For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

Other witnesses, after appearances before the jury, which reportedly is probing into possible income tax violations, disclosed that government prosecutors were attempting to connect Stein and his company with a number of gangsters, including Glimco and Alex.

biographer ) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

The Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) at the “ General Church ” level consists of a number of self-governing agencies, which focus upon specific Christian witnesses to the world that have emerged in the dialog within the movement since before the first convention in 1849.

# " Bringing to justice thousands of victims and giving them a voice ", pointing out the large number of witnesses that had been brought before the Tribunal ;

The sheer number of witnesses presents unique difficulties, but it also gives scholars a better idea of how close modern Bibles are to the original versions.

Unlike trusts, wills must be signed by two to three witnesses, the number depending on state law.

If he were one of the uninitiated it was necessary for him to bring forward witnesses to his innocence from among the initiated, whose number varied according to the number on the side of the accuser, but twenty-one in favour of innocence necessarily secured an acquittal.

The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play " D and D " (" deaf and dumb "), accepting their subservient position rather than risk the danger and shame of informing.

Sometimes, after a number of witnesses have been deposed, the parties will have enough information that they can reasonably predict the outcome of a prospective trial, and may decide to arrive at a compromise settlement, thus avoiding trial and preventing additional costs of litigation.

In an unusual proceeding, he took written and oral testimony from a number of witnesses over more than a month.

Finally, they assure that the proceedings have a number of witnesses.

Anthony Burgess was among a number of writers who appeared as witnesses in defense of the novel.

And in the 1949-1950 trials a number of witnesses gave testimony during the investigation which they recanted at the trial, leaving conflicting testimonies.

--- A number of witnesses had testified that the Germans drove the group of Jewish victims from Jedwabne ’ s town square to the barn where they were killed ( these testimonies are found in the expanded 203-page ‘ Findings ’ published in June 2003 ).

This document included the name of the presiding magistrate, the place of the assembly, the dates involved, the number of senators who were present at time the motion was passed, the names of witnesses to the drafting of the motion, and the substance of the act.

Eclectic readings also normally give an impression of the number of witnesses to each available reading.

" They also argued that " Readings are approved or rejected by reason of the quality, and not the number, of their supporting witnesses ", and that " The reading is to be preferred that most fitly explains the existence of the others.

" That is, if two witnesses have a number of errors in common, it may be presumed that they were derived from a common intermediate source, called a hyparchetype.

He told the judge and media outlets he intended to call a number of witnesses that would prove his innocence, including a ballistic expert, a handwriting expert and two regular eyewitnesses, but that they were afraid to come forward and take the stand.

The Miller – Rabin primality test and Solovay – Strassen primality test are more sophisticated variants which detect all composites ( once again, this means: for every composite number n, at least 3 / 4 ( Miller – Rabin ) or 1 / 2 ( Solovay – Strassen ) of numbers a are witnesses of compositeness of n ).

When the number n to be tested is small, trying all a < 2 ( ln n )< sup > 2 </ sup > is not necessary, as much smaller sets of potential witnesses are known to suffice.

If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.

It has been observed through a variety of environments that as the level of abiotic stress increases, the number of species decreases.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animal species ; a number of bird species have been observed manufacturing and using tools, and many social species exhibit cultural transmission of knowledge across generations.

Within the prevailing Standard Model of particle physics, the number of baryons may change in multiples of three due to the action of sphalerons, although this is rare and has not been observed under experiment.

Some grand unified theories of particle physics also predict that a single proton can decay, changing the baryon number by one ; however, this has not yet been observed under experiment.

Ninety – four different chemical elements or types of atoms based on the number of protons are observed on earth naturally, having at least one isotope that is stable or has a very long half-life.

( see figure ) The effect was observed to be independent of parameters such as the system size and impurities, and in 1981, theorist Robert Laughlin proposed a theory describing the integer states in terms of a topological invariant called the Chern number.

Clergyman Bartolomé de Las Casas observed a number of massacres initiated by the invaders as the Spanish swept over the island, notably the massacre near Camagüey of the inhabitants of Caonao.

Certain elements have no stable isotopes and are composed only of radioactive isotopes: specifically the elements without any stable isotopes are technetium ( atomic number 43 ), promethium ( atomic number 61 ), and all observed elements with atomic numbers greater than 82.

Cryptography professor Arjen Lenstra observed that " Last time, it took nine years for us to generalize from a special to a nonspecial, hard-to-factor number " and when asked whether 1024-bit RSA keys are dead, said: " The answer to that question is an unqualified yes.

Once the ray either encounters a light source, or more probably once a set limiting number of bounces has been evaluated, then the surface illumination at that final point is evaluated using techniques described above, and the changes along the way through the various bounces evaluated to estimate a value observed at the point of view.

Another difference between the low-inclination ( cold ) and high-inclination ( hot ) classical objects is the observed number of binary objects.

From the psychiatry literature, coprophagia has been observed in a small number of patients with schizophrenia, depression, and pica.

This leads to the Great Filter, which notes that since there are no observed extraterrestrial civilizations, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.

Einsteinium is the element with the highest atomic number which has been observed in macroscopic quantities in its pure form, and this was the common short-lived isotope einsteinium-253.

Returning to London in 1811, Jenner observed a significant number of cases of smallpox after vaccination.

This definition describes the entropy as being proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of possible microscopic configurations of the individual atoms and molecules of the system ( microstates ) which could give rise to the observed macroscopic state ( macrostate ) of the system.

The relative frequency of occurrence of an event, observed in a number of repetitions of the experiment, is a measure of the probability of that event.

Kekulé argued for his proposed structure by considering the number of isomers observed for derivatives of benzene.

At least 34 isotopes of hafnium have been observed, ranging in mass number from 153 to 186.

Around the turn from the 18th to the 19th century an increase of the number of Catholics was observed, because military personnel had been moved from West Prussia to the town.

The number of rules observed varies with the order ; Theravada bhikkhus follow around 227 rules.