that the probative value of the evidence is outweighed by its prejudicial effect.
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These terms are neither approbative nor disapprobative in themselves.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism and Culture
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In a tremulous state of dissatisfaction with himself — that any such grisly thought should have dared to obtrude itself upon him in this way — he got up and lit the lamp — re-read this disconcerting item in as cold and reprobative way as he could achieve, feeling that in so doing he was putting anything at which it hinted far from him once and for all.
An American Tragedy
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It is evidence directly probative of the fact that they were accomplices.
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Although confession has the unique and important probative value to prove the fact of law cases, it is obvious mistake to extort confession by torture.
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The judge must determine the probative value of the evidence by assessing its tendency to prove a fact in issue in the case including the credibility of witness.
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A more concise, equally accurate but less approbative way of putting this would be simply that he "smokes.
The Recount Culture
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Though most of these meanings are admittedly not approbative, the first sense, ‘undiluted,’ may carry with it the suggestion of primal energy.
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If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
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Precisely because prison is an instrument of punishment in the retributivist view, and retributive punishment must be proportionate in some reprobative way to the degree of harm which the offender caused, a retributive sentence of imprisonment must not be excessive, must have definite limits.
Prisons & Punishment
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If the first, then they cannot intend any but those moral powers who are said to be of God, in respect of his approbative and preceptive will.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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If I were someone else, likely the first approbative thing I'd say is, ‘I really like his cooking.’
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Since the accomplice have the direct relation mutually, the probative force of their oral confession is weak and need to be further corroborated.
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Of these three kinds of ethics the third, the approbative, is the one held in situation ethics.
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In ordinary life it is rare indeed for people to form their beliefs by a process of logical deduction from facts ascertained by a rigorous search for all available evidence and a judicious assessment of its probative value.
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God is to be overthrown, then providence must be expressive of God's approbative ordination, equally as his revealed will is.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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According to the ongoing, unscientific-but-probative 2010 TSE Poll, asked to select their top five reasons for applying to a creative writing program from a list of fifteen possibilities, only three reasons appeared on even half of respondents 'lists (the number in parentheses is the percentage of respondents who ranked that program feature among their top five considerations):
Seth Abramson: The New Face of the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts
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The speaker, in choosing a pejorative term rather than an approbative term (say, ‘willowy’), manifests disapproval of ‘she.’
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evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect
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Likewise, persons who have taken poisonous, or large [338] probative quantities of Camphor found themselves quickly affected by exhausting choleraic diarrhoea; and
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Even if the original Final Report were entered into evidence, and even if the memoranda from the FBI, the FCC, and the ONI were also admitted, Fahy would have been clever enough to dis-credit that evidence as irrelevant, not probative, taken out of context, not sufficiently expert, or simply a minority report.
Is That Legal?: Who's to Blame?
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All of this proceeds on the basis that hearsay evidence is probative and, therefore, relevant.
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A point worth emphasizing is the stress that Galileo places on the analytic or resolutive procedure as strongly sug - gestive, though falling far short of probative demon - stration.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Law-officer and both parties should not outweigh the appraisal conclusion's probative value in lawsuit.
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If then this distinction is denied, and the providential will of God asserted to be declarative of his preceptive, and so of his approbative will; it remains to be manifested, where and how it has been appointed of God for such an end, an end that is by the Spirit of God denied unto it: _Eccl. _ ix, 1, 2, 4.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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Again, standing alone this evidence is not probative of any discrimination in the local construction industry....
